Hey Prof, Why I Gotta Do This?
In our pedagogy courses, we toss around the terms “instructional objectives” and “course learning outcomes” like they are unquestionable cornerstones of classroom work. We might be proud of our lesson plan templates, with their four-bullet objectives heading up the daily agenda. But how often do our students make a clear connection between our course instructional […]
Babel-ing about the Tower of Power
The title of this post is a play on words. I know, it’s not immediately evident, but this wordplay has just been swimming through my head in the last few weeks. The Tower of Babel is a biblical story about power, and about language. And lately, those things have really reared their head in a […]