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Collaborative Close Reading
Close reading - observing the stylistic details of a text in order to analyze an author’s use of language - is a skill taught in almost all college...
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Valuing Diversity in Teaching, Even when Others Don't
Recently, a friend and I commiserated on social media about students in classes feeling like there is too much focus on queerness. In her course on...
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That's So Gay!: CCNY's first queer-led queer studies FIQWS
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End-of-Term Evaluations are Learning Opportunities
In addition to asking for course evaluations from my students (and Cathy N. Davidson has a great template and post about " Building a Better Course...
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Revolutionize Lectures
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Podcasting and Pedagogy: Suggestions for Guiding Students as they Introduce Sensitive Issues
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LLG3 - The Holiday Hosting Module
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dBPvM-oSM8 The LLG 3 group presents a 12 minute module regarding a few, easy to make, holiday themed food and drinks...
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Technology Makes the Classroom a Better Place
Technology has long been on the front lines of education. According to Laura Gray in “History of Technology in the Classroom,” in the 1950s, some “...
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In Your Lecture, Research Together
Originally published on October 26, 2017 in a post about teaching Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God . Start with What Students Know...
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Individual Learning Principles
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Active Learning Activities You Can Use in Your Classroom Now
For a recent Futures Initiative event " Classrooms and Social Justice: Why Start with Pedagogy? " which was part of the University Worth Fighting For...
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Ten weird tricks for resisting surveillance capitalism in and through the classroom . . . next term!
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A Lesson Plan for Democratic Co-Creation: Forging a Syllabus by Students, for Students
This is an excerpt from a longer post published on November 12, 2018. Read the original post here . Earlier in the semester, I wrote a post about...
