Category: EDU
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We Learn By Doing
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Active Learning: this semester we’ve talked about tools like Activity-based Classes, ePortfolios, Internships & Studying Abroad as great ways to create an active and engaged college experience that is relevant and useful for your career.
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Everything I need to know about creating my own bespoke college program I learned from George Lucas & J. K. Rowling
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Writing the screenplay or novel of your college career and then shopping it to the studios-publishers-departments to see who will produce your epic!
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How I spent my Summer Vacation
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Some of my creative, and teaching (and creative teaching) activities for Summer 2018.
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CSULB’s Writing Proficiency Exam: from Instrument of Mediocrity to Instrument of Excellence?
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Can CSULB’s Writing Exam grow from Instrument of Mediocrity to Instrument of Excellence? Here’s how to start the rehabilitation of this boring requirement.
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College is Upside Down
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When a student has to wait for faculty to turn grades in to tell you “how their semester went,” you know we’ve reached the nadir of meaningful college experience.
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Passionate arguments in support of nothing (I read the GPE (WPE) again today)
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Bad data and presumptuous essay prompts conspire to make students write safe, conforming essays. A tiny step toward a more conforming life. What if the GPE exam were preceded by a creative brainstorming session? Would the essays be different?
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TEDxCSULB Final Draft
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Final Draft for my TEDxCSULB talk “Burn The University Catalog: lessons from alternative education” to be delivered 9 April ’17 at the Walter Pyramid on the campus of Long Beach State University.
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Burn the University Catalog
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Draft of my TEDxCSULB talk for Sunday 9 April ’17 at the Walter Pyramid on the campus of Long Beach State University.
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TEDxCSULB Kickoff Seminar
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Notes from our TEDxCSULB workshop with Kimberlee Weil & Organizers Eric, Camille & Vania.
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Writing Essays for Grumpy old Men
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When we ask students to write (the GPE / WPE or anything else) are we asking them to write what we want to read? Or are we truly inviting them to think new thoughts in their own time, for their generation, and in their century?
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TEDxCSULB Proposal
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A copy of my proposal for TEDxCSULB 2017: “Burn the University Catalog: real lessons from fake universities”
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Donald Trump: The Education President
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Wednesday was a bad day. A man who preached hate and division was elected president of the United States. But it was also a day that students raised their voices with a power you don’t often hear. Was it a good day?
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A Donald Trump moment at the Future of the University Panel Discussion
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A panel discussion on the future of the university turned into a sort of Donald Trump rally as students left behind by “academic globalization” protested The Hall of Science Building as if it were a Goldman Sachs bank bailout.
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Is Critical Thinking Dead? (can Donald Trump pass the Turing Test?)
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Do students think critically? Do they read? Can they write? A few thoughts from grading the GPE (formerly WPE) today.
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The Writing Proficiency Exam is a Giant Milgram Experiment
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Is a essay that does what the author was told to do good enough? Does great writing require radical thinking?
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Of Flat Rubrics & Fake LMS
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I’m enrolled in a Faculty Learning Community “Critical Thinking through Online/Blended Discussion”. These are my 1st week notes.
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Merry Death.life
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Merry Death launched her website “Merry Death.life” today. She wants to give me a bottle of wine in thanks for helping. I want her to create a community.
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Galleries at The Beach
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The 5 CSULB School of Art student art galleries represent a an extraordinary resource. The Galleries offer a unique opportunity for student artists to exhibit and also for students across the CSULB campus to experience 60 different shows and talk with 60 different artists all in a single semester!