October 21, 2010
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Assessment of a student’s work need not be equated with grading it, even when a final course grade must be assigned. My students receive an automatic B+ for satisfactory completion of 80% of the assignments and participation items. Written assignments … Continue reading
October 20, 2010
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When the interdisciplinary graduate program I teach in (CCT) was moved under a Department of Curriculum and Instruction, I decided to learn more about the theory that guided the Curriculum studies field. I came across William Doll’s account of postmodern … Continue reading
October 9, 2010
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What concepts and practices help us work in the arena bordered on one side by critical interpretation of the directions taken by scientific and technological research and application and on the other side by organizing social movements so as to … Continue reading
October 8, 2010
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Group processes not only need skillful and effective facilitators; they also need participants or collaborators who are skilled and effective in contributing to the desired outcomes. To develop skills and dispositions of collaboration requires researchers (and researchers-in-training) to make opportunities … Continue reading
October 6, 2010
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Before reviewing a variety of ways one might use wikis—only the last of which is the much-vaunted “collaborative knowledge generation”—let us consider the general kinds of reasons for using a technological tool. (This post comes from a wikipage with links … Continue reading
October 3, 2010
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Short of having a heart attack while working at one’s desk, how do faculty members convey to higher administrators (chairs, deans, etc.) when we are at (or beyond) the limits of what we can take on? This is an especially … Continue reading
October 1, 2010
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An evolving set of guidelines for our email-mediated interactions (http://ptaylor.wikispaces.umb.edu/E-etiquette) Please suggest adjustments or add rationale or new guidelines. If any doubts arise about receipt of an email, use RR (receipt acknowledgement requested) if you are sender. Confirm if you … Continue reading
September 20, 2010
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A colleague in a faculty seminar on teacher research (back in 1999) participated in the first class of the research and writing course as if he were a student. The class consisted mostly of an overview from me of the … Continue reading
September 18, 2010
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I want students to see dialogue around written work as an important part of defining and refining research direction and questions. However, the system they are familiar with is: produce a product, receive a grade, check that assignment off the … Continue reading
September 13, 2010
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Consensus decision-making means learning about and addressing concerns of all before moving ahead. (This is quite different from the [mis]use of the term to mean a vote was not taken [which may have been because the minority chose not to … Continue reading