Kris Shaffer and Asao Inoue discuss generous ways to assess student work, and we’ll hear from Lee Skallerup Bessette to consider institutional assessment, empathy, and student needs.
“[W]hat is broken and twisted is also beautiful, and a bearer of knowledge. The
Deformed Humanities is an origami crane—a piece of paper contorted into an
object of startling insight and
Traditional college students of today are completely mediated. They can tweet,
text, and post to Instagram all day long; they swim through a sea of media, and
are savvy with an array of
The 21st century learning landscape demands a significant shift in the role, but
not the importance, of the teacher. Smart use of relevant technology can help
make that shift easier.
In June of
I am deeply disturbed by dominant discourses in society that silence the voices
of others, particularly women and ethnic minorities. I am frustrated by people
who put others down, particularly online. And I
“The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in
England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it
would prove a serious danger to the upper classes,
Common systems that check finished work for signs of plagiarism turn it into a punitive situation, rather than a teaching opportunity. What if we looked at citation as a compassionate authorial act? Could we situate quoting and referencing as an act of academic kindness?
How do we know if the new ‘it’ technology will work in our classroom? Will it
create meaningful learning for our students, or even for ourselves as educators?
As an educator whose research
What do we mean when we use the phrase, “in the real world”? As many of us are
in a state of transition between school and work, styles of work, or a balance
“What is new and which affects the idea of the work comes not necessarily from
the internal recasting of each of these disciplines, but rather from their
encounter in relation to an object
The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Professionby Dana
Goldstein. 349 pages. Doubleday: New York, etc. 2014. ISBN 978-0-385-53695-0.
A Review by R L Widmann
This book is the type
Our homeschooling journey began nearly a decade ago, when our three year-old
daughter started preschool. I was certain she would love school.
She didn’t.
We cycled through three schools. At one, teachers
It is much easier to pay lip service to notions such as critical pedagogy and
open education, than it is to truly embody those ideals in our own practice. One
of the struggles
