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Lorelei Blackburn Wins Kairos Teaching Award for Graduate Students
PhD student Lorelei Blackburn received the Kairos Teaching Award for Graduate Students earlier this year. Professor Ellen Cushman praises Blackburn’s attentiveness to her students and her effective...
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John Monberg wins CAL Alumni Award for Innovation and Leadership in Teaching...
Photo by G.L. Kohuth from MSU Today We would like to formally congratulate WRAC’s very own, John Monberg, for winning the College of Arts & Letters Alumni Award for Innovation and Leadership in...
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Making Games: A Different Approach To Learning
Kids shouldn’t sit in front of television screens all day, but they do. Since we can’t get them away from the television set, why not use games as tool for teaching. Using games as an educational tool...
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The Legend of The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail, classic computer game of yesteryear, started in 1971 as three student teachers struggled to get their students engaged. Hello, pedagogy. The game started on a teletype machine...
View ArticleCulturally Responsive Teaching
Even if Black History Month is over, you should read this article for tips on how to keep a classroom culturally responsive. “Culturally responsive” is a term best explained by Zaretta Hammond, author...
View ArticleBreaking an Age Old Tradition
We’ve all been there. You walk into a college lecture hall filled with 300+ people, sit down with your laptop, most likely on Facebook, and listen to the professor talk for an hour, before going home...
View ArticleThe Why and Where of Remedial Writing
In my last blog entry, I outlined a brief history of basic writing and outlined several questions that have been on the table in our first year writing program. Let’s get to work on the first question:...
View ArticleTrying to Write
Writing is sometimes difficult and messy, even for professional writers. I recently attended a talk about writing instruction in academia with fellow writers and writing teachers. When asked, “Who here...
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Teaching with Twitter
Twitter is famous for sharing information in only 140 characters. Beyond sharing thoughts, general life updates, and news dissemination—a few of the typical ways Twitter is used—is the idea of using...
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The Art of Science
Poetry is brought to life through a myriad of ways: spoken word, dance, performance, etc., but has recently been unexpectedly mixed with robotics. While it might not sound like these two subjects would...
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