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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 09 May 12 - No Cached

Humanities students are not used to failure. They want to get it right the first time. When they are new to the game, they want to get good grades on what are essentially first drafts. Once they learn how much work it is to write and edit a really good essay, their goals shift—from getting A's on papers written the night before to getting A's and making the difficult process look effortless.
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I had a colleague who had a poster in his dining room with Samuel Beckett's "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." We may tell ourselves that, but we don't tell our students. Maybe we should post it in our classrooms, not our dining rooms.
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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 26 Oct 09 - Cached

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 30 Oct 09 - Cached

Debunking Stereotypes. In this project, students collect information about the cultural stereotypes of their countries and and debunk them. Facilitated by Saeed Al Abdulsalam in Oman. Poster at right by Macedonia team. Read more and connect to the forum.
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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 14 Nov 09 - Cached

it’s now standard practice, for example, to require students in a first-year-composition class to know how to use a word processor and to learn how to make good use of a database: those are not considered “computing skills” anymore. They’re just skills.
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we’ve long assumed that students become better writers by reading a great deal; and we assume that experience at writing makes them better readers. For many generations, these 2 sides of the textual coin have been taught hand-in-hand: we don’t teach students to be consumers of words and then maybe later teach them (or teach only some of them, depending on their major or their future career) how to create words. Instead, they learn those skills simultaneously.
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