Jennie J. Jones’s Updates

  • Update 3: ASU's Study Hall removes barriers, but is it the answer we need for access to higher learning?

     
    Figure X: Education overcomes all walls, if one has access. [Screenshot]. From https://bit.ly/3LnIfrO

    Criticism abounds for new educational disruptor programs that attempt to change the way we approach higher education. It is to be expected...More

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  • Update 2: Theoretical Underpinnings of Social Capital and Mobility to Higher Education

    Media embedded September 11, 2023

    Video 1: Jack, Anthony. [TEDx Talks]. (2019 June 13). On Diversity: Access Ain't Inclusion [Video]. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7w2Gv7ueOc&t=186s

    When we think about the ubiquity of higher educ...More

  • Update 1: Student-facing Analytics

    Fig.1. Aster plot analytics tool in CG Scholar. [Screenshot]. From https://bit.ly/7StepsCope
     
     

    One of the most impactful learning technologies in current use is that of student-facing analytics within learning managements systems such as th...More

  • Jones' Oral Presentation: The Cake Is a Lie: Learning Design in Portal

    Video 1: Oral Presentation: Portal's Game Design for Learning

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  • Update 1: Chocolate Covered Broccoli: Game Design in Education to Improve Executive Function

    Figure 1: Executive Functioning. [Screenshot]. From https://statenislandletters.com/what-is-executive-functioning-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

    More often than I would like to admit, I have had parent conferences where a parent is typically beyo...More

  • Update 6: Moving Away from Didactic Pedagogy to More Authentic Learning

    New technological skills and trends are often held tightly in the hands of students, while schools trail behind somewhere in the 19th or 20th Centuries. The practice of didactic teaching, where the students face forward and listen passively to the "...More

  • 1A Update: Does PBIS Promote Equity in K-12 Schools?

     

    Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an evidence-based, tiered framework for supporting students’ behavioral, academic, social, emotional, and mental health.(“What is PBIS?’ 2020). This nationally popular program purports...More