Cyberspace back to the Classroom: Taking Lessons Learned from Teaching Street Law during the Pandemic Back to in-Person Instruction

In spring 2020, when schools around the world were compelled to close their physical doors, educators, administrators and students were forced to re-invent what it meant to teach and to learn. For fifty years, Street Law programs have been dedicated to hands-on, student centered, interactive teaching strategies. Law students, lawyers and teachers have devoted countless hours to creating fun, practical lessons designed to teach young people about practical law that affects their daily lives and also develop the skills they need to use their newly found legal knowledge to improve their lives and their communities. Remote learning upended all the best practices Street Law practitioners had spent half a century building. We had no choice but to adapt and so we did. Law students and Street Law professors re-imagined their programs. Some practitioners immediately converted their programs to distance learning. That fall, I wrote a practice report detailing the experiences of my law students teaching high school asynchronously in spring 2020 and synchronously during that summer and fall and asking whether it was possible to teach interactive Street Law lessons remotely. In that article, I included the best practices that we had developed for our programs in New York City. I wanted to know if practitioners in other parts of the United States and abroad were having similar experiences and results. This paper examines comprehensive reflections from eight law school-based Street Law programs teaching remotely during the pandemic. The reflections include which suggestions worked for them in practice and which ones did not. In addition, as we look to a return to in-person instruction in the fall of 2021, this paper will examine whether there is anything we have learned from emergency remote instruction that we may want to keep. Is it possible that some of our virtual teaching experiences will strengthen our return to the classroom

Virtual reality: Theoretical basis, practical applications

Virtual reality (VR) is a powerful multimedia visualization technique offering a range of mechanisms by which many new experiences can be made available. This paper deals with the basic nature of VR, the technologies needed to create it, and its potential, especially for helping disabled people. It also offers an overview of some examples of existing VR systems

Unlocking the Doors Feminist Insights for Inclusion in Governance, Peace and Security

This is the third primer in the series. It analyses the successes and gaps in women's movements' approaches to the intersections between governance and the security complex. These insights are based on AWDF's analysis of some of the major challenges confronting movement building in the areas of governance, peace and security. With these primers, our objective is to re position feminist politics as a fundamental expression of accountability to our cause and constituencies, and to provide an opportunity for advancing individual and collective learning

Unweaving the Web: Beginning to think theologically about the Internet

This is the author's version of the book.This book discusses features of the Internet that are new and theologically challenging and how these features affect the way we think about place, time, and identity

Governing by internet architecture

In the past thirty years, the exponential rise in the number of Internet users around the word and the intensive use of the digital networks have brought to light crucial political issues. Internet is now the object of regulations. Namely, it is a policy domain. Yet, its own architecture represents a new regulative structure, one deeply affecting politics and everyday life. This article considers some of the main transformations of the Internet induced by privatization and militarization processes, as well as their consequences on societies and human beings.En los últimos treinta años ha crecido de manera exponencial el número de usuarios de Internet alrededor del mundo y el uso intensivo de conexiones digitales ha traído a la luz cuestiones políticas cruciales. Internet es ahora objeto de regulaciones. Es decir, es un ámbito de la política. Aún su propia arquitectura representa una nueva estructura reguladora, que afecta profundamente la política y la vida cotidiana. Este artículo considera algunas de las principales transformaciones de Internet inducida por procesos de privatización y militarización, como también sus consecuencias en las sociedades y en los seres humanos

Reconfiguring the twenty first-century reader : an analysis of interpretation and performance

This article discusses how contemporary technological trends and new media have reconfigured the reader into a multiplicity of roles, suggesting that a number of dualisms formerly associated with the act of reading are no longer valid. Notions of writing and reading, creation and interpretation have been adapted to new convergence models of textual production and reception, and whilst 'story' remains translatable across media, in the process of multiplatforming, various narrative techniques are used to create different levels of engagement with the text at each stage. The promise of the reader's much-celebrated creative authority at the turn of the century is problematised here through a discussion of distributed aesthetics and tele-theories of representation. Taking the fantasy genre as a case study, the contemporary influence of cultish trends, together with the effect of cybernetic communication dynamics on traditional genre stylistics and the fulfilment of narrative meaning, will be analysed as essential considerations in establishing which aspects of the traditional reader are translatable to a future that seems increasingly dependent on connectivity, interactivity and speed. The article will argue that, in a number of instances, the contemporary cultural scenario suggests that fulfilment of meaning is often successfully executed through strategies previously associated with the performative rather than the literary text, and will conclude that specific technological developments are responsible for this adaptation.peer-reviewe

The First Amendment and Cyberspace: The Clinton Years

Both in terms of speech regulation and in terms of providing raw material for the legal controversies that shape the law of the First Amendment, the legacy of Pres Clinton\u27s Administration is considerable, and nowhere more than in cyberspace. The most visible example of the Clinton Administration\u27s role in cyberspeech regulation are the Communications Decency Act, which was struck down by unanimous vote of the Supreme Court in 1997, and the Child Online Protection Act, which is now before the courts