Bucknell Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship

Apparently learning that science does not always come naturally-even to geniuses-helps children succeed. Students who learned that great scientists struggled, both personally and intellectually, outperformed those who learned only of the scientists' great achievements, new research shows. Ninth- and 10th-grade students in low-performing New York City schools who read about Albert Einstein's struggles, including multiple school changes...

Then I heard the thunder crash, and I saw a dark shadow on the wall. My heart began to pound, as . . . . This brief article describes "digital humanities" research that allows a computer to identify suspenseful moments in literary stories.

More colleges are allowing dissertations to take digital or other nontraditional forms, but students need to prepare for the career consequences.

Interesting infographics demonstrating that sixth graders in the richest school districts are four grade levels ahead of children in the poorest districts.

Players and scholars are turning to computer tablets and leaving paper scores behind.

A new paper delivers a clear verdict on computers in the classroom - but a variety of important questions remain open, like how they interfere with student learning, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.

Novel use of tax records gives researchers a clearer look at the demographics of same-sex married couples than was previously possible.

Visualizations of survey responses show where students feel they belong, or don't Premium content for subscribers.

A useful article that challenges the "big tent" model of digital humanities and has important implications for digital scholarship more generally.

This article summarizes various studies that show that active learning if more effective than the traditional lecture, particularly for women and students of color.

Amazing infographic depicting where the top 23 world languages are spoken and how many people speak those languages.

This article describes the widespread use of the two "one-button" video recording studios at Penn State.

New York Times article about some of the challenges of "big data" analysis - particularly the data cleanup needed to make useful inferences.

Interesting article about the difficulty of working with archives, especially when their contents or structures don't match research questions. This applies mostly to paper archives, although the issue of digital archives is discussed at the end as well. The article is primarily a summary of presentations at a conference.

This article discusses how unemployed men and women spend their time during a typical day. What's most interesting is how the data is represented visually.

An effective but somewhat disheartening use of GIS to map the frequency of lynchings in the Southern U.S. by county from 1877 to 1950.