Foster Creativity, Critical Thinking and Metacognition through Technology
When my string trimmer battery failed last week, I borrowed a trimmer with a small gas engine. I had enough procedural knowledge of small engines to operate it successfully the first time. But then I had to turn it off to replenish the trim line. … Continue readingFostering Troubleshooting Skills in Digital Learning Environments
Click here for a 4 min. audio clip from a synchronous peer review session involving three students who used emailed drafts and live audio/video feed via WebEx. Twenty-first century college classrooms increasingly occupy digital spaces in which digital citizenship skills such as using online technologies … Continue readingRedesigning the Blended Synchronous Peer Review Session
Computational thinking as a lens for re-envisioning how composition and rhetorical pedagogies help college writers break down and assemble complex writing tasks The goal of college writing classes is that students will gain not only knowledge of the “threshold” writing concepts that characterize academic … Continue readingAlgorithmic thinking for rhetorical analysis
Intellectual access: Using digital archives in an introductory literature course Learning the discipline of literary analysis and interpretation and how these activities deepen one’s ability to think, read, and write critically about life is what a college Introduction to Literature course is about. In … Continue readingIntellectual Access
The subskill as a key to cognitive autonomy: How can note-taking support metacognitive engagement with a research task? This post is about a deceptively simple concept, note-taking. Or, rather, it is about teaching students to take notes. This post is about how achieving poor outcomes … Continue readingSupporting engagement through note-taking
