Procrastadabbler

I’m co-teaching a research methods class and we wanted to start students on taking field notes. We came up with the grand plan of staging a fight and having the students then write what they saw. We wanted to demonstrate how one’s positionality affects field notes.
But, it kind of backfired. They thought the fight was [...]

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I’m moving oh so slowly on an article, but it’s moving along. I’m seeing it take shape. I hope to have it finished within a few weeks. I can only work on it in little chunks of time, but there is enough done now that I’m encouraged to finish. I just got a revise and [...]

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In much of my work I write about marginalization and how specific groups of young people are at risk of marginalization. I write about how different digital literacy practices prepare some young people for participation in a 21st century economy and marginalize other students. But as I think about this more and more, I think [...]

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One thing about teaching is that rather than being the expert, I’m constantly discovering what I don’t know and what I’m not good at.
1) Classroom management. I’m organized, but little things like agendas, and passing out papers, and organizing groups, and transitions, and keeping students on task. All weaknesses of mine. Sometimes I marvel that [...]

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I made the leap and trimmed a few things out of my professional life. Things I didn’t want to give up, but at the risk of sounding melodramatic, I think I was edging close to a breakdown. But today I gave myself the gift of a day of writing. And it was fabulous. I got [...]

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