Reflecting on all the wonderful things participants at the resonant listening workshop discussed, I continue to reflect on what I take to be an unfulfilled promise of educational technology. When I was in graduate school, I worked for the EdLab, a group committed to thinking through how technology might transform education. One issue we talked […]
Today, I offered a brief presentation on resonant listening, where participants discussed Hartmut Rosa’s work on resonance and a worksheet from the University of Minnesota on listening and mentoring. When I think about resonance and its significance for mentoring, I think about the challenges of balancing efficient advising with creating spaces to uncover new interests […]
I am excited about St. Lawrence’s work with NetVue, and I am grateful that NetVue‘s blog Vocation Matters published my recent essay on AI and Resonance. In “Responding to AI with a Resonant Education,” I suggest residential liberal arts colleges are uniquely positioned to respond to the threat of AI because we are places where […]
I am excited to introduce a guest post by Jessica Sierk, Associate Professor of Education and NY6 Academic Leadership Fellow. If you are interested in writing a guest post for the blog, please find more information about CITA’s scholarship of teaching grant here. In this past year of experimenting with labor-based contract grading, I’ve done a lot of thinking […]
As we come to the end of the spring semester, looking forward to summer, I invite you to consider what you might want to share about your teaching with our community and the wider community of teacher-scholars. K-12 teachers often engage in action research projects, where they implement new strategies into their classrooms and then […]
Here are the long-awaited episodes 3 and 4 of the advising podcast hosted by Jen, Elun, and Tina. Episode 3 focuses on “The Practical” – what advisors need to know to be good advisors. Episode 4, entitled “The Policies and Procedures”, covers the nuts and bolts information that advisors should know and where to find that information if […]
ChatGPT is making it easier for students to engage in academic dishonesty and ChatGPT is also making it harder for us to detect academic dishonesty. I fear that this problem will only get worse. The ease with which one can cheat will only increase over time. Our best hope, it would seem to me, is […]
Nel Noddings, a giant in the field of philosophy of education, recently passed away. Noddings was best known for introducing care ethics into the field of education, and her work revolutionized the ways that scholars and practitioners think about the purposes of education. As much as education is about cultivating academic skills, it is also […]
At our upcoming liberal education journal club meeting, we are going to discuss the recent Chronicle piece “Teaching in an Age of Militant Apathy.” The idea that college students are militantly apathetic is an interesting lens to view our post-pandemic world. I also think it is worthwhile to counterbalance this argument with Agnes Callard’s very […]
I am very excited to announce a multi-part series (the first two of which are available now), where Jen Thomas, Tina Tao, and Elun Gabriel discuss different aspects of academic advising. The first episode focuses on the philosophical question of what it means to be a good advisor. In the second episode, they share their strategies for connecting […]