Learning to Learn
For most of us, traveling to a new destination involves typing an address into a GPS and then trusting it to tell us our every turn. That’s what I did the last time I went somewhere new, but when I arrived I couldn’t tell you how I had got there. Sure, I arrived...
A Wrinkle in Class Time, Part 1
Detail from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. CC BY-SA 3.0. Why Talk About Time? How much time should students spend working in your course? The poet William Blake wrote, “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”...
What’s Your Story?
Does your course have a story to tell? A fruitful way to view your course is through the lens of narrative or story. No matter what the topic or discipline there is always a way to incorporate storytelling in course design. Embedding your discipline’s concepts...
Bean Dad Pedagogy: Teaching Complex Software Tools
In the early days of 2021, the internet was briefly consumed with the story of ‘Bean Dad,’ a father who’s 9-year-old daughter was trying to make baked beans but didn’t know how to use a can opener. Bean Dad saw this as a ‘teachable moment’, gave his daughter a...
Arts Critique in the Time of Covid
“Hulk Smash!” I thought to myself as I dominated critique after critique. It was April of 2020, penultimate critique sessions for Advanced Animation, and after 9 years of teaching digital arts, I found myself reverting to teaching behaviors I had worked hard to...Subscribe by Email
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