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Elmo in Grouchland? No it is DeFusco in MOOCland
I remember a time in my life when I was interesting. I used to read, go the symphony, subscribe to the repertory theater, and even see an occasional film before it was released on DVD or downloaded on...
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Notes from a Digital Notebook: Part 2, Writing and Organizing Ideas
In my last post, I discussed the use of Evernote as a tool to store and organize fieldnotes. For this blog, I transition to the writing process. I am fortunate to have mounds of digital data from my...
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Thursday is TechDay: Lifelong Literacies
I’ve been thinking about writing (and reading) in the 21st century and the emphasis higher education has begun to place on pre-K–20 college preparation. But I’ve also been thinking about online writing...
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Digital Literacy—The New Frontier
My children attend a no-tech school. It’s no-tech not because of an articulated philosophy shunning all things digital, but rather because it’s a charter school and they don’t have the funds to provide...
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Imagining a More Action-Oriented Tenure Process
On the first day of school, two students started fighting. One student tried to escape. The two ran from the first to third floor. A crowd followed them. Just before the fight stopped, a security...
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Who’s on First?
There is a classic Abbott and Costello skit called “Who’s on first?” where Costello gets befuddled by the names of his friend’s team. We are close to getting into that situation without half as much...
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What is Education without Social Justice? Getting Involved at AERA 2013
In one of my previous posts titled Not “Profiting from People’s Pain”: Remembering the Transformational Role of Education Researchers, I discuss the importance of engaging in work that helps others...
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Tying to Fix an Urban School without Fixing the Neighborhood in Which It is...
**Over the course of the next two weeks, we share 13 scholars’ diverse perspectives and opinions on the 2013 AERA annual conference theme “Education and Poverty: Theory, Research, Policy and Praxis.”...
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On Rejection
Kurt Vonnegut once said to a group of eager writing students, “Probably all of you are good enough to make it as writers. But it’s likely that only one of you has what it takes to endure the constant...
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The Digital Bookshelf of an Assistant Professor
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is one of my favorite plays. At the beginning of the story, Faustus, surrounded by countless dusty tomes, declares that he has read everything about everything. I’m...
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The Pros and Cons of Editing for Promotion, Tenure, and the Intellectual Life
I am frequently asked about the invisible rules for promotion and tenure, or for advice on what is a good use of one’s time. These are fair questions and I’m probably the right person to ask since I am...
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Training Undergraduates for Disciplinary Writing and Research
Imagine, for a moment, you are a world-class athlete training at a top Division 1 university as a track specialist in the 110-meter hurdles. For several years, you have endeavored to acquire several...
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The Revolution is Now?
It’s summer, so that must mean that I am teaching Finance in Higher Education again. And this summer, I’m teaching it a lot. I have all three sections for the Ed.D. and Master’s programs related to...
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Where’s Rieber Hall?
Late one night last fall, I ended up driving through the UCLA campus after the LA Metro Transportation Authority, Caltrans, and Kiewit decided to reroute me and other drivers off the 405 freeway for...
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The Moral Limits of Academic Markets—I
For as long as I have taught graduate classes I have had a few assumptions that have set me apart from the norm: I think grades are counter-productive so I have not put grades on papers, but...
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Balancing Technology and Education
We’ve all had this experience before. You go into a restaurant or on a plane and a child is sitting quietly or not so quietly (insert preferred technology here: Droid phone, iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire...
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The Academic Marketplace: Assistant Coaches and Assistant Professors
I am a taxpayer. Obviously, I am aware that paying taxes means that I only have a partial say in how the state budget gets determined. I don’t have a line item veto and that’s entirely understandable....
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Quality Conversations in Academe
The blog topics this week begin a conversation about what we mean when we talk about “quality” as faculty in the higher education environment. I have asked four colleagues to each take a particular...
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The Elephant in the Hallway: Promises for Peer Review of Teaching in Higher...
I believe that I am a “good teacher.” On most days when I teach I am fully present, minutes never pass slowly, and I am dancing in concert with ideas, actions, and my students. My professional identity...
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Quality Instruction
When considering quality instruction, I often think about the age-old question “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” Does quality instruction emerge through finely crafted standards and top-of...
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