Wednesday, May 20, 2020

1st Gen Research Group

https://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2020/05/11/single-most-essential-requirement-designing-fall-online-course?fbclid=IwAR0CvfIbbvEMm0yDVwRuEGyOD7WyCnr312fYEgw8IxkEU1k5_ypNWMfezPA

our students are learning from a place of dislocation, anxiety, and trauma. So are we. This is the single essential that must be built into the structure, assignments, thinking about what and how we will teach online in the Fall.

Think of the student first
Be a human first

What do our students need now?  That is the essential question for going on line.  Whether teaching algebraic geometry or sociology or literature or art or religion, we need to begin with the question of: what would I need if I were a student in this historic moment?  A great place to start?

  Ask them!

  

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https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/04/09/higher-institutions-should-start-planning-now-reopening-fall-it-wont-be-easy



I appreciate there are naysayers who will chant, no need to coddle; this virus situation isn’t that bad; buck up and be tough. I’m sorry, but that posture seems totally out of touch with the realities of the moment. It is not coddling or being a snowflake to reflect wisely on how to respond to a traumatic moment in our nation and in the lives of our students, faculty and staff.

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https://www.chronicle.com/article/Covid-19-Is-a-Pivotal-Moment/248501

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