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John Warner
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"If teaching is not pedagogy and instructional design, what is it that teachers are supposed to be doing?" Good question from @nancyflanagan teacherinastrangeland.blog/2019/02/06/def…
I've worked in higher ed, but the only way for me to advance and improve as an instructor was by having autonomy over my pedagogy and engaging in a process that allowed me to practice iterative changes, working from student feedback.
That iterative process has led to the curriculum enshrined in "The Writer's Practice," which is easily adoptable by instructors and classes, but I also took great care to make it adaptable as well as adoptable. Teachers must take some ownership. amazon.com/Writers-Practi…
This from @nancyflanagan nails it for me. Curriculum must be a menu where we can select out bits that fit our pedagogical values (mine are curiosity, student agency, student expertise), but we must be free to combine and alter items as we see fit.
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Couple of links I want to put together in a thread that relate to the question of what's going on with student anxiety and depression. It's not students being "snowflakes." It's not smartphones, and it's not "a culture of safetyism." It's school.
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The concern over anxiety and depression extends across all income demographics. This is not a rich kid problem. There goes the theory of "safetyism" caused by helicopter parenting.
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John Warner
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Interesting archived blog post from @briankoppelman advocating against relying on prescriptive practices as enshrined in screenwriting books when writing for movies. He articulates the kind of process I built The Writer's Practice around. briankoppelman.com/2013/12/31/con…
In The Writer's Practice I set up "experiences" for writers to practice the skills, attitudes, and habits of minds of writers learn to think like a writer and adapt that thinking to unfamiliar genres to figure out how the work yourself. @briankoppelman illustrates that process.
The argument @briankoppelman makes is artistic, that to develop an original, compelling vision you can't rely on prescriptions. I think that's true, and I think similar values should extend to how we allow students to explore all writing. They will become better writers.
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Just experienced small instance of "algorithms of oppression." For me, Amazon's search bar corrected" Kimberlé" as in "Kimberlé Crenshaw" to "Kimberly,"
To be fair, searching for "Kimberly Crenshaw" does bring up Kimberlé Crenshaw's books, but couldn't help but notice the algorithm wanted to "correct" her first name before they knew who I was searching for.
Kimberlé Crenshaw's new book comes out in September. That's the info I was looking for.
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