Category: Guest Blog Posts
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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…
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On Keeping a Teaching Journal
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Article by Tara DaPra, Teaching Professor & 2024-25 Instructional Development Consultant On the last day of the semester, I read the Brendan Kennelly poem “Begin” to my creative writing students, which ends thus: “Though we live in a world that dreams of ending/that always seems about to give in/something that will not acknowledge conclusion/insists that…
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My Resistance (and Maybe Yours): Help Me Explore Generative AI
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Article by Tara DaPra, CATL Instructional Development Consultant & Associate Teaching Professor of English & Writing Foundations I went to the OPID conference in April to learn from colleagues across the Universities of Wisconsin who know much more than I do about Generative AI. I was looking for answers, for insight, and maybe for a…
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Teaching Strategy Spotlight – Escape Rooms Help Students See That Chemistry Doesn’t Have to Be Scary!
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Background Professor Breeyawn Lybbert has been teaching at UWGB for the last 5 years. Professor Lybbert started at the UW Colleges in Manitowoc in 2014, after having worked previously at the University of Minnesota Morris. She went to the University of Minnesota for her bachelor’s degree and earned her PhD from UCLA. She has a…