Academic Labor
46 posts
Love
Teacher of the Ear
Martha Burtis discusses the benefits of loving students in the classroom. Hear how pedagogies of care affect classroom labor.
Self-Care
Teacher of the Ear
Kaitlin Clinnin and sarah madoka currie acknowledge that we’re all worn out, then explore ways to contextualize the problem and show ourselves some grace.
Scholarly Communication
Teacher of the Ear
What could scholarly communication look like if we understand the system and strategically apply pressure in an effort to break that system?
Active Gratitude
Teacher of the Ear
What is the nature of gratitude? What does it challenge — or allow — us to do? And how does it change when we think of it as being *active*? I talk with Amy Slay and Kate Bowles to learn more.
Fandom, Feminism, and Maker Pedagogy
Academic Labor
Maker pedagogy can be a political, and even radical, approach to learning. The best learning experiences emerge when students approach making as an exploratory and self-reflexive process that brings them into closer conversation with the concerns of the course.
Instructional Designers Are Teachers
Academic Labor
The future of digital learning depends on taking seriously the work of instructional designers as teachers, both by pushing them to be more and acknowledging when they are far more than we realized.
Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages
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Once upon a time, I taught a MOOC. Actually it was twice, and really it was only four years ago. It was a course called Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information, created for the
Wakefulness and Digitally Engaged Publics
Academic Labor
Before his death in 2003, Edward Said [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said] urged his colleagues to assume the role of public intellectuals in the service of democracy. Said, a professor of
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Access
Academic Labor
What does it take to access an education? I spoke with Robin DeRosa about this broad issue that affects the way we do things in our classrooms and schools.
Pedagogical Training via Relationship Building: The Value of Peer Mentoring
Academic Labor
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
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Confessions of a Graduate Teacher (Once Lost, Now Found)
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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’
Confessions of a Self-Taught College Instructor: Embracing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
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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
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(dis)Owning Tech: Ensuring Value and Agency at the Moment of Interface
Agency
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#
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(Higher) Education as Bulwark of Uselessness
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Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].Almost two years ago, halfway through the twisting path that was my doctoral course, I found myself
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