This morning I was grading work for a 2-credit, half-semester course I teach called ClusterRead More
Category: pedagogy
The Strength of Kindness
1. Take a moment, settle yourself, and note your immediate emotional response to these words:Read More
Extending the Mind
This summer, I recommended to everyone I encountered that they take an hour and listenRead More
The Grindr Model of Education
He is the corporate Silence: dread him not! No power hath he of evil inRead More
Instead of Rigor: Play and Risk
Buildings and bridgesare made to bend in the windto withstand the worldthat’s what it takes.AllRead More
Show & Tell
Last weekend, I took an online seminar (via The Shipman Agency) led by Garth Greenwell,Read More
When Students Have Power by Ira Shor
Published almost 25 years ago, Ira Shor’s When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in aRead More
MLA 2020: “(Against) The Syllabus as an Instrument of Cruelty”
At this year’s MLA Convention, I was a member of a great panel discussing “TheRead More
Assignment: Low-Tech Research
Here’s an assignment I recently developed and tested out on a group of students andRead More