The Schott Foundation for Public Education published its 2020 “Loving Cities Index” that examines systematic racism related to education, health, and economic opportunity in America’s largest cities.
Category: Professional Reading
What “Reading Laterally” Means for Teaching Students Digital Literacy
Image credit How do we get students to evaluate what they find on the open Web? One technique is to teach them how to fact-check sources and read “laterally” across many sites instead of trying to verify the authority of just one … Continue Reading
Why Students Have Trouble with Reading Citations and Citing Info Sources
In his article, “When Everything is a Website,” author William Badke explains that to many generation Z students who have little or no history with print, “the meaning behind the traditional distinctions that defined various types of academic literature is vanishing” (p. … Continue Reading
Featured E-Book: The Importance of Philosophy in Teacher Education
The importance of philosophy in teacher education : mapping the decline and its consequences edited by Andrew D. Colgan and Bruce Maxwell, discusses the gradual decline as a major part of educational studies. Chapters address how this decline has impacted teacher education … Continue Reading
Featured E-book Navigating Challenges in Qualitative Educational Research
Navigating Challenges in Qualitative Educational Research, from Routledge by Todd Ruecker and Vanessa Svihla, discusses how education researchers navigate the qualitative research process, along with a myriad of decision points. This work offers students and other researchers insights on how to deal with research challenges.
A Decade of Neglect
A recent report by the AFT, A Decade of Neglect, outlines the effects of austerity agendas and disinvestment in public schools that has sparked a wave of teacher walkouts and shortages around the country. See also the video highlighting the main points of the report.
Kanopy: Not Just Like Netflix, and Not Free
In February of 2019, the USF Libraries scaled back their support of Kanopy streaming video service due to insufficient funds. The service had been purchased through technology fees that had expired in 2019. The blog post about it is here. In a recent … Continue Reading
Tips for Teaching Students “What to Learn” and “How to Learn” During Lectures
Tiffany Culver’s article from Faculty Focus offers some great ideas about helping students learn and retain new material. She bases her techniques on Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel.
Self-Plagiarism: When is Re-Purposing Text Ethically Justifiable
Research ethics expert, Mark Israel, discusses the ethics of self-plagiarism and asks, when it is it justifiable to re-purpose previously published social research in this article from the LSE Impact Blog. He concludes with a checklist of 5 points to consider before reproducing previously published social research. Image credit
Defining Student Success Data: Recommendations for Changing the Conversation
This report from the Higher Learning Commission discusses the current definition of student success and recommends that educators need a different conversation than just measures of completion rates.