The Invention of Failure Tuesday, January 20, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Open to the public. Light dinner provided. PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge John Hope Franklin Humanities […]
Archive | January, 2015
Photograph by FI Fellow Kalle Westerling featured in the New York Times
Congratulations to Futures Initiative fellow, Kalle Westerling, whose photograph was recently featured in the New York Times. You can read the full article here.
Mix it Up! How Equity Can Enhance Innovation–and How #FuturesEd Works Toward Those Goals
We’re all abuzz here with conversation, analysis, dismay, and all the rest about a recent article in the Atlantic that paints a grim picture of the way even the City […]
Equity, Innovation, and Higher Ed as a Public Good
UPDATE: CUNY has responded to Hancock and Kolodner’s article, requesting its withdrawal based on many significant factual errors. Here are my thoughts on that development. As I described in an […]
The dialectics of dreams and failure: racialized violence as higher education’s “crisis ordinariness”
Update 1/14: Although it doesn’t change the fact that standardized tests are a form of institutional racism that exacerbate unequal access to education, a recent letter to the editor of […]
NYU Event, Jan 15, HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities
HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities Thursday January 15, 5:00- 6:30, reception to follow; books available for sale. Jurow Lecture Hall at New York University Silver Center, Room […]
The Invention of Failure
What if we got rid of “flunk out courses” that were defined as “rigorous and demanding” and, instead, set our goal as ensuring the success of every student in equally […]
Collaborative Learning for a Digital Age
This is an excerpt from Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking, 2011). It was published, in […]
Six Reasons Why the Three-Year Degree is a Terrible Idea
In September 2013, I was invited to conduct a workshop on “Transforming Higher Education for the Digital Age” at a Carnegie Institute symposium on The Future of Higher Education. After […]
