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Humane Ingenuity 37: Data and the Humanities

Dan Cohen

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about the many datasets we’ve wrestled with this year, it’s that all the data — every single point — is the result of human decision-making. As majors have sharply declined over the last decade, a thousand verbose defenses of the humanities have been published.

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Beyond the Classroom: Establishing Partnerships for Real-World Learning and Student Success

Faculty Focus

Following Covey (2013) principle of “Think Win-Win” from his 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , partnerships should be approached with the mindset of creating mutually beneficial outcomes where all parties succeed together. Successful collaborations are built on shared goals, complementary strengths, and clear communication.

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The Role of Writing in Communicative Language Teaching: An Investigation of an AI-Integrated Classroom Activity

Faculty Focus

For students, writing in a foreign language can be intimidating, often because they feel they lack the necessary vocabulary or fear making mistakes that become fossilized (Kara, 2013; Shang, 2013; Tallon, 2009). 1, 2013, pp. 2013): 1-12. Accessed 27 Sep. 2024 Kara, S. Kearney, E. Multilingual Matters, 2016. 1, 1992, pp.

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The Appreciative Close: A Strategy for Creating a Classroom Community

Faculty Focus

Part of the value of this reminder is to help students recognize that our goal for the course is not limited to academic learning but that we bring our whole selves into the classroom and our way of relating to each other should be a fully human one rather than merely instructional discourse. Faculty Focus. Accessed on May 30, 2018.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Share rubrics in advance, collaborate with students to create or adjust rubrics, and encourage students to self-assess before submitting assignments (Brookhart, 2013). Rubrics as roadmaps: Use detailed and intentional rubrics, not just to grade but as tools to teach students what quality work looks like and what to aspire to in their work.

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Will the use of generative AI shift higher education from a knowledge-first system to a skills-first system?

HEPI

It was suggested that these are distinctly human skills: relationship building, in-person communication, and leadership. Founded in 2013, Kortext is the UKs leading student experience and engagement expert, pioneering digitally enhanced teaching and learning in the higher education community. Are we assessing them?

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Parroting romanticized myths about English and humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

” What he cites is not scientific and excludes basic humanity and context, the fundamentals of the historical human sciences. There is a significant literature from the 1930s on of which Newman, Heller, and too many humanities professors seem unaware. Illogically, we remained isolationist and separatist.