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Democracy, justice, and teaching
There’s been a fascinating discussion developing in response to Aaron Schutz’s review of Jeannie Oakes and John Rogers’s Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice (2006). Sometimes comment threads develop in a few hours. This one is still growing after a few months.
Why vocabulary makes a difference
Notes on student misunderstandings of vocabulary, and how that affects performance: citation vs. quotation. One is acknowledging one’s sources, and the other is using exact passages and making those passages typographically distinct. Some students misunderstood my advice to cite several sources and turned in drafts where more than half of the words were quoted. I […]
Reading… but not what you think
Yes, I was at a local bookstore at midnight, getting two copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. But I’m in my office this afternoon, reading student papers. I don’t get the Harry Potter until I’m done. In other news, Jeff Solochek reports correctly that I’m now the representative of the Florida Coalition for […]
The discussion glow
I left the classroom for a few minutes this evening, after telling students to arrange themselves in small groups, making sure that each group had at least one member who had read each of the two books I had assigned the class (half to Gilberto Conchas’s The Color of Success and half to David Tyack’s […]
When have you had online "aha" moments reacting to others?
For the first time in five years, my distance-learning course is asynchronous, without a live chat, and this poses an interesting challenge. Oh, heck, let me be honest: at some level I’m terrified at the prospect of an asynchronous-only class, because my teaching style relies heavily on the timed revelation of material and ideas, commonly in […]