Archive for January, 2008
Martin Luther King Day
Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies. This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one’s tribe, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men…. When […]
Read More..>>blogsnobbery?
So there I was last fall, idealistic and righteous and inspired by the best. I was going to have my students do “real” blogging, the kind where they take off on their own and find themselves writing everyday and transforming their lives. I wrote this in a draft post that I never posted:
I […]
Training vs. Deep Learning for Faculty
I want to ask a question: is faculty development in information technology the same as faculty development in general?
Here is the unnamed pachyderm: university faculty are not trained as educators. As Ken Bain wrote in his book, great educators do exist in higher ed, but they have found their own way there through instinct […]