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

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During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. But there has been progress, both with the tools themselves and the teaching practices we employ to incorporate technology into the classroom. How do we do that?

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The Fight to Preserve—and Teach—African-American History

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We would not be in this room, I would not be able to speak with you today, if there wasn’t perseverance, courage, creativity, intellectual development—all of these things that people of African descent have been and continue to be in this country, and the power of the spirit of African Americans is being celebrated today.

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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on September 9, 2019. 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. © Magna Publications.

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Innovative Schools Find Lessons — and Opportunities — in Remote Learning

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Over at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, a New York public school named after the African-American civil rights leader that stresses intellectual development and social involvement, Jeff Palladino sits in his principal’s office for the last time in what promises to be a long while.

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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on September 9, 2019. 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. © Magna Publications.

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Why Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the Critical Thinking Skills Gap

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But, it turns out, teaching this skill is no easy task. Students in the course were also asked to design a class to teach how to create résumés and cover letters. . That student’s intellectual development will be stunted, and her ability to make sense of new information will be compromised.

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How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

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The examples below show how they pull this off, teaching children to build caring and respectful learning communities in which participants take each other’s ideas seriously. Join our mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration that will make your teaching more effective and fun. Links to both are below.

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