How I use Mobile Technology in the Classroom

Posted on by Richard Newton

If you follow me on Twitter, I may have blown up your feed with dispatches from #LancLearns. Lancaster Learns is a seven-college collaborative conference "to promote quality teaching and learning by building capacity for evidence-based pedagogy and learner-centered instruction through collaboration across the institutions of higher education within Lancaster county." If the description doesn't get … Continue reading How I use Mobile Technology in the Classroom

Watching The Central Park Five @Etowncollege

Posted on by Richard Newton

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were arrested and charged with brutally attacking and raping a white female jogger in Central Park. News media swarmed the case, calling them a "wolfpack."  The five would spend years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit before the truth about what really happened became clear. With THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, this story … Continue reading Watching The Central Park Five @Etowncollege

Tell me, Doc! “What do I have to do to learn this?”

Posted on by Richard Newton

One pedagogical bandwagon that I've been happy to board is the move to rethink assessment. How do we teach in such a way that evaluation is a means rather than an ends in the learning process? Educator Robert Talbert has been moving from traditional grading to specifications grading in his STEM courses at Grand Valley State University. … Continue reading Tell me, Doc! “What do I have to do to learn this?”

#EtownEngage: #FergusonSyllabus Teach-In

Posted on by Richard Newton

LancasterOnline’s Tim Stuhldreher spoke to my colleagues and I about what the #FergusonSyllabus looks like at Elizabethtown College. Check out his article, “College events look at Post-Ferguson, Race, Justice Questions.”