Category: Reflections on Teaching

• November 17, 2023

  Me and ChatGPT

  This is a post by Dr. Deana A. Rohlinger for the Fall 2023 Newsletter In Spring 2023, a feeling of existential dread overcame me every time I looked at education news. You probably saw similar headlines: I teach a large online, upper division, writing intensive course titled New Media and Social Change. How was I…
• October 7, 2023

  Agency and Action: Using Project-Based Pedagogy to Give Undergraduates More Control Over their Studies

  This is a post by Dr. Juliette Wilson-Thomas for the Fall 2023 Newsletter Caption: Street art project with children from a local primary school painting a mural on their school wall in Manchester. Picture Source Juliette Wilon-Thomas Since former UK  Prime Minister Tony Blair’s vow to get 50% of young people into university in 1999…
• May 22, 2020

  How do we “teach the virus”? Challenges and Resources for teaching COVID-19

  By Katherine Darling, University of Maine at Augusta In the chaos of a pandemic, how do we teach the virus? Ann Fausto-Sterling laid down this challenge on Twitter as we were all flung into “emergency remote teaching” in March 2020. The pedagogical and logistical challenges of closing our universities and going online were compounded by…
• March 12, 2020

  A reminder to breathe from Ellen Samuels

  (social media post quoted with permission) “MUSINGS ABOUT CLASSES GOING ONLINE AND CRIP PEDAGOGIES OF IMPERFECTION I have decades of experience as a sick and disabled instructor, being my own personal medical emergency, needing to flexibly and rapidly adapt my teaching according to my own changing abilities as well as those of my students. I’m…