On #LearnersRights: Utilitarian Models, Implementation, and Egalitarian Access
This week I asked my students to read, analyze, and share their perspective on the Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age. I had this discussion across three classes of advanced...
View ArticleDirty Little Secret: I’m a Teacher
Let me preface by saying I don’t really want to talk about MOOCs. The conversation about MOOCs is too polarizing, as Cathy Davidson recently articulated, and it seems to me that the focus on MOOCs is...
View Article“It’s Just A Joke” and Other Things People Say to Defend Prejudice
UPDATE: After writing this post last week, yet another example–one that dovetails with my other interest, technology–came to light. Adria Richards, an employee of SendGrid, was fired from her job after...
View ArticleStorify for Composition: Some Successes and Some Epic Fails
This semester I elected to use Storify for my beginning composition classes for their first two writing projects. My pedagogical justification for using the site was two-fold. First, as a social media...
View ArticleThoughts on Feminist Pedagogy, Trolling, and Flaming in First-Year Writing...
In my last post for this year’s Day of DH, I blogged about an article I read recently in the context of a current project. I am working on a multifaceted project about the opportunities for feminist...
View Article“Digital Future(s)” Dream Course: Engaging the Print vs. Technology Debates
I took this summer off. As in, really took it off. I didn’t teach, I didn’t write, I didn’t really do research, I didn’t do course prep. I took the summer off. In part, this was a post-graduate...
View ArticleFive Things Faculty Can Actually Do About the Academy, Part 4: On the...
I have started the previous posts in this series with negative aspects or problems in the academy that need to be solved. As academics, we are often trained to operate this way, and that can be a good...
View ArticleFive Things, Part 5: Cross Posted at Medium, “To Negate That Which Negates Us”
While I’m working on some decisions about my public writing, the conclusions to my “Five Things” series can be read over here at Medium.
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