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Selected stories covering the innovative work of DFI and our Collaborators

Ioana Literat sitting in the Smith Learning Theater

Young Women's Political Expression on Social Media

DFI Affiliated Professor Ioana Literat and her co-author Neta Kligler-Vilenchik wrote a piece for Ms. Magazine on the online activism of young women. In Not Your Mother’s Activism: Young Women’s Political Expression on Social Media, they discuss what political expression looks like now for some young people in digital spaces. 

Lalitha Vasudevan talking in a panel

Learn about the Media and Social Change Lab

DFI's Managing Director and Vice Dean for Digitial Innovation, Lalitha Vasudevan, talked with Columbia News about the Media and Social Change Lab (MASCLab). In the piece, Teachers College Lab Looks at the Links Between Media and Social Change, Vasudevan discusses the history of MASCLab, the kinds of projects that have happened there, and how it intersects with other areas of her work. 

Professors Nathan Holbert and Haeny Yoon in the Macy Podcast Studio

3 Playful Summer Tips for Parents

In this piece by the Teachers College Newsroom, Director of Play Initiatives Haeny Yoon and DFI affiliated Professor Nathan Holbert, co-hosts of the DFI-produced podcast Pop and Play, talk about how parents can support children's play over the summer. 

ChatGPT in the Classroom

DFI Managing Director and Vice Dean for Digital Innovation Lalitha Vasudevan appeared on the NPR and WIRED co-produced podcast Know It All: 1A and WIRED's Guide to AI as part of a group conversation about ChatGPT in the classroom. 

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What We're Still Getting Wrong about School Shootings

DFI Affiliated Professor Sonali Rajan wrote an Opinion piece for the LA Times: It's Been 25 Years Since Columbine: This is What We're Still Getting Wrong about School Shootings. 

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Digitizing the SAT

DFI Senior Executive Director Charles Lang is quoted in this article from USA Today about the SAT going to only digital administration. In the piece, Big changes are coming to the SAT, and not everyone is happy. What students should know, he notes how the change may be bigger than the College Board described.

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