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Teaching With Technology in Higher Ed? Start With Relationship-Building.

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In an inclusive classroom, the instructor must embrace their own history and privilege, as well as and students’ histories. Doing so involves complex learning and unlearning, but that can lead to the development of a more authentic relationship between the instructor and students. Leverage partners.

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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

Faculty Focus

As a writing teacher, I’ve discovered that counseling writers to sequence details logically does more for their writing, their readers, and their intellectual development than encouraging them to take risks or to make art. To write a story, a writer must ask important questions: Where does this story begin? A history of an idea.

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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

Faculty Focus

As a writing teacher, I’ve discovered that counseling writers to sequence details logically does more for their writing, their readers, and their intellectual development than encouraging them to take risks or to make art. To write a story, a writer must ask important questions: Where does this story begin? A history of an idea.

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With an Unusual Model and ‘Forbidden Courses,’ a New University Is Taking Shape in Texas

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What sort of things do we need to do as students, as faculty, as a campus community that will allow us to get to know each other as human beings in the deepest possible way so that we can then engage in the kind of vexing questions that humanity faces. What answers are worse when we ask questions? What answers are better?

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