Category: Connected Learning
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Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism in Your Classroom
The integral part of your curriculum is academic writing. Assigning essays to students, you set sights on enhancing their critical thinking and brain functioning. As a teacher, you want mentees to shape opinions intelligibly and argumentatively, as well as clarify thoughts, summarize, and highlight the crucial information. The problem is, most students find it challenging. […]
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Intersection of Race & Disability: Equity in the Classroom
An electronic poster/lightning talk (see attached) presented on May 18th at HASTAC 2019 “Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education.” This poster addresses ways in which race and disability overlap throughout history, as well as how we can use interactive media (such as experiential learning and digital game creation) to address these systems and begin to have these […]
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HASTAC Scholars Project Showcase, University of Kansas, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
2017-19 HASTAC Scholars showcase profiled graduate research projects and professional development work by Mariah Crystal, Rain Charger, Clarisse Barbier, and An Sasala (not pictured). Mariah Crystal explained how she plans to use digital storytelling to document the oral histories of Namibian women and their involvement in Namibia’s independence. Rain Charger discussed his research on knowledge […]
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Disaster Racism: How Youtube Comments led to an Unplanned Discussion about Race in an Environmental History Class
This past spring semester, I taught a 200-level history class titled “Disaster & Disease: Society and Environment in Latin America, 1450-2017.” The goal for the course was to let students investigate how climate, disease, and environmental changes impacted societies. How did humans face these challenges and adapt to them? And what does this tell us about […]
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How Can a Collaborative Online Syllabus Address the Historical Roots of Contemporary Issues?: The #ImmigrationSyllabus, Part I
Throughout my doctoral studies in history at Emory University, I have become increasingly committed to educating current and future policy makers about immigration concerns. Given recent events surrounding global refugee crises, immigration restrictions, and the resulting frustrations among historians who recognize these patterns in other historical contexts, I began to develop a hypothetical required reading […]
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ODL 600 LLG-1 Final Project
Hello, Class The link below will connect you to our recorded video of a virtual training module, Step One, that could be could be expanded into a multi-module program and presented as a MOOC. We hope that you will find it informative. https://drive.google.com/a/sju.edu/file/d/1-5odwLA1-vzlNQwECts2XCsgF-vl5…
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SJU LLG-1 Comparative Review of Two MOOCs (2019)
Thank you for taking the time to learn from what we have learned! Our group, LLG 1, each viewed two MOOCs provided by edX.org. After the viewings, we met and discussed our initial reactions and reflections. The two learnings we participated in were “Nutrition and Cancer” and “Origins of the Human Mind”. “Nutrition and Cancer” […]
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Welcome
Welcome to the next generation of students exploring adult learning in the digital age. In this group you will find creative posts that compare online courses. You will also find ingenious, short examples of how to design effective online learning–all while learning a little about adult learning!
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Entry & Exit Tickets: A Way to Share in the Intellectual Growth of Students
This is the third post of a series on Progressive Pedagogy in which I very briefly summarize a pedagogical theory and offer an exercise (or two) that you can use in your classroom to put that theory into practice. To read my first post in the series, click here. bell hooks writes in Teaching to Transgress that […]
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Racquel Gates Interview on Reality Tv
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/reality-tv-much-more-guilty-pleasur…