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Time For Today's Lesson: Learn How To Ask Questions, Seek Answers, Richard C. Crepeau
Time For Today's Lesson: Learn How To Ask Questions, Seek Answers, Richard C. Crepeau
UCF Forum
Time is a construct. There really is no such thing as absolute time. It is measured in a variety of ways and perceived in a multitude of ways. Is it relative? And if so, relative to what?
In Attempt To Quell Violence, Don't Publicly Identify 'Mentally Disturbed', Carla Poindexter
In Attempt To Quell Violence, Don't Publicly Identify 'Mentally Disturbed', Carla Poindexter
UCF Forum
I am certainly not in a position to judge whether a student appears mentally disturbed or unstable in the sense that he or she might be a threat to society or to themselves. However, as a university-level educator who spends most of my working hours with young people in their late teens and early 20s, I have witnessed and experienced situations that were a cause for concern in which I felt compelled to act, intervene or respond in ways that we, as research professors, are often not trained to do. Although most of these situations have been resolved with a …
Rethinking The Classroom: One Department’S Attempt To Connect Student Learning And National Events, John A. Mcarthur
Rethinking The Classroom: One Department’S Attempt To Connect Student Learning And National Events, John A. Mcarthur
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Communication programs have a rich anecdotal history of connecting student learning to real-world experience. Yet, the same programs, including ours, often privilege classroom-based instruction and instructor-led experiential learning over other types of experiences. When community organizers announced a national mega-event for our city, faculty in our communication department knew that we wanted to use it as a learning experience. We brainstormed ideas, most of which were classroom- and semester-based concepts typical of traditional topics courses. But, one of our faculty members suggested that we think outside of the concept of classroom. What resulted was a unique experience unlike any we …