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We Need to Distinguish Applied Humanities from Experiential Learning

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This may help the student better understand the novels cultural context, competing demands and motivations for different characters, and the social restrictions facing some characters. Communication Education 66 (4): 42339. But since it does not help the student solve a real-world problem, such an activity is not applied learning.

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We Need to Distinguish Applied Humanities from Experiential Learning

Faculty Focus

This may help the student better understand the novels cultural context, competing demands and motivations for different characters, and the social restrictions facing some characters. Communication Education 66 (4): 42339. But since it does not help the student solve a real-world problem, such an activity is not applied learning.

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Developing Your Approach to Generative AI

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How do you communicate these skills and their relationship to your course content to students? What is your discipline’s culture around generative AI use? Introduction Generative AI in higher education has been widely discussed following the record-breaking uptake of ChatGPT in November 2022 (Dwivedi et al., 2023; Gordon, 2023).

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Why Schools Should Teach Philosophy, Even to Little Kids

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And I think that adults too often communicate that they don't value that. Another upside is that when you teach philosophy in schools, you have the opportunity to cultivate norms of good conversations and good deliberations. Is that something you see in the college students you teach?

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Religion Is a Taboo Topic. I Discuss It in My Classroom Anyway.

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These restrictions felt particularly challenging in the context of teaching Arabica Semitic and Middle Eastern language intertwined with the culture and religion of its speakers. Words like Allah were labeled 'sensitive,' even though they are intrinsic to the Arabic language and culture.