I'm in an interesting conversation right now. A friend is interested in taking a course online on asked my opinion of the online education trend. I was honest, maybe too honest, in saying that i think it depends on what you value in education. On multiple...
Discomfort is a moment of catalyst. Unfortunately, ours is not a culture that "learns" from love and compassion - it is one that learns from strife. And so it is that we are situated within a discipline, and a craft (more generally), that critiques before...
I was invited to participate in two projects this year related to race and diversity in the department. One was directed at growing our diversity and the other was about having discussions about race and diversity in the department (and the discipline more widely). They...
I stumbled on a delightful (word choice?) piece by Ansel Adams about How to Write About Haiti. The comments at the end of the piece are really quite insightful and led to Binyavanga Wainaina's piece in Granta, How to Write About Africa. I think these will...
One of the most difficult things to deal with in teaching and TAing is racism in the classroom. I'm not just talking about un-recognized privilege, but actual coded racism (and sometimes not so coded). But i have to thank Sara Gilbert for the best advice...