Reflections from Annette Miles, PhD, Helen Krauthamer, PhD, and Uzma Amir emphasize that designing a learning experience should be seen as a relational practice rather than just a task. Often, the focus shifts to moving materials online or aligning with rubrics, making design transactional. However, course design fundamentally represents an act of care, which involves…
Faculty members are not opposed to technology; they feel inundated by its rapid introduction. Currently, educators are dealing with a surge in digital transitions, including new educational platforms, AI guidelines, assessment tools, cloud-based systems, security protocols, and different communication methods. From my IT perspective on campus, these changes seem relentless. Over the years, I have…
A new book by Peter S. Canellos, titled “Revenge For the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement,” explores the conservative efforts to reshape the U.S. judiciary. This shift culminated in the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. Justice Samuel Alito,…
Those who know me are aware that I am motivated by streaks. Currently, I’m on a 93-day streak with the Bend stretching app and a 1,027-day streak of closing my Apple Watch rings. Unfortunately, I missed participating in last year’s votes for Jane Hart’s Top 100 Tools for Learning, but I still shared my top…
