The literature on Digital Natives addresses three themes: a skill-divided generation, what about technology is important, and what technology is important. A skill-divided generation refers to a non-homogeneous generation of technology users that are composed of power...
Teaching in higher ed, there are many times when we add requirements or resources to our class, only to wonder later if they are beneficial to the students. Below are some conversations with a freshman that echo my experiences with students over the last few years as...
I get stressed, sometimes, by all of the grading and emailing that’s required of me in the middle of the semester, and by the unending to-do list I keep running in my brain. For work, I have a three column to-do list that, when not woefully neglected, works really...
Perhaps some of you have seen the video circulating on Facebook lately that features a collection of college students supposedly lining up for a race. But before the race begins, students answer questions that allow some of them to move ahead of their peers. The point...
I got a teaching ego check recently. I agreed to teach a section of ENG220 Technical Writing this term, my first online teaching experience. No problem, I thought, I got this. I was confident going in, but teaching online has been a lot more challenging than I...
Violent communication in our society is a result of training. We yell at each other, and we blame, judge, dominate and evaluate. According to Marshall Rosenberg, this form of communication is not our natural state. Rosenberg, founder of The Center for Nonviolent...
