PBL Learning: Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable

Disclaimer: I held many reservations toward problem-based learning (PBL) projects being used in undergraduate courses before beginning this week. Before the course, I was familiar with the concept but primarily saw PBL implemented in not higher but secondary education contexts. Continue reading PBL Learning: Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable

Making Critical Pedagogy ‘Open’: Learning Together in a Digital World

It was really nice to be more ‘textually’ engaged with Paulo Freire. I really enjoyed the clip showed a couple of week to end class and hearing him especially emphasize the benefit of problematizing assumptions that the professor is the Continue reading Making Critical Pedagogy ‘Open’: Learning Together in a Digital World

A Progressive Teaching Philosophy

“The self-paced nature of exploratory learning  relies on the notion that effective learning environments actively engage students with the material and promote meaningful associations between new material and information already known.”    B. Jean Mandernach, PhD ——————————————– This was an Continue reading A Progressive Teaching Philosophy