Category: Connected Learning

  • Creating an Equitable Environment

    Creating an Equitable Environment

    Personal Objective: As I’ve been going through the weeks and decided on the best activity/reading/visual component to showcase, I feel like this course and any versions of it could go on forever. I’ve also learned how quickly a semester can fly by so I’ve tailored the course to have leeway/overlap if needed. There will also […]

  • “I Would Use the Kitchen Sink”: Writing as Re-Vision, Re-Mix, Re-Search: A Course Syllabus

    College Composition I “I WOULD USE THE KITCHEN SINK”: WRITING AS RE-VISION, RE-MIX, RE-SEARCH Course Syllabus with a focus on Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, An American Lyric Prof. Sara Deniz Akant Fall 2017   The materials are books, yes, but they are also spaces of encounter; how we are touched by things; how we touch things. […]

  • Confronting Racist Stereotypes through the “Racial Grotesque”

    Confronting Racist Stereotypes through the “Racial Grotesque”

    Below is a recap of a class session taught by Mike Phillips and Katherine Contess for Prof. Cathy Davidson and Prof. Michael Gillespie’s course, “Race and Gender Theory in the Undergraduate Humanities Classroom” at the CUNY Grad Center. All class materials are available for download at the end of the post. Katherine: We decided to assign […]

  • From Playlists To Pathways Towards Mastery

    From Playlists To Pathways Towards Mastery

    How do playlists help guide learners toward mastery? How do we map the learning pathways associated with the development of expertise and learner identities? As a learning pathway for DiscoverDesign.org and the 2017 National DiscoverDesign Competition, Design Launch will enable design novices to become familiar with the design process, work through two design challenges, and […]

  • Chapter 5: Three Problems with Observation​ (review by James Edmonds)

    Part of the Collaborative Book Review of Structuring Equality: Handbook for Student-Centered Learning. The book is available here. This post reviews Chapter 5, “Three Problems with Observation” by Arinn Amer. Arinn Amer articulately lays bare the hierarchical, disciplinarily distinct, and voyeuristic problematics of teaching observations in her chapter, “Three Problems with Observation.” She indicates through both written word and animation the […]

  • Catching the Mood: A Quick Look at Contagious Emotions (LLG3)

    Catching the Mood: A Quick Look at Contagious Emotions (LLG3)

    For our final presentation our group created a learning module on how emotions are contagious. The goal is for our mini training to spark your curiousity to learn more. Hope you enjoy it. https://youtu.be/-ZDmvkvZ5ZU

  • Baby Boomers to Millennial: Social Media in the Workplace

      How To Bridge The Gap! Click the link to watch a short online instructional video.

  • Projects: Learning in the Digital Age

  • My Five Best, Easiest Active Learning Tactics for Reflection

    My Five Best, Easiest Active Learning Tactics for Reflection

    This morning I had a back-and-forth Twitter conversation with my brilliant colleague Jade Davis on the importance (or lack of same) of “reflection” or what is sometimes called “meta-cognition.”   I grew weary of trying to explain the different active learning techniques I use for reflection via 140-character tweets so I’m switching to blog land for […]

  • Teaching Theories of Gender, Race, and Literary and Expressive Culture

    Teaching Theories of Gender, Race, and Literary and Expressive Culture Maxine Krenzel, Chy Sprauve, Anna Zeemont In Cathy Davidson and Michael Gillespie’s course “Teaching Race and Gender Theory in the Undergraduate Humanities Classroom,” our group was assigned the task of creating lesson plans and student-centered learning activities that engaged both literary and expressive culture through […]