Category: Higher Education
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1st Assignment: How to Write a Professional Email
In this first assignment of the year, inspired by Professor of English and History at Schoolcraft College, Steven L. Berg, students in my EC1 ALP course at NJCU will write a professional email introducing themselves and share a 200-word response to the question, “What should we be writing about right now?” Or, more specifically, what topic would be […]
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Differentiated Learning Should be Key to Anti-Racist Learning (and vice versa)
My apologies for going a bit MIA over the last months. My excuse (shameless plug alert!!!) was that I was co-writing a book (with Steve Volk, co-director of the GLCA/GLAA Consortium on Teaching and Learning) with very short window (The Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College: A Manifesto for Reinvention). Excited that it will be released on […]
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Simon Says Mindfulness Enhances Learning
As a group we watched, “Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last,” a Pop-Up School presentation sponsored by Behance. Then, an EdX MOOC entitled, “Mindfulness and Resilience to Stress at Work”. Collectively, our varying perspectives identified positive and negative aspects within the format of each learning experience as well as how our unique learning styles received […]
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“Trust Your Students” – Remote Summit 2020
On Monday, July 13, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis presented at the REMOTE summit hosted by Arizona State University. Our talk, “Trust Your Students,” was about co-learning and using active learning tools like Think-Pair-Share and Entry and Exit Tickets to support peer-to-peer learning in a community, whether onsite or online. At our session, there were […]
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“Why are so many of your @CUNY colleagues dying?”
“Why are so many of your @CUNY colleagues dying?” For those not on Twitter, I have cut-and-pasted this Twitter thread as a blog. 1-“Why are so many of your @CUNY colleagues dying?” This is the question I’m being asked since an @insidehighered article reported on 38+ faculty and staff COVID deaths. No one has even […]
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Both a Grad Student and Instructor: Advocating for Compassionate Teaching During a Global Health Pandemic
The Spring 2020 semester is over and now it’s time to to reflect on what teaching during this seemingly apocalyptic semester meant to me. For many teachers and instructors, Covid-19 transformed how we interacted with our students and approached our pedagogical methods because we could no longer see or engage with our students in person […]
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Open Resources to Grow Pedagogies of Care: Student-Centered and Adaptive Strategies
Sixteen leading college and university educators have produced a collection of open-source resources, which focus on the notion of care, to share expert insights for faculty amid emergency remote instruction. The materials are based on pedagogy from their recent books, all of which have been —or will soon be—published, in West Virginia University Press’ Teaching […]
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Between Us: Practicing the Future in Uncertain Times
I enrolled in Engaged Teaching and Transformative Learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences led by Profs. Cathy Davidson and Eduardo Vianna because I hoped it would help me build a stronger, more theoretically grounded, transformative/activist agenda through my scholarly, pedagogical, and administrative work at the helm a platform for publicly-engaged research addressing societal urgencies […]
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Reflections on Adapting In-class Activities for Online: Smarties and Dum Dums Activity
As a graduate student at CUNY, I have the wonderful opportunity to be both a student in coursework and an undergraduate instructor at the same time. Reflecting back on this Spring 2020 semester, I found the transition to distance learning challenging and left much to be desired, including my attempts to convert activities from an […]
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Examining glitches, switches, and weaponized elements of educational technologies
Image Credit: Raoul Roberts created the above visualization titled Glitches, Switches, and Weaponized Elements inspired by our class session and readings. His reflections on the class session and explanation of the visualization are included in his reflection. The Context In spring 2020, the students and educators in our class Engaged Teaching and Transformative Learning in the Humanities and Social […]