Last year I worked every weekend from mid-March to the end of September. (more…)
learning objectives
31 August is Ken Campbell Day: diddling and doodling, seekers, radical education as seeking learning outcomes, and punk
From 2020: time for the annual pilgrimage …
(not to be confused with the homonymous Canadian politician, Canadian fundamentalist Baptist evangelist, Canadian swimmer, assorted other sportsmen, etc.)
It is time for the annual pilgrimage.
As is traditional, this post is a “sticky” one for a whole academic term, all the way to its end and the end of the calendar year. It contains various kinds of “stickiness” played out in four Acts:
I. revisiting 2017
II. 2018 and III. Campbellian education in action
IV. 2019 and learning outcomes.
Like previous pilgrimages, this year’s one adds more Stations to its rambling Way of Sorrows.
2020: “IT’S LIKE PUNK NEVER HAPPENED”
This year’s contextual frame: online teaching in pandemic times. (more…)
against surveillance exams
annual leave summer reading (2)
weekend whimsy: a very short story
Animal reading: teaching and learning about animal thinking
This essay is based on a talk given in January 2020 at the Modern Language Association Convention in Seattle, whose Presidential Theme was “Being Human.” (more…)
On animal reading and being humanimal
Teaching is a curious business
Juliet Ó Brien 