I’ve stopped worrying about managing the classroom the way I used to. I’ve stopped telling students what to write about. I’ve realized that the more ideas there are in the writing classroom the better.
Not all of my stories are as utilitarian to my teaching as the stories I’ve shared above. But all of my stories—all of our stories—have the potential to be enduring. Stories are sustenance: they are in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the communities we live, work, and love.
Precautions... do not eliminate the inherent risks of showing potentially harmful images. But they do serve an essential purpose: by leading with care and context, instructors can help minimize the images’ potential harm.
In times of uncertainty and fear, what I find most helpful is love and care as I struggle. Why would learning, since it’s its own process of working through uncertainty, be any different?
Cheating is not a technological problem, but a social and pedagogical problem. Technology is often blamed for creating the conditions in which cheating proliferates and is then offered as the solution to the problem it created; both claims are false.
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
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,
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
“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
The Digital Humanities (DH) can be viewed in two ways: as emerging and as
emergent.
* Emerging: Over the last two decades, as it grew from humanities computing
into digital humanities
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