Dr. Jason W. Ellis' Blog on Science Fiction, Research, Pedagogy, Computers, and LEGO
I believe today was a very good day in my introductory writing class. Today’s class concludes week seven, and until today, I didn’t feel like I was connecting with my students as well as in my past classes at this point in the semester. It was with that in mind that I devised a different …
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My hypothesis walking into my two classrooms in Moulton Hall at Kent State University this semester was that my morning classroom would facilitate discussion better than my afternoon classroom. The reasoning behind my assumption was that the morning classroom has a great big central table with almost enough room for my 25 students to sit …
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One choice that I wanted to adhere to in designing my first college writing course was that I would have my students read some Science Fiction. Since I settled on the space exploration theme for the class, I thought that Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was the path of least resistance to bringing …
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