I focused on whether or not they felt welcomed into the community and whether or not they felt heard. I looked beyond the College Board’s pre-determined learning outcomes to students’ level of engagement, play, and curiosity.

Re-imagining academic culture can unearth the roots of academic shaming and build academic empathy.

“What should academics do on Twitter?” At a recent roundtable workshop on developing a professional academic digital identity, I heard the first four speakers address that question which I have heard so many

For a class discussion to be student-centered, teachers must cede control, and teachers must listen. For many reasons though, these tasks prove difficult. Teachers often do not want to cede control during a

It is 1873. Something unique is about to happen. A steam-train gathers speed in the background. Carriages on cobbled streets. In a dark room children sleep. In another room, a man reads a

When I first proposed the research title “Editing Chicanas,” one of my mentors, Alice Gambrell, commented that it was a good title, partly because it prompted such anxiety. I was surprised, as anxiety

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

In January, 2014, we participated in the MOOC Rhizomatic Learning: The community is the curriculum [https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-learning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/] (#rhizo14) facilitated by Dave Cormier [http://davecormier.com/]. A group of

Embracing our subjectivity as teachers can be tricky; I’ve written several [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/critical-pedagogy-intentions-realities/] times [http://https//opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/maha-bali/education-moving-from-indoctrination-to-liberation] about how complex it is when teachers

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

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

It is not too hard to recognize that educational institutions, to a large degree, determine the process of engagement with learning and engagement with the learners. It should come as no surprise that

When I was in graduate school working on my Ph.D. in English, I spent quite a few hours in the TA office, an expansive room in the basement of the English building,

Hashtags are taxonomic and pedagogical tools (with citation standards to boot [http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/8/2853518/modern-language-association-standard-format-citing-tweets] ).The Twitter hashtag was born in 2007 [http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/