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On the eve of departure
The eve of departure was busy and long. It also wasn’t really the eve of departure. I guess technically right now is the eve of departure since my flight will leave at 5:15 to Copenhagen, where I’ll have a casual FOURTEEN hour layover, before continuing to Zurich on Friday night. The past week and a…
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The Myth of Multitasking
I was very excited that this was a topic of discussion for our blogs this week because I just gave a lecture to my HD 1004 class on Tuesday about the myth of multitasking. Please watch this short video before reading the rest of this post! As I told them, when you think you’re multitasking,…
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The one true representation of contemporary pedagogy
Amos Kalua Ziyad Alhamdan Zellie Hackett Diana Devine Abram Diaz-Strandberg Remy Wehbe
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Departmental support makes all the difference for new teachers
I identified with a lot of what Sarah Deel discussed in her post. I will be a first time teacher next semester, so I am asking and attempting to answer many of the same questions she did; however, unlike Sarah, I have the full support and mentorship of my department during this process. I am…
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Effective Learning
A number of posts this week have discussed various themes that have emerged since beginning this class, its readings and discussions. For me, each week, I consider balance to be the theme applied in different contexts. I think the idea of engaged and mindful learning is noble, but like this post I also acknowledge that we…
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Balancing integrative/digital learning
I had some thoughts watching the TED talk by by Michael Wesch, so that is what I’m choosing to focus on in this blog, with some general comments about required blogging below. In both areas, I came to the same conclusion that balance should be at the forefront of education, whether it be balancing professor…
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Campus Resources
I was thinking about how graduate students and faculty have a different relationship with campus than undergraduates, and how that might mean we have to do a little extra work if we want to be of most benefit possible to our students. I first came to Virginia Tech as a student in graduate school. My sister…
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Classroom Engagement
When I was in undergrad, I was a peer facilitator for a group of 10 students in a freshman year seminar for the honors college. Each year, I had a variety of student personalities and strengths, including the exuberant and outgoing students and also the thoughtful and shy students. I was fortunate to have such…
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Future of the University
I think that this sentiment has been made by my peers, but I am really hoping for a push toward more emphasis and respect for teaching positions and fields in the humanities and social sciences. Whether intentionally or not, often when we talk about the most highly respected or highly sought after positions, we assume…
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Technology in the Classroom
Both of these infographics come from reports by the Babson Research Group in Massachusetts. I found the first infographic, from a 2013 study on Social Media for Teaching and Learning in an article from Inside Higher Ed. I found the second in an infographic published for 2015 when I was trying to find an updated…
Dr. Diana Devine
A developmentalist interested in technology and relationships
Dr. Diana Devine 