Category: Higher Education
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Here’s How a Syllabus Evolves! Intro to Engaged Teaching and Learning
Introduction to Engaged Teaching and Transformative Learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences EVOLVING SYLLABUS Professors Cathy N. Davidson (The Graduate Center, English and the Futures Initiative) and Eduardo Vianna (LaGuardia CC, Social Sciences, and The Graduate Center, Psychology) Assisting Instructor Tatiana Ades (The Graduate Center, MALS) English 89000; IDS 81670 Crosslistings: Psychology, MALS, and […]
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3 Activities for Digital Literacy in the Writing Classroom
“Algorithm 01” by Dimitris Ladopoulos is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The majority of my students use social media in some fashion. Some are, to some extent, aware of how algorithms collect data and use it for advertising purposes. What they often don’t realize, however, is the trap of “assumed objectivity” that algorithms exude. A […]
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Strategies for Co-Teaching
By Christina Katopodis, Demetrios Lambropoulos, Xuemeng Li, Beth Sherman, Yanni Tziligakis On Different Levels of Collaboration In higher ed, co-teaching structures really depend on the level of collaboration anticipated. Will you teach an equal number of classes? Grade an equal number of papers or exams? Answer an equal number of students’ questions outside of class? Are […]
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Adventures in Student-Generated Learning: A Case Study
A re-post: this case study, co-written with Emma Houston, rising senior DePauw University; Jacob Correa, rising junior, DePauw University was originally posted in the fall. The course material only matters if it matters to you and you can make it matter to someone else. This is a phrase I find myself uttering on the first day of […]
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Fold/Unfold Close Reading Activity
Click here to view the original post with more slide images from June 13, 2019, a modified version of “Unfolding Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Birthmark’,” which I presented at the American Literature Association conference in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 23, 2019. To unfold something is to open or unwrap, attempt to undo its folds. However, a fold […]
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Three Ways to Transform Your Lecture Course: Dean Anne Balsamo’s “TechnoCulture”
In this “Progressive Pedagogy Group,” we typically advocate the most engaged, active, student-led forms of learning. However, in the modern academy, most of us are faced with teaching a large lecture course. Sure, one can be creative and engaged in the small discussion sessions . . . but what about when you are on that stage, […]
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Pedagogy for Liberation in Social Work: Power, Privilege and Oppression
As part of our final project, we offer some of our reflections and inspiration for the syllabus we co-created: Diana Melendez: My experience as a doctoral student who is simultaneously playing the role of educator and student has been extremely eye opening in terms of the the challenges of the process of learning overall. Although […]
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Farewell #HASTAC2019, Hello #HASTAC2020 and #HASTAC2022
Thank you, #HASTAC2019 Some academic conferences are simply professional trade shows by another name. Some are gatherings of the minds. Occasionally–once or twice in an academic lifespan–one comes along that nourishes the spirit in ways that one will never forget and that, in memory, one returns to over and over, for many years to come. […]
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HASTAC 2019: Reflections and Gratitude
What a delight it was to see people come together for HASTAC 2019! Gathering in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam community to think collectively about decolonizing education and technology was revelatory to me, a white woman of settler origin with little background in Indigenous studies or practices. After a year (maybe […]
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Teaching Public Writing in the Graduate Seminar
In Fall 2018, I attended an event at my college organized by my colleague Cori McKenzie on “Innovations in English Language Arts Teaching and Learning.” In this event, McKenzie’s graduate students presented their research projects in progress, on topics ranging from the importance of multimodal composition to teaching diverse books in the K-12 classroom. I […]