All posts by Julie Sievers

Apr 30 | Teaching “integrative” thinking

Assigned Readings


Suggestions for Further Reading


Resources

Apr 9 | Teaching information literacy for the 21st century

Assigned readings

  • Borgman, Christine.  ”Chapter 1: Scholarship at a Crossroads.”  In Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. (attached to the email announcement).
  • Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.”  Association of College and Research Libraries, 2000.

 

Suggestions for further reading

Mar 19 | Teaching Global Learning: Theory & Practice

Assigned readings


Suggestions for further reading

  •  Hovland, Kevin Shared Futures: Global Learning & Liberal EducationAmerican Association of Colleges & Universities, 2009.  Especially relevant are chapters 2 & 3, which provide concrete examples of how colleges and universities are (and aren’t) enacting global learning in their curricula.
  • Anderson, Chad and David Blair. “Developing a Global Learning Rubric: Strengthening Teaching and Improving Learning.”  Diversity & Democracy 16 (2013).

 

Feb 19 | Teaching Quantitative Literacy Across the Curriculum

Assigned Readings

  • The Preface – “Mathematics, Numeracy, and Democracy” (xiii-xix) + Chapter 1:  “The Case for Quantitative Literacy,” (1-19) from Mathematics and Democracy (2001).
  • Wolfe, Joanna.  “Rhetorical Numbers: A Case for Quantitative Writing in the Composition Classroom.”  College Composition and Communication 61 (2010): 434-457.
  • AAC&U VALUE Rubric for Quantitative Literacy


Suggestions for Further Reading

  • The St. Edward’s Proposal for QL project, as submitted to the NSF in 2012.  (2 pgs).
  • Madison, Bernard & Lynn Steen, eds. Quantitative Literacy: Why Numeracy Matters for Schools and Colleges. National Council on Education and the Disciplines, 2003.

 

Welcome, Books & Coffee Sp’14 participants!

Welcome to the spring 2014 semester of the Books & Coffee reading group.  Some of you may be regular group members who join us for the entire semester.  Some of you may plan to attend just one topic or another.  Whoever you are, we hope this site makes it easy to participate in the group and enables you to continue to share ideas and discussion, even after the meeting ends.

Readings are posted through this site, generally as hyperlinks to publicly available articles.  You will always find the next meeting’s readings posted on the “Meetings & Discussions” page.  We may sometimes share PDF files of materials, however, and we will send these to you via email.

Comments can be posted below the days’ readings on the “Meetings & Discussions” page.  Feel free to use this feature either to share your views or to share additional reading materials.

Share relevant articles via Twitter .  Our group Twitter feed (which pulls all Tweets tagged with the hashtag #stedsbc) appears on every page.  If you’re a Twitter user, feel free to share comments or links to articles in this way.  (You can also share comments and links via the comments  feature on each page).

Want a site like this for your own class?  This is called an “Edublogs” site.  Edublogs are flexible WordPress sites, and any St. Edward’s faculty member (full-time or adjunct) can get them for himself or herself.  You can set one up as a personal site or create one for any of your classes. Contact the Faculty Resource Center if you’re interested.

I’m looking forward to lots of energetic conversations with all of you.  And yep, we’ll always have coffee.

Julie Sievers
Director, Center for Teaching Excellence