This emotionally tough week ended with a message from a student. She didn’t understand the prompt I left for the online discussion. I quickly realized that the misunderstanding revolved around the word “ethical.” Now, I have the equivalent of two master’s degrees, so I naturally (and incorrectly) assumed that “ethical” was a word my students…
Author: Leslie Johnson
Choosing Which Literacies to Teach
My Faculty Learning Community is reading the final chapter to Daniel Keller’s book, Chasing Literacy. In my original reading of this text, I crafted this bit of marginalia: Keller’s questions focused on whether or not composition faculty should teach students to create traditional college essays or more modern “multi-modal” compositions. However, those questions also apply to…
Even This Post Was Hard Work
Through elementary and high school, I thought writing and reading were easy because I was smart and bookish. As a journalism major at Ohio State, computers were just coming into newsrooms, but it never occurred to me that printed language was itself a technology. After I went back to earn my teaching certificate in Secondary…
