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Reviewer: Daniel Lynds

A collection of 16 posts

Building a Writing Class from the Ground Up

Building a Writing Class from the Ground Up

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.

Ray, Jeremy, and other reverberations:

Ray, Jeremy, and other reverberations:

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.

With Care and Context

pedagogy of care

With Care and Context

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.

A Pedagogy of Mentorship: Removing Academic Shame by Helping Students Reach Their Goals, Not Ours

pedagogy of mentorship

A Pedagogy of Mentorship: Removing Academic Shame by Helping Students Reach Their Goals, Not Ours

Far from becoming a copy of their mentor, the protégé is instead empowered and equipped o reach their own professional aspirations.

Teaching and the Art of Letting Go

Teaching and the Art of Letting Go

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?

Our Bodies Encoded: Algorithmic Test Proctoring in Higher Education

Our Bodies Encoded: Algorithmic Test Proctoring in Higher Education

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.

Travelling in Troy With an Instructional Designer

Critical Pedagogy

Travelling in Troy With an Instructional Designer

Instructional designers can build courses in which technologies are Trojan Horses for emancipation through constructionist problem-based learning.

A Pedagogy of Kindness

critical digital pedagogy

A Pedagogy of Kindness

Kindness is something most of us aspire toward as people, but not something we necessarily think of as central to teaching.

A Classroom Romance

A Classroom Romance

Loving my students has been the greatest pedagogical breakthrough I’ve had. Instructors must remain vulnerable to what is loveable about students.

Risk and Event-Based Pedagogies

Risk and Event-Based Pedagogies

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 writing we ask of our students. Once we understand these risks, we should consider how we can

Meeting the Dimensions of Education

Meeting the Dimensions of Education

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, and especially completed as a human being? Is it to find a job and be able to

Pedagogical Training via Relationship Building: The Value of Peer Mentoring

Pedagogical Training via Relationship Building: The Value of Peer Mentoring

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 they attain after graduation. Faculty in graduate programs prepare their students for academic or alt-academic careers through

Beyond Academic Twitter: Social Media and the Evolution of Scholarly Publication

Beyond Academic Twitter: Social Media and the Evolution of Scholarly Publication

“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 times before. I listened to these speakers describe how faculty at St. Lawrence University can use Twitter,

Whither the Digital Humanities?

Digital Humanities

Whither the Digital Humanities?

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 [http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/julyaugust/feature/the-rise-the-machines] , it spawned a range of analytics [http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/ben-merriman-moretti-jockers-digital-humanities]

How Long Will Your Class Remain Yours? Academic Freedom and Control of the Classroom

How Long Will Your Class Remain Yours? Academic Freedom and Control of the Classroom

The late labor historian David Montgomery wrote famously about workers’ control in America [http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/american-history-general-interest/workers-control-america-studies-history-work-technology-and-labor-struggles] during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. “At times the story involved little more than silent and opaque resistance to the demands and innovations of employers,” he suggested

Exploring Innovation

editors’ picks

Exploring Innovation

The 21st-century faculty member is faced with a challenging task. Content must be relevant, experiential, and engaging for the 21st-century learner. As such, this places an onus on classroom creativity and innovation. Hybrid pedagogy has become an avenue for multifaceted instructional strategies and interactive instructional design theoretically enhancing the best