The UvA Education Day is the place to share, discuss and anticipate inspiring ideas, projects and practical examples from education, and look ahead to the (near) future of education. The annual Education Day is for organised for everyone within the UvA who is involved in education, such as teachers, other education professionals and students. This Read More
Posts by Jessica Piotrowski
First Day Back
March 12, 2020 was the last day I taught in a classroom. Today, I return. The sky is calm, my nerves are not. I’m anxious, excited, hopeful, and unsure. There’s a whole of emotions. And that’s okay. To all my fellow teachers, be kind to yourself. One slide at a time.
Project Digital Competence (DIGCOM) launched!
Officially launched in February 2021, Project DIGCOM represents a new collaboration between the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the UvA and the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (minBZK). This is an exciting two-year collaboration designed to assess and support the digital competence of Dutch citizens, representing one of the most robust efforts Read More
2020, A Difficult Road
2020 has been anything but easy. The pandemic has jolted education, research, and daily life in ways that I doubt we will soon recover from. But still, somehow, we have trudged forward. It’s perhaps for that reason that I’m so proud of the work that was published this year, and for the colloborations that made Read More
New Position at University
Starting 1 September 2020, I am proud to announce that I have be named the Director of the Graduate School of Communication at the University of Amsterdam. I look forward to this role and to the challenges it will bring. To learn more about the school, visit: https://gsc.uva.nl/
New Podcast: The Shift to Distance Learning
This week, I had the opportunity to speak about the “The Shift to Distance Learning” on the program Reinventing School. The focus of this hour-long conversation was on distance learning, particularly in the time Covid-19. This week, our topic is distance learning, a phenomenon that has suddenly captivated the world of school and education. Certainly, Read More
Top Paper Award, ICA 2020
This year, I am honored to share that my colleagues and I have been recognized with the Top Published Article Award for 2019. Awarded by the Children, Adolescents, and the Media division of the International Communication Association, this award is given annually to an article that colleagues in the field represents “a significant contribution to Read More
Emergency Remote Teaching
In a near instant, schools are the world – Universities too – have been faced with the need to turn their teaching digital. An important step for physical distancing that has left all of us – myself included – unsure of how to proceed. Our teaching is so often built upon the principles of face-to-face Read More
Teaching Technology
Happy to announce that my new course, Emerging Technology, is now running. It’s a daring new course – bridging science and development quite literally every week with theory lectures combined with hands-on skills workshops. My goal is to challenge my students to think differently about the world around them – to ask the critical questions, Read More
Entertaining Generation Digital
I had the pleasure of speaking at the Turner Summit (Cartoon Network) in London. I was challenged to think about how we can entertain generation digital. It was a fun challenge that I happily accepted! During my talk, I encouraged the audience to see the value in both hedonic (enjoyment) and eudaemonic (meaningful) attributes of Read More