Jesse Stommel is Executive Director of Hybrid Pedagogy and faculty at the University of Denver. His research and teaching focus on higher education pedagogy, critical digital pedagogy, and assessment.
Consider the tangible violence technology has wrought upon grammar. We rely on
automated grammar and spell-check tools in word-processing software (so much
that they’ve become a crutch). E-mail shorthand fails to live
Grading and assessment are curious beasts, activities many instructors love to
hate but ones that nonetheless undergird the institutions where we work.
Peter Elbow begins his essay “Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting Out
Students are evolving. The student 2.0 is an altogether different animal from
the student 1.0. And our classrooms are ecosystems, an environment all their
own, where we each must decide how
