Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth
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Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not new. The rise of ChatGPT, Google Bard, New Bing, and others in the academic space, however, is skyrocketing. My initial encounters with this rising AI…
Using Visible Thinking Routines in the Writing Process
I began my teaching career in August of 2001. Over the years, I have seen countless instructional plans, new technologies, supposedly groundbreaking research, and have attended every type of professional…
The Problem with Snapnotes
As I sat in a lecture attended by all first-year students at our college, I noticed the scale of a troubling trend: the rise of “snapnotes.” Snapnotes are what I…
Is ChatGPT the New CliffsNotes?
Remember CliffsNotes, the predecessor of Course Hero and similar web-based study resources? Like many GenXers, I had a few of those study guides with yellow-and-black covers in my L.L. Bean…
From Likes to Learning: Enhancing Classroom Culture through Social Media Engagement
Social media's evolution from a groundbreaking phenomenon to an everyday staple has generated widespread discourse on its role and influence in modern life. Notwithstanding the calls for its abolition by…
The English Major. If Only.
When the February 2023 New Yorker article by Nathan Heller declared the end of the English major, I shared this news with my students. I also shared Jorie Graham’s Twitter…
A Transformative Journey: Lessons from My First Year
Reflecting on my first year as a full-time clinical assistant professor, I feel that I have experienced significant growth in my teaching. Previously, as an adjunct, I often had to…
Using Linear and Non-linear Teaching Strategies to Meet the Multiple Learning Needs of Students
We make sense of the world around us by using a variety of internal lenses. Our learning may be more abstract than concrete, more right-brain than left-brain, more visual processing…
Six Check-in Ideas to Build Community in College Classrooms
It is no secret that there has been a sharp rise in rates of depression among college students (Alamo et al., 2020), which may be caused by a reported increase…