Tag: Tara DaPra
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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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Spring 2025 Co-Writing Community (Tuesdays & Fridays 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.)
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Tara DaPra, one of CATL’s Instructional Development Consultants, will lead another “Co-Writing Community” this semester. A co-writing community is a zero-obligation, zero-preparation, zero-outside work activity. Use this time to work on creative or scholarly projects that might otherwise get pushed aside by the demands of teaching. All faculty and staff are welcome! The co-writing community…
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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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Fall 2024 Co-Writing Community (Tuesdays 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. & Fridays 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.)
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Tara DaPra, one of CATL’s Instructional Development Consultants, will lead another “Co-Writing Community” this fall. A co-writing community is a zero-obligation, zero-preparation, zero-outside work activity. Use this time to work on creative or scholarly projects that might otherwise get pushed aside by the demands of teaching. All faculty and staff are welcome! The co-writing community…
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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…