Category: Articles
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Honoring the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars Participants
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Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) is a signature program of the Universities of Wisconsin. Each year two instructors from each UW campus are selected to represent their institution. Participants spend one year in professional community, and they design and carry out individual scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects that are presented at the…
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Teaching Strategy Spotlight – Positively Awful Visual “Non-Aid”
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Roshelle Amundson, Applied Writing and English Department About the Professor Roshelle Amundson has been teaching at UW-Green Bay since 2019. Amundson has also been an adjunct professor and a Dean of Faculty in Minneapolis, MN. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and a BA in Professional Communications from Metropolitan State University.…
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Teaching Strategy Spotlight – Debate on High Capacity Wells
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Rebecca Abler, Manitowoc Campus, Natural and Applied Sciences Department About the Professor Rebecca Abler is a Wisconsin native with a degree in Biology from UW-Oshkosh. She graduated with a PhD in 2004 and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UW- Madison. She became a faculty member in 2005 in Manitowoc and is now a…
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Teaching Strategy Spotlight – PostSecret Writing Project
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Jonas Gardsby, Green Bay Campus, English Department and Writing & Applied Arts About the Professor Jonas Gardsby is in his third year as an Assistant Professor at UWGB. Previously, he completed an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English at the University of Colorado. He earned his PhD in early modern literature at…
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“The Great Re-Wiring of Childhood” Goes to College: A Reflection on Jonathan Haidt’s THE ANXIOUS GENERATION
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Article by Tara DaPra, Teaching Professor & 2024-25 Instructional Development Consultant Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, was supposed to be about how the rise of smartphones and social media were damaging democratic society. But when he wrote the chapter on…