Job Announcements, News

Job: ERA Chair – Cultural Data Analytics, Tallinn University

From the ad: Tallinn University (TLU) seeks an internationally recognized leader in digital humanities to fill the ERA Chair in Cultural Data Analytics… ERA Chair position is planned for a Leading Researcher (R4) in order to complement Tallinn University (TLU) existing research expertise in digital culture studies and data analytics. The candidate is expected to […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Digital Pedagogy Lab Toronto

From the announcement: On October 15, 2018, Digital Pedagogy Lab opened registration for a new event in 2019: Digital Pedagogy Lab Toronto. The Lab in Toronto will take place March 18-20, and will feature six courses, brand new workshops, great food, and a uniquely intimate environment that will feature smaller cohorts, cozier spaces, and close […]

News, Resources

Resource: Ranke.2 – Source Criticism in the Digital Age

About the resource: The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History C2DH is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Luxembourg. It serves as a national platform for debating topical issues in contemporary Luxembourgish history and for advancing the development and training of digital literacy among students and researchers at the University of Luxembourg. […]

News, Reports

Report: Twitter Use at #WHA2018

From the report: For the past few years following the Western History Association’s annual meeting I’ve been collecting Twitter analytics on users that tweet with the conference hashtag. We just wrapped up #wha2018 and it’s time to see what’s in the data. We spent the week in San Antonio, which, strangly enough, was colder than […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Learning Technologies and Digital Humanities Associate Director, UVA

From the ad: The Contemplative Sciences Center (CSC) is hiring a Learning Technologies and Digital Humanities Associate Director. The Contemplative Science Center’s mission is to explore via teaching, research, and engagement diverse forms of learning and whole student education which integrate the academic and the personal. A key component of this work concerns digital technology […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor of Culture and Media, The New School

From the ad: Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, an undergraduate college of The New School, invites applications to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning July 2019 in the Culture and Media Department. We seek candidates specializing in the study of race in culture and media. In this program, students consider media (including print, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Machine Teaching, Machine Learning, and the History of the Future of Public Education

These are my prepared remarks, delivered on a panel titled “Outsourcing the Classroom to Ed Tech & Machine-learning: Why Parents & Teachers Should Resist” at the Network for Public Education conference in Indianapolis. The other panelists were Peter Greene and Leonie Haimson. I had fifteen minutes to speak; clearly this is more than I could […]