Mike Rifino

Mike Rifino wrote a new post, Co-Creating Social Change: Transformative Learning in a Community College, on the site The Futures Initiative 1 year, 8 months ago

Wed, Feb 14 | GC Skylight Room (9100) | 12:00pm to 2:00pm EST | RSVP | Live stream
Social Media: #fight4edu | @FuturesED

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Join the Futures Initiative on February 14th from 12-2pm […]
Mike Rifino edited the blog post Event recap: Mentors to Leaders in the group Futures Initiative: 1 year, 10 months ago

On September 28th, the Futures Initiative hosted its second event of the Thursday Dialogue series with a panel discussion that focused on the Futures Initiative Undergraduate Leadership program. The purpose of […]
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post Sept. 28: Thursday Dialogue: Mentors to Leaders in the group Futures Initiative: 1 year, 12 months ago

Thursday, September 28 | 12pm to 2pm | Graduate Center, CUNY | Room 9204 | #fight4edu

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WHERE: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
Room: 9204
WHEN: Thursday, September 28, 12:00 PM-2:00 PM
C […]
Mike Rifino edited the blog post Exploring and Reimagining the Meanings of Urban Education Sep 12 in the group : 2 years ago
Mike Rifino wrote a new post, Exploring and Reimagining the Meanings of Urban Education Sep 12, on the site Research & Pedagogy for Americas 2 years ago
Mike Rifino wrote a new post, Announcement about Visit to El Puente!, on the site Research & Pedagogy for Americas 2 years ago

Important information about our visit to El Puente

When: Tuesday, September 19th at 4 PM

Where: 211 South 4th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

We will meet approximately for 2 hours with the staff, & […]
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post Group-based Scavenger Hunt Activity: A Reflection in the group Futures Initiative Mentors: 2 years ago

*This post has been cross posted on HASTAC

August 9th was an exciting day for my Futures Initiative team!

This was the day that after a competitive application process, we would finally meet our new (and […]
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post Bystander Intervention Training in the group Futures Initiative: 2 years, 5 months ago

Wednesday, April 26 | 5 PM to 7:30 PM EDT, The Graduate Center, Room 9206 | RSVP

As a continuation of our recent University Worth Fighting For event titled, “Global Perspectives on the Fight for Highe […]
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post March 6: Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education in the group Futures Initiative: 2 years, 7 months ago

Monday, March 6 | 2 PM to 4 PM EST | GC Room 9100 (Skylight Room)| RSVP | Google Doc
Twitter Chat: @FuturesED#fight4edu
Live stream: http://bit.ly/fight4edu-live

Join the Futures Initiative on Monday, Ma […]
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post Nov 14: Media Blackness in the group Futures Initiative: 2 years, 10 months ago

Monday, November 14 | 12 PM to 2 PM EST | http://bit.ly/Media-Blackness | #fight4edu | RSVP

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Join the Futures Initiative on Monday, November 14 from 12-1 for “Media Blackness,” an engaged co […]
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post Oct 31: Enacting a Different STEM: Building Equitable Futures Beyond “Diversity” in the group Futures Initiative: 2 years, 11 months ago

Monday, October 31 | 1 PM to 3 PM EDT | bit.ly/fight4edu-live | #fight4edu | RSVP

Co-sponsored by HASTAC, GC Digital Initiatives, the Software Studies Initiative, the Office of Educational Opportunity and Div […]
Sujoy and Mike Rifino are now friends 2 years, 11 months ago
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post Sept 20: Racism, Xenophobia, and Populism: The Miseducation of the Public in the group Futures Initiative: 3 years ago

Tuesday, September 20 | 3 PM to 4 PM EDT | bit.ly/fight4edu-live |#fight4edu | RSVP
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Join us at the Graduate Center on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 3:00-4:00 p.m. in the Skylight Room (Room […]
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post Agency Reconsidered in the group Agency and Social Transformation: 3 years, 5 months ago

The papers this week, again like previous weeks, touched upon bridging theory to practice in the classroom. Referring to Ares’s (2008) paper, tackled the question of what does student-centered learning look like i […]
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post Week 11 Apr 19 in the group Agency and Social Transformation: 3 years, 5 months ago
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post Agency in Digital Worlds in the group Agency and Social Transformation: 3 years, 5 months ago

In the paper by Barab et. al, explore that children today have a constrained sense of agency. This is characterized as having fewer opportunities for free play time where children can have an not imposing space […]
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post Week 10 Apr 12 in the group Agency and Social Transformation: 3 years, 5 months ago
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post The Social and the Individual in Identity in the group Agency and Social Transformation: 3 years, 5 months ago

For this week, we read authors that came up in previous weeks, like Biesta on emancipation in education and life long learning. In addition, this is the second time we are reading Gee. I think reading authors more […]
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post Agency and Social Practice in the group Agency and Social Transformation: 3 years, 5 months ago

This week’s readings addressed how agency is connected with social practice. In general, a lot of common principles and ideas occurred throughout the papers. For instance, most in general embraced a relational a […]
Mike Rifino wrote a new blog post Week 8 March 29 in the group Agency and Social Transformation: 3 years, 6 months ago
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Mike Rifino

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