Diana Schaack, assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver’s Human Development and Family Relations Department, said there is a real crisis in Colorado and nationally. “We are driving more and more teachers out of the classroom, into different fields because they can’t afford to stay in the classroom,” said Schaack. Based on her research, […]
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Addressing ethnic self-hatred in Latinx undergraduates
An article by the SEHD’s own Carlos Hipolito-Delgado was recently featured in Counseling Today, check out the excerpt below and click the link at the bottom for the full article! When Europeans first made contact with the indigenous peoples of the Americas, a path toward Eurocentrism was set in the Western Hemisphere. In the years […]
Recap on Something Queer event for LGBTQ faculty, staff and allies organized by Ed Cannon
Some 80 members of the CU Denver|Anschutz Medical Campus community convened at the Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities for Something Queer, the third annual back-to-school gathering of LGBTQ faculty, staff and allies. The Aug. 16 event offered a networking opportunity, critical information and social support for new and seasoned faculty and staff to connect, […]
Books@Work: Bandwidth Recovery
This short-term book club meets twice in September to discuss this important new book. CFD will deliver a copy of the book after you register to participate. Please join us! Thursdays, Sept. 6 & 20 12:30 – 2:00 pm CFD Conference Room (320 Lawrence Street Center) Register: www.ucdenver.edu/cfd Bandwidth Recovery Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive […]
ReadMe: Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms
Thanks to a grant from Chancellor Horrell, we are launching the ThinqStudio to examine critical digital pedagogy at CU Denver. As a part of that work, we are sending 20 colleagues from the SEHD, CLAS, CAM, SPA, and CAP to the Digital Pedagogy Institute in July and August. Among the topics explored this summer will […]
Crafting Your Online Scholarly Presence (video/article)
A number of SEHD colleagues are exploring an initiative called A Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) in league with the thinqstudio. Attached is an article on the initiative from the latest issue of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy on Becoming Literate Digitally (PDF) – thank you Lori Elliot! This initiative involves personalized web sites for students and […]
Video: Educating the Whole Person (Gardner Campbell)
How do you define personalized learning? =========== Gardner Campbell is a thought-leader in higher-education and digital pedagogy. He is an Associate Professor of English and Special Assistant to the Provost at Virginia Commonwealth University, where for nearly three years he also served as Vice Provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success as well as Dean […]
NMC Horizon Report (2017) & the future of higher education
CU Denver Contributors – Brad Hinson & Dave Thomas Download the 2017 NMC Horizon Report (PDF) The NMC Horizon Report is an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education. Six key trends, six significant challenges, and six important developments in educational […]
Epic Learning: Large Class as Intentional Design
from DML Central | FULL ARTICLE … Pedagogical practices such as this — the curation and publication of classmate’s work by classmates — contribute to students being entangled in each other’s work, creating contagion where students pursue inquiries of their own design, inquiries that matter to them and begin to matter to their classmates as […]
Watch: The Life of an Undocumented High-School Senior
via the Atlantic Ilse Cruz was brought into the United States by her mother when she was 4 years old, and has no memories of her native Mexico. She also doesn’t feel truly American—because she’s undocumented. “American culture and Mexican culture, they’re both a part of who I am but I can’t understand either one […]