• Scholar Spotlight: Donna Langille

    Why did you apply to HASTAC?I applied to HASTAC for the opportunity to meet and work with other graduate students with similar research interests in these disciplines. I was also impressed and inspired after attending the HASTAC conference in June 2023 on “Critical Making and Social Justice” where I met so many researchers working at…

  • Scholar Spotlight: Catherine A. Evans

    Why did you apply to HASTAC? HASTAC’s accessible, welcoming, and intentional approach drew me to apply as I looked beyond my institution for further opportunities to meet other early career researchers who value collaborative cross-disciplinary research. My work at Carnegie Mellon has ranged from learning with labor activists to designing and delivering accessible educational materials…

  • CFP: Submissions for The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy special issue – Labor, Political Economy, and Activism

    Themed Issue 24: Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation Issue Editors: Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue University Gabriel Hankins, Clemson University Anna Alexis Larsson, Indiana University The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work at the intersection of technology with teaching, learning, and research for a…

  • Scholar Spotlight: Savannah P. Fitzpatrick

    Why did you apply to HASTAC? When I learned about HASTAC Scholars, I was in the midst of preparing for my thesis defense. As the time left in the final semester of my master’s program dwindled, I grew increasingly more aware of the inevitable divide between myself and the world of academics that would reveal…

  • Review- Chapter Six ‘Activities for any day of the term’ in ‘The New College Classroom’ by Christina Katopodis and Cathy Davidson.

    It’s Monday morning. You are rushing to your class, which begins, it seems, before the crack of dawn. You haven’t figured out a brilliant, thoughtful way to engage your students and change their lives… Reading these opening lines from the sixth chapter of Christina Katopodis and Cathy N. Davidson’s guide to ‘The New College Classroom,’…

  • Chapter 10 Review: “Feedback that Really Works”, from The New College Classroom

    The concept of transformative learning, which takes place through quality, timely feedback, is explored in The New College Classroom, Chapter 10 “Feedback That Really Works.” Cathy Davidson and Christina Katopodis encourage a 360-degree feedback method that considers self reflection, peer feedback, and instructor assessment to create an all-encompassing model that encourages learning across multiple realms.…

  • Review: The New College Classroom

    This volume by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis situates itself as a guidebook to rethinking and restructuring traditional teaching, and subsequently learning, practices for a modern, diverse, and equitable college classroom. The authors set out to provide practical answers to an essential question—namely, how can we “teach for every student—not only for the ones…

  • Chapter Review for The New College Classroom–Chapter 3: Teaching is Mentoring

    In their book, The New College Classroom, authors Davidson and Katopodis attempt to provide a framework for educators to create student-centered learning environments that benefit learners and faculty alike, as they offer a scaffolded approach to building community and fostering active learning.   Structured into two main sections that the authors named Changing Ourselves and Changing…

  • Chapter 12: What could possibly go wrong?

    Review This chapter sees co-authors Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis of The New College Classroom offering tangible, adaptable approaches for classrooms of any level. The discussion is initially grounded in conversations that Davidson and Katopodis had held with other educators who seemed to encounter moments of “failure” that evidently threw progressive classroom teaching methods…

  • “The New College Classroom” Chapter 4 Review: “Before the First Class”

    Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis’s 2022 thorough yet approachable book The New College Classroom seeks to transform the university learning experience into one that is more interactive and engaging than the current standard techniques of lectures and controlled discussions. This guide for integrating what they term “participatory learning” is rooted in prior conceptions of…