Blog Feature Archives: What We're Reading

What We’re Reading | July 3, 2018

Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College

Robert Cowan, Acting Assistant Dean for Program Development, Assessment & Review at Hunter College (and longtime friend of ACERT), recently published a book titled, Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College. The book asks whether exploring narratives that subvert dominant Western paradigms of progress in classrooms enables students to re-narrate and represent their lives.

What We’re Reading | March 29, 2017

Hillary Clinton and beyond

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, Online writing and reflection, Student Engagement

Professor Wendy Hayden's (English) rhetoric course, Hillary Clinton and Beyond, explored rhetoric in the context of the recent election. The course experimented with a crowdsourced syllabus in which Wendy chose the readings for the first four classes of the semester and then turned the syllabus over to the students. By the end of the semester, her course uncovered answers to some of the guiding questions about Clinton and the power of rhetoric.

What We’re Reading | October 13, 2016

Being a Scholar in the Digital Era

By ACERT
Topics : Data visualization, Social and sharing, Technology

With the backdrop of today’s rapidly changing academic landscape, there are vast opportunities for using new technologies in scholarly work. Polly Thistlewaite and Jessie Daniels explore using digital technologies to bring together academics, journalists, and activists to produce knowledge and promote social justice.

What We’re Reading | April 19, 2016

Make It Stick

By ACERT, Mark Bobrow, Stephanie Margolin and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Assess student work, Assignments & exams, Course design

Members of the ACERT community share their responses to "Make It Stick." This book challenges conventional thinking about student learning, with a particular focus on how inefficient and unproductive strategies and practices are often reinforced by educators.

What We’re Reading | February 24, 2015

Debates in the Digital Humanities series

By ACERT and Jeff Allred
Topics : Test Category

For those of you who are curious about the "digital humanities" there is no better place to start than the 2012 Debates in the Digital Humanities volume edited by CUNY's own Matt Gold.