A Justice Site
California State University, Dominguez Hills This article reports a study in which graduate students were guided through critical thinking through Web access, and discusses ways in which this might be used for undergraduates. It matters to us because Dear Habermas affords us just such opportunities.
Multimedia Educational Repository for Learning and Online Teaching Chronicle of Higher Education The Social Construction of Functional Illiteracy Literacy as a Status Characteristic Authentication and the Narrative of Learning Identity Writers Acquiring the Literacy of Their Craft Radical Pedagogy James J. O'Donnell: Publication The National Teaching and Learning Forum
The Scholarship of Teaching Learning Theory Technology and Classroom Authority Facilitating Student Learning: Classroom Assessments that Inform Instruction The Teaching Professor Facilitating Student Learning: Classroom Assessments that Inform Instruction Toward a Holistic Biology The Idea of the University "The Learning-Centered Syllabus", by Mary L. Beaudry and Tracey Schaub, in Vol.12, No. 3, February 1998. Discusses in the problems of communicating the specificity of what the professor wants to the student. Uses the example: "students must understand specific types of literature." Both "understand" and "specific" are unclear, not well-defined. The authors suggest a change to something like: "students must be able to explicate a lyric poem tht has been discussed in class." Our bet is that now we will find problems with "explicate." Much of that is because we have long ago ceased to try for genuine communication with our students. We need to keep up the work suggested by this article.
In terms of discourse, we find it equally important that students be permitted to contribute their peceptions of what "understand" means. For our present work with this look at Forms to Guide Us Through Interactive Measures of Assessment and see the Givner article.
The Teaching Professor Scroll down past the National Teaching and Learning Forum. Not on-line. E-mail:grg@psu.edu
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Created: August 9, 2000
Latest Update: January 18, 2001
Curran or
Takata.
Winter Break 2001 additions:
Jacqueline K. Bowman,Eastern Connecticut State Univ., Marsha Davis, Eastern Connecticut State Univ.
Issues on the democratization of science and technology. How can ordinary folks experience any agency in decision-making on AIDS, on labor and consumption patterns in globalization, on the genome project? One of the contributors to this text is Steven Epstein, whose book on Impure Science we have discussed.
Summer Stuff
This Resources Page will be organized by categories, but on August 9, I'm still just sorting through the categories. Suggestions welcome. jeanne
Learning Patterns
Recommended by Buckholdt Associates, a UK group on self esteem. One of their articles is on Emotiaonlly Intelligent Children. And emotionally literate adults would be nice, too. Link added August 2, 2000.
Compare to Bloom and Krathwohl, Cognitive and Affective Domains of Learning.
Strategic Literacy Initiative
Strategic Literacy Initiative
by Anthony Rosie, in Active Learning in Higher Education, Volume 01, Issue 01, July 2000. Abstract online.
by Mary Thorpe, in Active Learning in Higher Education, Volume 01, Issue 01, July 2000. Abstract online.
lInk to New Tools for Teaching in the left-most frame, then link to James O'Donnell's extensive review in the section titled: Who is this talking, please? That section is almost halfway down the file. This piece relates to the influence technology has on the academy, and some much overdo examination of the need to restructure the academy beyond a local to a more cosmopolitan community that allows "specialized clusters to emerge."
Readable. Good focus on Lanham's primary theme: that we should teach rhetoric for non-linear thinking, as we teach logic for linear thinking. Very much a part of the modernist/postmodernist debate.
See also About Jim Andrew's VISPO Site.
Andrews is a computer developer, artist, and poet. Very different approach from O'Donnell's.
Technology and Higher Education
Assessment
Collaborative Teaching
Collaborative Learning
New Stuff
Teaching into Practice
On learning theories. Good
Link added February 14, 2000
Learning Theories
California State University Web Site
Link added August 27, 1999.
Link added July 25, 1999.
Notes on functional illiteracy as learned incompetence.
Link added June 22,
1999.
Those that can "read" well are smarter, more creative, more worthy of attention in school,
or so they seem to think. Link updated June 23, 1999
Interdependent Approaches to Assessment. Link added June 25, 1999.
A context that sounds much like the academy. Link added June 23, 1999.
LINKS
Parenting Concerns
Got a Friend Who Needs to Take the GED?
Link added June 27, 1999.
Many on line. Most on technology and university teaching.
Link added on June 22, 1999.
University of Indiana. Online articles and abstracts of faculty publications.
Link added July 19, 1999.
from Curran and Takata, Women's Difference, Women's Prize
Link added on June 22, 1999.
Teaching to and authenticating competence.
Link added on June 27, 1999.
article by Christine C. Givner. Link courtesy of Faculty Development SOA, added June 21, 1999.
Notes from an article on gaining student participation.
Link added June 21, 1999.
article by Christine C. Givner. Link courtesy of Faculty Development SOA, added June 21, 1999.
Prof. Bruce K. Kirchoff's site, drawing connections beteen art and biology. Link added June 21, 1999.
This page of the site offers John Henry Cardinal Newman's Idea of a University,
and Pirsig's, Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance, description of the university.
Link added July 18, 1999.
from The Teaching Professor
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