GEDI / Grad 5114 – Fall 2015
Have you ever felt like the outsider looking in? Do you hear the words of change fall on the deaf ears around but shrug and do what is needed for your grade anyway? Maybe I do. Parker Palmer’s “A New Professional” struck a chord when he brought up the need for change from within the […]
Read moreMany can assume that information is power, in a positive way. The UN has gone so far as to say that access to the Internet should be a basic human right. While I doubt that is so people every where can suffer through mediocre food photography on Instagram, I do think that the access to […]
Read moreReading through some of Freire’s thoughts and ideas and hearing them from him in an interview has been interesting. Critical thinking and moving away from the sage on the stage views of education have been going on since I started grad school. Rarely though does this come up in class. Frequently this is what I […]
Read more“Ms. Mac” is how she wanted us to refer to her. She was one of these energetic people that, now that I think about it, was visibly passionate about teaching. I had her for our state level “social studies” course in middle school. I remember two things that she told us. 1) ‘Never fill out […]
Read moreSorry, but I fall asleep like in lectures like it was my job. I don’t think it’s just being an abnormally large human in a tiny seat or anything do to with the lecture but… Temperature: yeah, that does it for me. Too hot; out Too cold; out It keeps changing though. I can be psyched […]
Read moreDan Pink’s words struck a chord for me. Not because he is a faithful boyfriend in Dr. Who, but because I have noticed a thing or two about motivation in myself. Like a few other students in graduate school, I have had the opportunity to work outside of academia and been able to develop a […]
Read moreYou may be saying “what is a fistulated cow,” or you may be wondering about Socrates and cows. In class so far, we have been discussing connected learning, and as a side note, testing, and how the culture or education relies so much on the final test grades of students as a feedback for educators. […]
Read moreI fell into connections in learning by accident, and it certainly did not follow common themes of connected learning, but maybe it could help… Long story short, I quit school my sophomore year because I was no closer to finding a major and I couldn’t sleep. Fast forward 2 years and I’m back in […]
Read moreFwd:Fwd:Who Reads These Anyway? So I’m a scientist, right? Less test tubes and discovery and more reading and communication than you might think. My biggest job is to communicate, with people, almost constantly. Its not enough to make a pretty poster for a conference once a year, and maybe put together a 10 minute talk. […]
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