Tag: education
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Pulling the Plug: Instructure/ Canvas Breach, Educational Data Privacy, and a Call to Reduce/Rethink/Refuse LMS Use
May 12, 2026 Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective May 7, 2026, will long be remembered beyond the end of this spring semester. Not because of any major breakthrough in scientific discovery or even the legal restoration of millions in NEH grant funding previously cut by DOGE. Instead, many in education will remember it as the day their learning…
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Snapshots of Teaching About Surveillance in Secondary & Higher Education
Karon Jones, James Stevens, Makayla Woods, & Charles Woods (East Texas A&M University) Introduction In Summer, 2025, Dr. Charles Woods taught the first offering of ENG 612: Privacy-Surveillance Rhetorics. Graduate students in Privacy-Surveillance Rhetorics interrogated the rhetorical implications of the privacy-surveillance spectrum throughout local and global culture(s) and focused on the inherent intertwining of rhetoric and…
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EdTech Surveillance in Online Asynchronous Courses
By Emily Gillo, University of Memphis For this edition, I want to discuss how to integrate a demonstration of EdTech surveillance into an online, asynchronous course. This semester at the University of Memphis, I’m teaching a class (made up of 12 undergraduate and 5 graduate students) called Web and Online Writing that focuses on public…
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Meet DRPC Graduate Research Assistant Michele Hearn
My name is Michele Hearn and I am from the awesome city of San Antonio, Texas. Currently, I serve as an English as a Second Language (ESL) coordinator in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. My educational journey began at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, where I earned my bachelor’s degree. Today, I have nearly…
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