[The following article was published in the Summer 2014 issue of the Penn Urban Ed Journal] And of course I am afraid, because the transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation, and that always seems fraught with danger. […]Read Post ›
This semester students in my two Globalization classes have been reading six different works of Global Fiction. In an attempt to allow students to connect across classes, work independently, and balance several projects at once, I made a Google site where each student has a page. Students complete work related to Global Fiction on their […]Read Post ›
Pamela Paul has an opinion piece in today’s NYTimes about educational technology. She writes about “game-based learning” and characterizes “an underlying fear” that children won’t learn if it is not “superfun.” Her final thought is that students should play games (that is use technology,) “in their free time.. [O]nce they’re in the classroom they can challenge themselves. […]Read Post ›
