May 2024
Writers often evoke movies to describe the threats posed by artificial intelligence. Although AI has been around in many of the products we have used for some time,
In Rasselas, Samuel Johnson’s philosopher Imlac offers the following bleak assessment of life: “Human life is every where [sic] a state in which much is to be endured,
“The teacher who can ask of students, ‘What do you need in order to learn?’ or ‘how can I serve?’ brings to the work of educating a spirit of service that honors the students’ will to learn. Committed acts of caring let all students know that the purpose of education is not to dominate, or prepare them to be dominators, but rather to create the conditions for freedom. Caring educators open the mind, allowing students to embrace a world of knowing that is always subject to change and challenge.”
A year ago I received the worst student ratings of instruction (SRIs) in my 28 years of teaching. On the
I’ve been wanting to write about my journey to embrace Rumi’s wisdom in my pedagogy. My teaching career began at
I think most faculty have a love-hate relationship with mistakes. On the one hand, we understand that learning is messy
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