PEDABLOGUEA personal inquiry into the scholarship of teaching by Michael ArnzenBeing Contrary- April 27, 2008 I've been reflecting on an approach I consciously employed last week in two different class scenarios -- an online chat with graduate students and in a discussion of a literary reading with advanced writing students -- just to see how it might stimulate the conversation. I launched both by being...http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeArnzen/025528 Dipping into del.icio.us- April 17, 2008 I have stopped running a newsletter I used to keep for my journalismwriting students (and also freelance writers), called The Handy Job Hunter for Writers. This newsletter once offered me a place to write articles about some the issues I was teaching, as well as to connect with others in...http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeArnzen/025375 The Radical Impossibility of Course Outcomes- April 9, 2008 "...however effectively one 'prepares' for a class, the realities of learning alter the original orientation in a number of creative and unpredictable ways. If the structure is too tight, or the scenario is too predictable, then we move towards a tightly organized outcomes-based approach to learning. We end up...http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeArnzen/025248 You're Fired: The (Academic) Apprentice- April 7, 2008 Note: What you are about to read is more about the Donald Trump television show than any college-affiliated apprenticeship (well, unless you count Trump University, of course). I recently employed a version of Trump's "The Apprentice" game show in my "Publication Workshop" classroom on the spur of the moment, and...http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeArnzen/025183 |