Students enter college with an intellectual-capital deficit that FYC courses can help correct, teaching students to construct their own knowledge.

Children develop their primary literacy at home and secondary literacies at school. Here’s how technology complicates that process.

Listing references at the end of a printed text no longer makes sense in a world of digital media. Here's how to re-imagine references that work everywhere.

Re-watching “Once More Unto the Breach” from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine brings to mind good teaching practices, leading to classroom balance.

In a Worf-centric episode, three other characters demonstrate how to listen with compassion when someone's perspective differs from our own.

Assignments challenge students to find creative solutions to complex problems. Here's why that's good and how to embrace the challenge.

Reviewing Star Trek: Into Darkness, with particular focus on characters and music, plus a dose of frustration for how closely it mirrored previous films.

Because grading & returning essays, more than anything else in my classes, reinforces the traditional authoritative hierarchy, I want to break that cycle.

I sincerely hope I never have my laptop stolen. But if I do, I know I have automatic, redundant, off-site, encrypted, recoverable backups. Do you?

Superhero movies are all the rage these days. We enjoy escaping reality for a while to watch larger-than-life characters fight high-stakes battles for the survival of the planet, or the species, or the universe, or whatever. In these movies, we expect great things of our heroes. They conquer evil and vanquish vexing villains, sometimes with...