John is an Assistant Professor of Professional Writing and Editing at West Virginia University where he teaches writing and digital literacy. He was formerly a Visiting Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Communication at the University of Texas at Dallas, and from 2007-2009 he was an Assistant Director of the “Digital Writing and Research Lab” at the University of Texas at Austin. While at the DWRL, John co-founded and served as Managing Editor for Viz, a website and blog investigating the connections between rhetoric and visual culture.
John Jones
Articles
April 10, 2017
The 2017 NCES report “Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering” notes that the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities (WMPD) in science and engineering fields does...
Category: EquityDecember 1, 2016
Exploring 3 Models of Digital Literacy
The New Media Consortium, the group behind the annual Horizon reports on the impact of technology on learning, has produced a short report on digital literacy. The report is based on a...
Category: Digital CitizenshipNovember 7, 2016
DOI Finds Open Access Research
One of the best things to come out of Open Access Week was the oaDOI tool by Impactstory. If you are unfamiliar with the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) system, it provides a...
Category: EdtechOctober 13, 2016
One of the most publicly prominent elements of the current interest in math and science education has been the adage that everyone should learn to code. When arguing for universal coding literacy,...
Category: Digital LearningAugust 18, 2016
The Situational Approach to Learning with New Media
The topic of whether or how children should use new and emerging technologies for learning is evergreen, particularly as the new school year commences. I’ve written in this space before about reactions...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeApril 7, 2016
Reassessing Collective Intelligence
“@MichelleFields you are totally delusional”: Collective intelligence in 2016 Back in 2005, Tim O’Reilly, publisher and technology pundit, posted an essay describing “Web 2.0.” In it, O’Reilly attempted to describe what had...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDecember 28, 2015
Launa Hall’s recent essay in the Washington Post describes her misgivings and concerns about her third-grade students using ipads in the classroom. Hall describes a handful of arresting moments when her students’...
Categories: Edtech, Educational PracticeNovember 19, 2015
The Closed Loop of Digital Literacy Debate
Here's a quiz for you, reader. The following quotes were written about popular books on the effect of technology on our behavior and culture. One was written in the late 1990s and...
Category: Digital CitizenshipSeptember 21, 2015
Cursive Writing and the Importance of Teaching Skills
For most of the past decade, I have spent a week each summer reading essays by high schoolers in the Advanced Placement program. In the past few years, I’ve noticed a trend:...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Educational PracticeJuly 20, 2015
Book Lacks Digital Reading Details
The goal of “Words Onscreen,” Naomi S. Baron’s new book, is to account for the ways that “digital reading is reshaping our understanding of what it means to read” (p. xii). Baron...
Category: Digital Citizenship