Category: Higher Education
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Two IHE Articles on Teaching in a Pandemic: Community and Assessment
Here are two compassionate, useful articles about teaching in a pandemic. Both were coauthored with Christina Katopodis, I’ve (an extraordinary English doctoral student, Futures Initiative Fellow, and prize-winning adjunct teacher at Hunter). She and I are writing Transforming Every Classroom: A Practical Guide (due out in 2022 from Harvard UP). “ This one is about the […]
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The Inspiring “Adjusted Syllabus” by UNC Prof Brandon Bayne
Check out this inspiring syllabus by Prof Brandon Bayne of the University of North Carolina! Adjusted Syllabus Spring 2020 Brandon Bayne UNC – Chapel Hill Principles 1. Nobody signed up for this. Not for the sickness, not for the social distancing, not for the sudden end of our collective lives together on […]
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From Cardi B to Stranger Things: Finding the Sonic Narrative
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay This post is the first in a series that relates to my HASTAC webinar “From Cardi B to Stranger Things: Using Popular Culture in the Writing Classroom.” In this post I explore intertextuality–how texts rely on other texts to make meaning–as an important way to help students work through the […]
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Reflections: Teaching writing & critical thinking; giving feedback to students
One of the critiques I got from a student’s evaluation of my teaching last year was that I spent a lot of time telling them what not to do in their papers, and not enough time explaining how to fix their writing problems. This specific instance of teaching was especially challenging for me, since I […]
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Feb. 28, 2020: Richard Marciano Launches the Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC) after Directing the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) for 5 Years
Richard Marciano is pleased to announce the founding and launching of the AIC Collaboratory (“Advanced Information Collaboratory”) on Feb. 28, 2020! Computational Archival Science (CAS) Symposium at the Alan Turing Institute at the British Library on Jan. 20 & 21, 2020. After founding, starting up, and directing the DCIC (Digital Curation Innovation Center) for the last five years, Richard Marciano has […]
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Nietzsche’s Three Metamorphoses and an unexpected PBL Class: How I Got To Where I Am Now
As I’ve been writing these blog posts and thinking about my thesis, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how I got here. I’m a senior, biochemistry major writing my thesis about education. How did this even happen? In the bio of my group “An Exploration into PBL by a Curious Undergraduate”, I […]
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Paddles & Pedagogy: An Environmentally Grounded Learning Experience with Dean Carrie Nolan
Progressive Pedagogy is thrilled to share the unique work of Carrie Nolan, Dean of Strategic Initiatives at Coast Mountain College in British Columbia (North West Region). Dean Nolan takes her experience as a cross Canada paddler and uses it to inform experiential learning experiences. Dean Nolan teaches Paddles & Pedagogy, as well as courses in […]
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Making the Most of Student Participation using Surveys with Ms. Paula Patch
Ms. Paula Patch is a Senior Lecturer in English and Assistant Director for First-Year Initiatives at Elon University, where she previously coordinated the first-year writing program and has taught composition and grammar courses since 2006. She currently teaches First-year writing, first-year seminar, literature for non-majors. In all her classrooms, Ms. Patch makes use of surveys. […]
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Bridges into the Workplace: One-on-One Student Meetings with Professor Luis Bonilla
Today on Progressive Pedagogy, we turn to student centered advising with Professor Luis Bonilla. Professor Bonilla is a Professor of Practice and Director of the Digital Audiences Lab at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He teaches the course Digital Audiences Lab where he “helps students learn how to research […]
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Promoting Student Transformation at the Community College
I am very proud that HASTAC has published, as an Open Educational Resource (OER), my book Promoting Student Transformation at the Community College: If Everything Happens That Can’t Be Done. HASTAC describes it as: “A narrative guide to teaching, featuring practical pedagogical advice for engaging students and addressing a variety of student needs.” Each chapter […]