There never were going to be any dinosaur bones. Not on that cloudy day, nor on
any other. But we went out anyway. With sandwiches and chips, an apple or two.
Out to
Language is a source of power that makes things happen in the world, and that is
an important and challenging lesson to teach in college writing courses. Once
students recognize the profound implications
Wikipedia’s gender gap, which results in problems of representation attributed
to the lack of women and non-male editors participating in the encylopedia’s
production, is by now well-known and well-documented.
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Simplifying people to stereotypes rarely has a noble purpose. In narrowing and
propagating unnuanced definitions for human experiences or identities, the
already marginalized can be dehumanized, the othered can be villified, and
diversity
There needs to be a general reshaping of how college is viewed and how colleges
act. There is an epidemic going on right now. Students invest a massive amount
of funds and massive
My day began at 2am. One of our kids stumbled into our room because he couldn’t
sleep. We’ve learned the hard way that inviting him into our bed when this
happens
Writing is neither a process nor a product; it is an event that transforms those
who engage in it. Teachers must acknowledge not just the rewards but also the
risks inherent in the
Students were writing about & for asylum seekers in a tumultuous political climate. A service learning initiative quickly became a matter of life or death.
Two news stories at the beginning of the 2016 fall semester reignited an ongoing
debate about the importance of safety in higher education. The first was a
letter
[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/
Some platforms are not agnostic. Not all tools can be hacked to good use. Critical Digital Pedagogy demands we approach our tools and technologies always with one eyebrow raised.
When we talk about education, one fundamental thing from which we should start
are the aspects in which education takes place. What does a person need in his
life? What makes him educated,
I grew up in a middle-class American household, and I studied classical music. I
took private lessons from seventh grade on. I owned my own instrument from
eighth grade on. I upgraded to
Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook
[https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].How do we as citizens, educators, parents,
neighbors and consumers deal with the flood of political messaging
“You can’t be neutral on a moving train”
— Howard Zinn
As universities go, the ethos of my home institution is relatively conservative.
Conservative parents believe their children will maintain conservative values by
