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What Is Ethical And Responsible Use Of Generative Ai?, Marti Snyder

Learning and Educational Center Virtual Teaching and Learning Conference

In this session, we will explore the ethical and responsible use of generative AI in higher education. We will examine key issues identified in the literature and discuss their relevance across various disciplines. Through a guided discussion, we will explore our pressing challenges and discuss the tools, guidelines, or frameworks needed to support informed decision-making in the use of generative AI.

Behind The Scenes: Uncovering Violence, Gender, And Powerful Pedagogy [Dialogue: The Interdiscplinary Journal Of Popular Culture And Pedogogy, Volume 5, Issue 3 (October 2018)], Anna S. Cohenmiller

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Behind the Scenes: Uncovering Violence, Gender, and Powerful Pedagogy [Dialogue: The Interdiscplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedogogy, Volume 5, Issue 3 (October 2018)]

Editorial

Persistent Need to Look behind the Curtain, Anna S. CohenMiller

Articles

Grounded Aesthetics: Pedagogy for a Post-Truth Era, Becca Cragin

We All Have Jobs Here: Teaching and Learning with Multiple Intelligences in The Walking Dead, Elizabeth Gartley

A Gendered Perspective on Policing Violence in Happy Valley and Fargo, T. Allen Culpepper

The Many Faces of Foley: A Journey of Discovery and Influence on Professional Wrestling, Adam Michael Nicks

The Many Faces Of Foley: A Journey Of Discovery And Influence On Professional Wrestling, Adam Michael Nicks

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Though the academic community often looks down on professional wrestling, there are examples in which the medium allows for elaborate and complex storytelling rivaling other forms of literature. During the 1990s, due to the constant blurring of the lines between reality and fiction within the world of wrestling and the increasingly intelligent audience that consumed the product, performers were forced to adapt to a more realistic style integrating their actual life events and personality into their on-screen personas. One sports entertainer of note was Mick Foley, who crafted three splintered characters he portrayed amongst numerous promotions. Each had their own …

A Gendered Perspective On Policing Violence In Happy Valley And Fargo, T. Allen Culpepper

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Portrayal of a police officer determined to fight crime and execute justice in a harsh, isolated environment has become a television and film subgenre, often featuring women facing gender-related challenges. The issues raised in Sally Wainwright’s British television series Happy Valley, can be made more accessible, particularly to American undergraduate students, via its commonalities with the Coen brothers film Fargo. In both, a tough but compassionate policewoman pursues the more sociopathic of a pair of criminals involved in a botched kidnapping attempt instigated by an inept businessman, taking on the case for personal and professional honor, and as …

We All Have Jobs Here: Teaching And Learning With Multiple Intelligences In The Walking Dead, Lizabeth Gartley

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

With the rise of cultural studies, positivism and formalism fell out of favor. But in recent years, altered versions of these methodologies have been suggested as solutions to the deficiencies of the ideological approach dominating the field. Where the ideological approach looks at the content of texts to determine their meaning, the aesthetic approach adopted by media scholars in recent years returns to the close textual readings of formalism (while abandoning its assertion that meaning resides in the text alone). Similarly, where the ideological approach tends to use textual analysis devoid of sociological empiricism, the use of “big data” in …

Grounded Aesthetics: Pedagogy For A Post-Truth Era, Becca Cragin

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

With the rise of cultural studies, positivism and formalism fell out of favor. But in recent years, altered versions of these methodologies have been suggested as solutions to the deficiencies of the ideological approach dominating the field. Where the ideological approach looks at the content of texts to determine their meaning, the aesthetic approach adopted by media scholars in recent years returns to the close textual readings of formalism (while abandoning its assertion that meaning resides in the text alone). Similarly, where the ideological approach tends to use textual analysis devoid of sociological empiricism, the use of “big data” in …

Editorial: Persistent Need To Look Behind The Curtain, Anna S. Cohenmiller

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Editorial for Volume 5, Issue 3 (October 2018) of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedogagy, Behind the Scenes: Uncovering Violence, Gender, and Powerful Pedagogy.

Reading Into Creativity: New Approaches In Concept And Practice [Dialogue, Volume 5, Issue 2 (June 2018)], Anna S. Cohenmiller, Kurt Depner

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Reading into Creativity: New Approaches in Concept and Practice [Dialogue: The Interdiscplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedogogy, Volume 5, Issue 2 (June 2018)]

Editorial

Embracing Changes and Creativity in Popular Culture and Pedagogy, Anna S. CohenMiller and Kurt Depner

Working with Students

Teaching Technical Writing through Designing and Running Escape Rooms, Marijel (Maggie) Melo and Antonnet

Johnson Deconstructing "Proper Condom Use" as an Introduction to Literary Analysis, Julie Stewart, Tom Clark, and Marilyn Clark

Working with Teachers

The Stonewall Books: LGBTQ-Themed Young Adult Novels as Semiotic Beacons, Marcos Antuna, Janis Harmon, Roxanne Henkin, Karen Wood, and Kyle Kester

Working …

Constraining The (Im)Possible: Improvisation And Violence In Rafi Zabor’S The Bear Comes Home, Hannah Ianniello

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

This paper will explore the role of jazz improvisation in the characterization of the protagonist in Rafi Zabor’s 1998 jazz novel, The Bear Comes Home. I suggest that Zabor represents the process of improvisation to not only enhance the enigma of The Bear’s ability as a jazz musician, but also to enhance his capacity towards violence.

Through the exploration of the actual process of improvisation in the research of Paul Berliner, Ingrid Monson and Alyn Shipton, Improvisation in a real jazz context is collaborative and exploratory. However, Zabor, like many other authors (such as Michael Ondaatje, James Baldwin and …

The Stonewall Books: Lgbtq-Themed Young Adult Novels As Semiotic Beacons, Marcos Antuna, Janis Harmon, Roxanne L. Henkin, Karen Wood, Kyle Kester

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

In a society where the LGBTQ community continues to feel the stings of prejudice and discrimination, a straightforward means of conveying accurate information about LGBTQ student lives is urgently needed. The Stonewall Awards, an annual literary prize for “exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/ transgender experience” (American Library Association, 2016), has the potential to serve as an appropriate semiotic beacon for both the acceptance of LGBTQ students as well as LGBTQ self-affirmation. This study investigated the perceptions of secondary school students and future high school teachers toward two Stonewall Award-winning novels. The findings revealed obvious similarities as well as critical …

Deconstructing "Proper Condom Use" As An Introduction To Literary Analysis, Julie Stewart, Thomas D. Clark, Marilyn Clark

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Popular culture figures in television, movies, comics, and video games have captured the imaginations of young people. The themes and characters of shows students watch regularly help shape their views on contemporary issues, especially as they compare their personal experiences with those portrayed on their favorite shows. This paper examines how "Proper Condom Use," an episode of South Park, one of the most popular shows among young viewers, can be used as a springboard for in-class discussion of tools for literary analysis through an exposition of this episode’s visual and aural humor, themes, characters, audience, and genre.

Our experience …

Teaching Technical Writing Through Designing And Running Escape Rooms, Marijel (Maggie) Melo, Antonnet Johnson

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

While many instructors recognize how the integration of popular culture and student interests can enhance student engagement and learning, this pedagogical approach remains rare in technical writing courses. In this article, we provide an end-to-end outline of an escape room project assigned to junior and senior level undergraduates, including an overview of our pedagogical rationale, institutional context, instructional materials, and synthesis of work produced by students. By collaborating on a range of technical documentation, students learn through experience that can be leveraged beyond the classroom and in their professional pursuits. Moreover, we aim to provide teachers with an example of …

Editorial: Embracing Changes And Creativity In Popular Culture And Pedagogy, Anna S. Cohenmiller, Kurt Depner

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Editorial for Volume 5, Issue 2 of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy (June 2018), Reading into Creativity: New Approaches in Concept and Practice.

Exploration Of The Patient Experiences Of A University Lgbtq+ Community: A Preliminary Analysis, Joelle M. Kidder, Eric G. Waldon, Tracey Delnero, Michelle Brady, Kristine Himmerick, Deepti Vyas, Vienna Sa, Malinda Thao, Lindsay Gietzen

Pacific Journal of Health

PURPOSE: This qualitative study aimed to explore the lived experiences of people from a university LGBTQ+ community to inform health professional training in the interprofessional education setting.

METHODS:

Focus groups and semi-structured interviews from the University of the Pacific LGBTQ+ community were conducted by the researchers. Participants were recruited through campus-wide notification and fliers. Focus groups were held virtually on Zoom. Participants were asked to de-identify any identifying information. Informed consent and basic demographic information were obtained electronically. Participants were asked to reflect on personal experiences of their interactions within the healthcare system. The focus groups consisted of open-ended questions …

Considering Ethical Questions In (Non)Fiction: Reading And Writing About Graphic Novels, Gene Mcquillan

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Teachers often feature graphic novels in college courses, and recent research notes how these texts can help make the process of reading more engaging as well as more complex. Graphic novels help enhance a variety of “literacies;” they offer bold representations of people dealing with trauma or marginalization; they explore how “texts” can be re-invented; they exemplify how verbal and visual texts are often adapted; they are ideal primers for introducing basic concepts of “post-modernism.” However, two recurring textual complications in graphic novels can pose difficulties for students who are writing about ethical questions. First, graphic novels often present crucial …

Dumbledore’S Uncertain Past: A Harry Potter Approach To Evaluating Sources, Kathryn N. Mcdaniel

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Teaching students to evaluate sources—for accuracy, bias, and agenda—and to use them effectively despite their weaknesses, presents a challenge, and yet is essential in today’s crowded media landscape. Most humanities and social science teachers spend at least some class time helping students develop a critical eye for documentary evidence. Using the fictional informational sources J. K. Rowling presents in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to understand Albus Dumbledore’s troubled youth can provide students the analytic skills they need through an entertaining exercise. The Harry Potter stories intrinsically value the past, though Rowling is not naïve about the difficulty of …

“This Cabal Guy Could Be Right”: Numeric Correlations In Maury Yeston’S In The Beginning, Leonard Vandegrift

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

The study of gematria and isopsephy, the numeric conversion of Hebrew and Greek words, yields an abundant harvest of biblical insight. Though applying this method to more secular literature is rare, we have a unique set of circumstances in Maury Yeston’s musical In the Beginning that renders its use appropriate. Derived from Hebrew and Greek, the names of the show’s principal characters can be converted to numeric values, all of which share at least one of three common factors. Moreover, the names are often connected thematically, and their factors reflect key elements in the first five books of the Bible. …

Social Justice From The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling As Human Rights Activist, Hugh A. D. Spencer

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Rod Serling achieved critical acclaim in the First Golden Age of Television writing realist teleplays that express a strong moral sense and social consciousness. With the decline of anthology drama at the close of the 1950s, Serling created The Twilight Zone, which would become a forum for telling relevant stories while circumventing commercial and bureaucratic interference. As a means of exploring Serling’s use of drama as a tool for social justice, this paper compares themes from The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery with charter and constitutional statements of human rights. The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights is …

November 2024 General Education Council Minutes, University Of Nebraska At Kearney General Education Council

General Education Council

No abstract provided.

California Culinary School Graduates’ Perspectives On Their Education Programs, Robert Baradaran

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The skills that culinary school graduates gain from the curriculum do not align with the culinary industry requirements for their first position. This problem, if not addressed, will lead to lower enrollment of students and a limited number of employed culinary arts graduates in California. This basic qualitative study aimed to explore California culinary school graduates’ perceptions of the education programs preparing them for their first restaurant position. The research questions guiding this study focused on (a) California culinary school graduates’ perceptions of their education programs preparing them for their first restaurant position and (b) California culinary school graduates’ perceptions …

2024-11-07 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting minutes from November 7, 2024.

2024-11-07 What It Means To Be A Senator, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

A brief reminder of what it means to be a faculty senator brought before the Faculty Senate by the Faculty Senate President on November 7, 2024.

2024-11-07 Faculty Senate Newsletter, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate newsletter from November 7, 2024.

Seventh-Day Adventist School Administrators’ Perceptions About The Effectiveness Of On-The-Job Coaching In Developing Their Leadership Behaviors, Amy Michelle Erickson Soper

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Coaching is an accepted on-the-job training and development approach for professionals in many career fields, including education, yet there is limited research on its efficacy in promoting sustained behavioral change and positive organizational outcomes. This basic qualitative study explored the perceptions of prekindergarten (PK) through 12th-grade Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) school administrators about the effectiveness of on-the-job coaching in developing their leadership behaviors. The New World Kirkpatrick model served as the conceptual framework for the study. Three research questions were designed to understand school administrators’ perceptions about (a) the effectiveness of coaching in developing their leadership behaviors, (b) the influence of …

Engaging Students And Alumni Through Executives In Residence, Bryan Austin, Michael Witt

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Over the course of 10 years, Residential Academic Initiatives at Purdue University has invited 57 prominent alumni to return to live on campus and engage in meaningful interactions with students as a part of its Executive in Residence program. In this session, the director of the program and a faculty member will share their experiences in launching and growing the program, identifying and recruiting alumni to participate, structuring their visits to maximize their impact on students, and collaborating with learning community faculty to integrate the alumni into teaching that results in purposeful and immersive learning opportunities for students. Specific examples …

2024 November 7 - From My Notepads Newsletter, Office Of The President, East Tennessee State University, Brian Noland

From My Notepads: A Newsletter from President Brian Noland

No abstract provided.

University Of Northern Iowa Graduate Studies Fourth Annual Three Minute Thesis® Competition [Program, 2024], University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate Studies.

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) at UNI Programs

Graduate students engage with audience members regarding their research.

Balancing Act: Cultivating Teacher Wellness In The Classroom, Hank Bohanon

Education: School of Education Faculty Publications and Other Works

We often hear that K-12 educators are burned out, but is that true?

Yes..according to a Gallup Poll (link), K12 Educators topped the list of professionals who were always or often burned out.

The Grizzly, November 7, 2024, Kate Horan, Renee Washart, Ashley Adam, Sidney Belleroche, Caitlin Cunnane, Nathaniel Nerone, Ava Possenti

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Launching the Hindu Student Association • Ethical Bears • A Grizzled Editor • Inside the Layout Room • Opinions: Trust the Science • Much More Than Wins and Losses With Bobbi • From Club Sport to Cheer-ocracy • Performance of the Week

Boosting The Power Performance Of Microbial Fuel Cells By Using Dual Nanomaterial-Modified Carbon Felt Electrodes, Krishna Thapa, Wenyan Liu, Yuwei Zhang, David J. Westenberg, Yishu Zhou, Risheng Wang

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Innovative design enhancements to microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are pivotal for improving their viability as renewable energy sources. This study introduces a dual approach to electrode modification, integrating polyaniline (PANI) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) on carbon felt (CF) anodes coupled with a unique cathode composed of DNA origami and chitosan. The synergistic effect of PANI and AuNPs significantly increases the hydrophilicity and conductivity of the anode, leading to a considerable surge in power density. Concurrently, the biocompatible DNA origami and chitosan-functionalized cathode facilitates efficient electron transfer without relying on conventional catalysts. Together, these modifications yield a 52.42% increase in the …