Treatises abound on the evils of learning management systems, but my primary complaint has always been that the one at my institution traps instructional materials and student work inside a password-protected virtual space that also happens to be fairly unattractive. I use it because the institution requests that I do …
I think it’s safe to call the distinction between writing to learn and learning to write one of the pillars of writing pedagogy. It is a truth universally acknowledged among writing instructors that we should use low-stakes, informal writing to encourage students to process what they’ve read, seen, or heard. …
Adaptation is a powerful tool in the literature classroom. What works well when teaching literature does not always work well when teaching writing, but I have found adaptation equally beneficial for both tasks. This is because it interrupts the common student expectation that there is a single story that should …
I’ve been building a class with humanities colleagues at the University of New Haven.
