Category: Pedagogy
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“I really don’t care, do u:” Performances of Care and Conjuring American Exceptionalism
On June 21st, 2018, Melania Trump boarded a plane to visit an immigration detention center in Texas holding immigrant children who were separated from their families. Melania Trump’s supposed reason for the visit was to see the facilities for herself after she had lobbied her husband, then President Donald Trump, to change his policy on […]
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What teaching writing taught me about my own work
When I was younger, I used to weave fantasies about what it might be like to be a writer when I grew up. I read voraciously at the time, with no discerning taste. My writing was similarly haphazard. I drew from the styles of authors I fell in love with. First Tamora Pierce and J.D. […]
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New guide for educators in optimising independence in sixth form learning
For immediate release 1 November 2021 New guide for educators in optimising independence in sixth form learning Facet Publishing announce the publication of Facilitating Effective Sixth Form Independent Learning by Andrew K. Shenton For young people who have opted to continue their education post-sixteen, it is difficult to overstate the importance of the independent learning […]
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How Does Your Grad Dept Prepare Students to Teach? An Open, Crowdsourced @HASTAC Project
You’re invited to contribute! In 2019, we crowdsourced a document and collected twenty-nine pages of information on “Graduate Programs Requiring Instruction In Teaching (inc For-Credit Courses)” . The document includes user-supplied information on graduate programs across the US and Canada, in many fields (at a glance, I see English, Psychology, Public Health, Spanish, Neuroscience, etc) […]
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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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Tabla Rasa
Whew! What a school year! And it isn’t over yet. All us virtual teachers at my school have one more week to go. Today was the last day for our students. I still have that gulp in my throat from saying goodbyes to my students. Today was my last class. We did a lesson on […]
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Visualizing Comics Using Wikidata
I’m mindful that the summer is time for “academic” rest. This is to say, a lot of work is done that could not be done during the academic year. However, it is also a time to call attention to those meaningful partnerships and collaborations that made the year worthwhile. I’m especially pleased that the Graphic […]
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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.