How can I hear my own voice unless it bounces off of yours?
I have had that single line in my mind for years. It isn’t particularly poetic,
and I don’t
Graduate students enter graduate programs hungry to learn about research,
teaching, and professionalization. They seek knowledge of their discipline,
socialization from faculty and peers, and most importantly the tools to perform
the jobs
Good writing is not reducible to numbers; the word count for the expression of
an idea can’t always (or even usually) be determined in advance. Ideas fit all
kinds of containers, some
I was going to start by saying that digital writing was, for me, a Pandora’s
Box.
But that would not be fair, or true. The jar Pandora opened held the evils of
Digital writing is emergent writing. It mutinies at the imposition of form, the
edicts of the grammars of old. It rails to change the rules. It raises the flag
of anarchy. The council
Running into each other on the Columbia University campus, we often chatted
about books, teaching and learning, music, plants, Broadway shows, and our
theories about how new ideas happened. We shared what inspired
This is a story about two hemispheres of graduate school: teaching and
dissertating. It is a story about how those two parts sometimes cohere but are
more often rendered in sharp relief. It’
“Knowledge creation is a conversation.”
— R. David Lankes
“I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions — a movement against and
beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of
freedom.”
— bell hooks
When I started graduate school and immediately became the instructor of record
of a freshman composition course, I had a couple of advantages going for me.
First, my parents were both educators, one
Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook
[https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].Education is big business. In the U.S., over 5%
[http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/expenditure-education-public-gdp#
We have lots of definitions of “college readiness”; here are the ACT’s
definitions [http://www.act.org/standard/] as well as the Common Core’s in
Language Arts
[http://www.corestandards.org/
Writers should talk more. We write to make ourselves heard. We use writing to
tell a story, contribute to conversations, add our voices to a chorus, raise the
alarm against injustice, call for
In 2013–14, a remarkable 20.5%
[http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_318.20.asp](154,636) of all
Master’s degrees were earned by students in the field
On Friday, 12 August 2016, Martha Burtis gave one of two closing keynotes at the
Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute held at the University of Mary Washington. Below
is the text of her talk;
