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 […]
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 […]
The lead image comes from Donald Harward’s introduction to an excellent volume Well-Being and Higher Education. I’ve been thinking a great deal about Harward’s essay–and the entire volume–because I’ve been thinking a lot about what it would mean for a liberal arts college to really make good on the promise to educate the whole student […]
The start of the semester is about setting a tone of excitement that drives engagement. We need to remind our students–and ourselves!–that what we do together in the classroom matters. One way to do this is to center our instruction and learning goals on essential questions. What are essential questions? An essential question is a […]
As colleges, and schools more generally, discuss the wide-ranging implications of ChatGPT for the future of education, I also encourage us to revisit our approach to student devices in the classroom. Several years ago, I resisted blanket technology bans and what I viewed as punitive device policies. But as we emerge from the pandemic, a […]
I hope the new semester is off to a great start! As one semester begins, we are reminded of the previous semester in the form of student course evaluations that are landing in our mailboxes now. At the end of each semester, students offer their opinion of our teaching, and–as we know–how students perceive our […]