Posted by in GRAD 5114 A wise TA once said that during a class discussion about innovation in education. We discussed the use of technology and the inclusion of distance learners in our blended classroom and may (or may not) have been a bit persnikety about the realities of the gadgets we used: because even though it’s 2018, we still…Read more »
Posted by in GRAD 5114 “Persistence in the face of a skeptical authority figure is priceless. And yet we undermine it.” –Seth Godin As I was listening to Seth Godin get all fired up about what precisely school is for, I was struck by his comment concerning authority figures. I wholeheartedly agree with the crux of his talk–that we as…Read more »
Posted by in GRAD 5114 Last winter, between New Years and the beginning of the Spring Semester, I took a course called Immersive Virtual Environments for Art, Data, and Research. It’s my favorite class at Tech and everything from the teachers (Zach Duer and Tanner Upthegrove–easily two of the coolest and nerdiest humans alive) to the material to my classmates were…Read more »
Posted by in GRAD 5114 In deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise, we stopped listening to our senses and started obeying the clock. –Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” This past week, I sat in my Contemporary Pedagogy Class thinking about the things I’d read over the weekend, most of which were about attention and…Read more »
Posted by in GRAD 5114 First things first, I really should not have read an article called The Dreaded Teaching Statement days before actually writing my own teaching statement. That was not a good idea at all. Also, for anyone else out there who plans to write or revise their own teaching statements, don’t do what I did unless you…Read more »
Posted by in GRAD 5114 “All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall…” So, we all have visions of The Ideal School in our heads, but we are also aware of the fact that the school systems in which we were taught we not ideal (though for a lucky few of you, they came quite close). We have…Read more »
Posted by in GRAD 5114 So, my classmates and I were given a mission: create a diversity statement, and if we needed some help doing that, there were several resources to get us started. One of the things that stuck with me about the readings was the emphasis on the difficult conversations that inevitably arise in learning environments where many…Read more »
Posted by in GRAD 5114 “The privilege of being able to go to a library and find a book that has a character on the cover that looks like you. A book that has a story that is about you or as simple as watching a commercial and finding a product to shampoo your hair. To learn about that from…Read more »
Posted by in GRAD 5114 In the interest of disclosure, I was a little rusty on the syllabi fro my own classes when the topic of syllabus design came up in our Contemporary Pedagogy class. We created draft syllabi for classes for which we served as TAs or for The College Course of Our Wildest Dreams™, and then we went…Read more »
Posted by in GRAD 5114 I take my inspiration this week from Popeye, because if there’s anyone who really doesn’t give a flying saucer in space what anybody thinks, it’s that guy. Anywhooo… I was reading the posts of my fellow students, and there was a consensus that, in spite of everything else we’ve seen about how to be a…Read more »