Jade E. Davis is the associate director for digital learning in the Center for Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia Community College CUNY. She has a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in communication studies with a focus on media, technology, and culture. Her research looks at how digital media affects how society makes, understands, and accepts knowledge and culture. More specifically, she is interested in spaces that make digital information into knowledge and culture and the ethics and ownership of the data traces that are left behind. She is a former member of the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at Duke University’s Program Coordinator for the Digital Media and Learning Competition at HASTAC, and former Ph.D. intern with Microsoft Research New England’s Social Media Collective.
Jade E. Davis
Articles
December 11, 2017
From Tech Engagement to Tech Scholars
One of the reasons I was very excited to join a community college is because there is a gap in how we think about bringing digital media and technology into learning. While...
Categories: Educational Practice, EquityNovember 6, 2017
The Importance of Student Privacy in Big Data
I’ve written in the past about understanding the Terms of sites you are asking students to use and been interviewed about the implications of social media in classes. This year, one of...
Category: Digital CitizenshipAugust 23, 2017
Frugal Innovation in Digital Learning
I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on what makes a good and accessible digital assignment for faculty and teachers who are not comfortable with digital tools but open to learning and...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityApril 27, 2017
How Can VR be Used for Learning?
The hype around virtual reality (VR) has died down a bit, though the conference keeps going. I was happy to attend the Versions conference earlier this year, though I was disappointed (but...
Category: EdtechMarch 6, 2017
When Social Media Assignments Increase Risks for Vulnerable Students
Editor's note: The following is a discussion between Data & Society Research Institute researchers Monica Bulger and Mikaela Pitcan and Jade Davis, associate director of Digital Learning Projects at LaGuardia Community College. In...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningFebruary 20, 2017
Safely Guiding Students on Learning Journey
I remember the first year I started teaching. It was exhilarating and confusing and led me to a mini-existential crisis of sorts that I imagine often when you walk into a class...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeJanuary 26, 2017
Call for Diversity in Ed Tech Design
In late December, I attended an educational technology conference hosted at New York University. Rather than highlighting current research, the goal of the conference was to explore the future of the ed...
Categories: Edtech, EquityJuly 25, 2016
Digital Media as Interactive Textbook
Recently, I was a guest on the Meanwhile in the Future podcast on an episode titled “Flash Forward,” speaking about digital media and education. While speaking with Rose Eveleth, the host, I...
Category: EdtechMarch 17, 2016
Exploring Virtual Reality in Education
When looking at the state of digital media and learning today, virtual reality (VR) is barely a blip in many of the broader conversations. Much of the work being done focuses on...
Categories: Edtech, New TrendsJanuary 28, 2016
The Boundaries of Data Collection
I want to take a moment to examine how data collection has changed for us who teach and assess students. In the digitally augmented classroom, there should be concern for both corporate...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational Practice