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October 9, 2026

The Inconvenience of Thought

Articles, education, higher education, media ecology

Thirty years after studying with Neil Postman (and ten years after writing about what he taught me) the artificial intelligence debate is making me reconsider…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
Classroom sign reading “Cell Phone Use Prohibited in the Classroom” under New Jersey state mandate
October 1, 2026

NJ’s New School Cell Phone Ban Is in Effect: What Parents Should Know [NJFamily.com]

Articles, critical media health literacy, digital and media literacy, education, Healthy Teens Archive, media literacy education, middle school, professional development, teacher education, teacher professional development, technology, urban education

This is an excerpt of an article in which I was quoted. You can read the full article at the link below. By Dina El…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
September 12, 2026

Rearranging the Landscape

Articles, media permaculture, permaculture, regenerative homesteading

Prefer to Listen? I have a list. Actually, I have several lists, which is already part of the problem. The goats need a more reliable…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
August 27, 2026

Lamentations: When Education Interrupts Learning

Articles, education, higher education, professional development

And lo, the Google calendar began to fill. For two glorious months, those little white squares had mostly belonged to me. Then August arrived (as…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
August 25, 2026

When Did Fall Become a Flavor? Pumpkin Spice Has Literally Reached Bottom

Articles, critical media health literacy, digital and media literacy, media ecology, media literacy, media permaculture

Prefer to Listen? Autumn arrives early on my farmstead. I don’t mean calendar early. I mean, I spend enough time outside that sometime in late…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
August 21, 2026

Of Pigs and Platforms: What We Leave Behind

Articles, media ecology, media permaculture

Prefer to listen? August in New Jersey can make vegetation seem almost aggressive. This morning I was working my way around the perimeter of my…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
August 10, 2026

Read Before Write

Articles, best practice, democratic practice, digital citizenship, media ecology, media permaculture

Image above is AI generated. Ideas below are human generated. Prefer to listen? In the summer of 1921, a fourteen-year-old farm boy named Philo Farnsworth…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
July 27, 2026

Precut and Prepackaged: Feeding Our Hunger for More

Articles, media permaculture

Prefer to listen? I took this photograph while browsing the aisles of a charming upscale market in northern New Jersey. Packages of asparagus, rainbow carrots,…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
July 18, 2026

Democratizing the Digital Campus

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Opening the Door to an Unbound (and Uncertain) Future in Higher Education Vanessa Elaine Greenwood, PhD. cross-posted from vitaeloca.org This academic year marks my twenty-fifth…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
July 16, 2026

Breathing Through the Smoke

Articles, media permaculture

Image above is AI generated. Ideas below are human generated. Prefer to listen? This morning, the air over northwestern New Jersey carried the unmistakable smell…

Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.

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