accidental education
It’s just below the Marge Simpson tree, heading to the right … from the green area to the sagey area. This was the kind of guidance we were relaying to one another as we pointed…
Category: learning
bodies in motion
I should do more yoga. This was the first thing I wrote down on my notepad as I was sitting cross-legged on the floor. I was in a circle amongst the 13 dance students who…
innovating education
Note: This represents my written narration for a TEDx talk I gave at Weber State University on February 28, 2014. The words that come out of my mouth and the words that come out of…
community gardening
Instead of the “community supported agriculture” (CSA) program that we usually sign up for during the summer, which would have supplied us with a weekly basket of local, seasonal vegetables, we opted for a slightly…
potential
What struck me most about Grace’s storytelling today at the university sponsored festival, and in front of about 200 other people in her session alone, was that she offers surprise. It’s not surprising that she’s…
Pipelines: Why metaphors matter
by Adam Johnston (originally posted on writescience.wordpress.com) In all of my meetings and conversations with him, my dean — the head administrator of the College of Science in which I am gainfully employed — is…
best practice
Over the summer there isn’t much chance to have those long conversations about teaching and learning. Instead, friends and I are relegated to social media, posts of New York Times pieces onto Facebook threads, followed…
conference travel: Nepalese lunch and alligators
A large part of what I do at conferences lately is to try to understand more about what the point of the conference really is, and how we achieve that. We purport that these meetings…
becoming
Tonight I was watching Grace as she was learning new takedowns, part of martial arts class. Her partner, same purple belt but contrasting long, dark hair to Grace’s short blonde cut, posed in a mirror…