A new year always means opportunities for reflection. For the CUNY Peer Leaders, it is an opportunity to tap into embodied experiences. On February 2, 2024, the current cohort of […]
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If Academe is Part of the Problem of Inequality and Oligarchy, What’s Our Solution?
Here’s a link my morning hastac.org blog, in our Futures Initiative group: “If Academe is Part of the Problem, What’s Our Solution?” http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2015/02/24/if-academe-part-problem-inequality-and-oligarchy-what-solution-futur This begins with a new study that […]
Literacy: Assessable or Inconclusive?
I just finished teaching a literacy course, called “Intensive Reading.” I think of this class like an intensive yoga workshop that focuses on building our practices slowly but effectively. The […]
Anatomy’s Assessment of Assessment
Last Tuesday’s in-class discussion of assessment strategies really got my juices flowing. How was I going to get my 35 Anatomy students to participate in this first topic of “Mapping […]
What We Did: Feb 17 (Third Class; Assessment, Part 1)
Week 3 — Group 1: Assessment Co-authors for this post: Janey Flanagan (BMCC) Urban Ed, eLearning Maria Greene (BMCC) Urban Ed, Chemistry Irene Morrison-Moncure (Hunter) Classics Week three marked the first […]
Getting the most out of CBOX: Where and how to post content
CBOX offers many options on where to post content—but sometimes having so many possibilities can be overwhelming. With that in mind, I’ve outlined a few places you might want to post, with […]
Bowling Alone? Learning Alone? We Can Do Better
In his classic study Bowling Alone (2000), Robert Putnam argues that we have lost our connection to friends, family, neighbors, and our democratic structures. He warns that our “social capital” […]
Assessment and Mindset, and My Journey in the Struggle
In last week’s class, we talked about assessment. Formative assessment, summative assessment, and how we use assessment wisely (or not) to activate (or not) student learning, feedback loops, and our […]
The CUNY Sociodemographic Map of NYC Part II: Race and Ethnicity Revisited
In the Fall of 2014, as the first research activity of the new Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center, we embarked on a student-led project we are calling the CUNY […]
Think, Pair, Share on Friday the 13th!
I have to admit that I was a bit reticent about trying a Think, Pair, Share exercise on a Friday morning Speech Anatomy class, but I think that it turned […]