The New Information Age

Features

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  Technology and Learning in the New Information Age

  Paul F. Trebian

  New technologies present challenges and opportunities. It’s up to tribal colleges to find solutions that advance student learning in a successful manner.

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  From JSTOR to Jiní: Incorporating Traditional Knowledge in Teaching Information Literacy at Tribal Colleges

  Rhiannon Sorrell

  Traditional Indigenous knowledge is foundational to the curriculum at tribal colleges. But in this new information age TCUs are faced with guiding students through the digital divide and instilling a new level of information literacy and ethics.

Editor's Essay

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  Braving the New Information Age

  Bradley Shreve

  As past mainstream understandings of Wounded Knee illustrate, fake news and alternative facts have always been around. Today, modern technology makes its dissemination quick and easy, underscoring why tribally controlled education is vital.

Current Reflections

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  Paul Boyer on the New Information Age

  Bradley Shreve

  TCJ’s founding editor examines tribal colleges’ challenges and opportunities in the new information age.

Voices

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  Born into a Digital World

  Hondo Baldwin Louis

  

  In the 1960s, Canadian media theorist, philosopher of the “electronics age,” and the “high priest of pop culture” Marshall Mcluhan declared in a seminal article that the “medium was the message.” It mattered not in the least,

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Talking Circle

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  Indigenous Arts and Technology ARE Mathematics: Experiments in Connection at Northwest Indian College

  Matteo Tamburini

  When we recognize that mathematics is the science of patterns, we can create cultural connections, foster reciprocal learning, and make algebra and geometry more accessible to tribal college students.

TCJ Student

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  The Truth Is Out There

  Daniel H. Wilson

  The New York Times best-selling science fiction author presents his top picks from the 2019 creative writing contest and explains why finding the truth through writing is essential.

Dear Readers

• A Future and Past in the Clouds

  Rachael Marchbanks

  Recently we decided to close Tribal College Journal’s safe deposit box at the bank. We had maintained it for many years because that’s where we stored our offsite backup files.

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