Friday Fragments, August 7th
Humanizing our courses, online proctoring, a glimpse into the writing process, and the importance of learning to pronounce our students' names.
What I’m reading & listening to:
Today I listened to Episode 42 of ThinkUDL, Whole-Student Learning Online with Michelle Pacansky-Brock, about preparing for remote learning. The interview focuses on humanizing our online courses and how to encourage equitable participation.
This op-ed, Software that monitors students during tests perpetuates inequality and violates their privacy, by Shea Swauger, walks though many concerns with using online test proctoring, and concludes that:
Cheating is not the threat to society that test proctoring companies would have you believe. It doesn’t dilute the value of degrees or degrade institutional reputations…[t]he best thing we in higher education can do is to start with the radical idea of trusting students. Let’s choose compassion over surveillance.
This interesting thread by John Warner about the writing process - because I appreciate making explicit the secret, hidden processes that experts go through to produce expert-level work:
And, for fun - and because I have an eminently unpronounceable name - What’s in a Name? Plenty by Suchandrika Chakrabarti
Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash
Thanks for reading!