Before spring break I gave my Roots students a Midterm Formative Assessment Survey. Below is a summary of their answers. The results of this survey bring to light many of the issues that arise when […]
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CHE Piece About Our Course Comes Out On Friday, April 17
Hi everyone, Before I forget: We need you to make edits to the language for the Futures Initiative Scholar certificate (and for your students’ and your resumes). A version was […]
Technology as Passport: Degrees of Separation and Movement of Ideas
Hi all, I wanted to offer some thoughts on using technology as a passport into a different kind of educational space. This isn’t a new space that I’m outlining – […]
What Does It Mean To Earn a Futures Initiative Scholar Certificate?
Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying a great break. After break, one consistent and serious focus for our course will be on what your undergraduates are doing, how you […]
How It All Works: Breaking Down the Structure and Purpose of “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education”
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Propaganda Pitches: More Adventures in Student-Centered Pedagogy
By Irene Morrison-Moncure on March 29, 2015 in formative assessment, Reflection, student-centered pedagogy
Last week I tried out another student-centered activity in my Roots class. All semester I have been attempting to transform many of my mini-lectures into activities where the students present […]
What If Group Work Led to Papers and a Panel?
Over on Facebook, where I get a lot of my education on pedagogy, one of my former students posted a very modest comment about, as she was rushing to throw […]
