Category: Higher Education
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101 Student-centered Syllabus for Intentional & Accessible Learning
Instructor: Nik Valdez, they/them/theirs Class Meeting: Monday 3:30-4:15 Office Hours: Monday 3-3:30 or by appointment Email: Land Acknowledgements: The City College of New York remains settled on the sacred land of the Munsee Lenape & Wappinger Peoples. The Graduate Center remains settled on the sacred land of the Munsee Lenape Peoples. Languages: huluníixsuwaakan (Munsee),…
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Announcing Upddated Edition of The New Education (Coming Spring 2022)
I’m so pleased to announce that Basic Books is publishing a new, updated version of “The New Education” (2017), in paper, with a new Introduction. The new version–with its bold new cover–also includes an appendix that supplements the “how to do college” for students and “how to improve teaching” for professors with a “how to…
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New Paperback Edition! Promoting Student Transformation at the Community College by Steve Berg
We are very pleased to announce that Promoting Student Transformation at the Community College by Professor Steven L. Berg of Schoolcraft College (Livonia, MI) is now available in print. Two different paperback versions are offered at production cost: a full color edition ($14.56), which includes fifty photomontages by the author, and a black-and-white edition ($5.80). These editions follow the 2020 HASTAC open-source publication of the work…
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Digital Fridays Video Playlist
In case you missed them, you can watch many of the webinars in this series on Youtube.
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Looking Back at COVID-19
COVID-19 has been hard on all of us. I teach Principles in Health Science to undergraduate students at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. I’ve been teaching this class for several years. When COVID-19 first arrived and instructors paused in-person classes, I had to effectively and quickly move to on-line instruction. Way back in…
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A Tip to Ward off Zoombification (And Get You Through to End of Term)
Feeling not-yet-at-the-finish-line exhaustion? Zoomed out? Facing Zoombification, your own and your students? Here’s something our TLH team did yesterday in the middle of an hour-long conference presentation on antiracist pedagogy that resonated with some 95 colleagues. It works in any synchronous online classroom or meeting to instantly change the energy level and keep us all…
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“I Wake Up Counting”: A Free Online Publication of Syllabi and Activities from our Spring 2020 Course
“FOREWORD” to I WAKE UP COUNTING Genera Editor, Tatiana Ades A Manifold Publication https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/i-wake-up-counting It is a great pleasure to write this Foreword to I Wake Up Counting: A Guide to Transformative Teaching & Learning in the Humanities & Social Sciences. This book is both a document and a guide. It documents an extraordinary student-led…
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Teaching With The Digital Archive
For students who are just learning how to wield digital literacy and assess sources in a critical fashion, digital archives provide a ready source of analysis. As a MA student at Oklahoma State University, I taught a section of First Year Writing which included the archive as a site of digital literacy. In introducing students…
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Returning to the Classroom
This spring, I’ll be co-teaching a course that I’m really excited about, along with my colleague Matt Brim: Equity, Elitism, and Public Higher Education. We are teaching together as part of the Futures Initiative’s slate of interdisciplinary team-taught courses. The opportunity to teach is significant for me: the last time I taught in the formal,…
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Feminism, Activism, and the Digital Humanities: An Interview with Danica Savonick
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Danica Savonick over the phone on May 18, 2020. I am grateful for her time and energy towards this project and especially appreciate the opportunity to elevate her important insights about the transformative power and potential risks of using digital technologies in the classroom. As the pandemic ravages on, her considerations here remain…