Digital Pedagogy Responsive Teaching Our teaching should be responsive, adapting to the situation, the students, and the semester, not determined by the textbook.
Critical Pedagogy Best Practices: Thoughts on a Flash Mob Mentality I have colleagues who invoke “Best Practices” the way that evangelical Christians quote the Bible: God has spoken. During these conversations, I am tempted to say in a serious voice, “Best Practices dictate that teaching writing should include loud music in a public place and synchronized dancing. In short, a
Composition Learn Like an Arachnid: Why I’m MOOCifying Every fall when I ask my first year students, “Why did you choose theCollege of Environmental Science and Forestry [http://www.esf.edu/]?” at least one will answer, “I want to save the world.” By the time they are sophomores, my students have taken rigorous science courses that focus on
