We are often asked to carefully break down exactly how the “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education” course is structured. It seems more complex than it is but since, to […]
Archive | April, 2015
Stanford Offers Free Tuition If Your Family Earns Less than 125K. What if you earn 12.5K? Poverty and College Success Rates
[This is reblogged from hastac.org, April 2, 2015] Stanford announced a remarkable new program today, that in the future students whose parents earn less than $125,000 will be able to […]
TODAY, 6:30pm: Lecture by Distinguished Writer Rebecca Solnit, City College
Rebecca Solnit’s maps have been among the inspiration behind some of the mapping ideas we’ve been developing through this course, and she is speaking this evening, April 2 at City […]
Option 1
Option 1 I have learned that from Under a Cruel Star so far that Heda Margolius Kovaly sparked my interest and something that i didn’t know life was hard and […]
Relevant History
As we all know, the memoir, Under a Cruel Star took place in Czechoslovakia. At the time Czechoslovak’s were experiencing massive amounts of racism and discrimination. People who followed the […]
Happy I Had a Rubric
When our Mapping the Futures class focused on Assessment, group one asked us to implement or create a rubric for our classes. My initial reaction was not positive–I’ve used rubrics […]
option#1.
Throughout history, I’ve learned about the holocaust. If you personally asked me to define it, I would tell you that is was a long affair of anti-Semitism; It was mainly […]
option 2) Anti- Semitism, a timeless historical feature, unfortunately.
What is Anti- Semitism? Anti- Semitism is a discrimination, prejudice or hostility against Jews. Anti- Semitism is a timeless historical feature, it has been going on for many generations and […]
Teaching and Time-Keeping
This post was inspired in part by Natalie Oshukany’s excellent blog post from last week (On Watching the Clock: Student-Centered Review Session) which begins: “Despite my best efforts, I ran […]
Ferdous Daoud Assiognment #2
Ferdous Daoud Assignment #2 During the time of the Holocaust and after the Holocaust Heda Kovaly had gone through series of events that had completely changed the way she viewed […]
