21st Century Scholar

by Mark Marino Below is the class projects, described by Erica Mau and Marissa Honda, students in Writing 340: Advanced Writing for Arts and Humanities.  This project is based on an growing movement that might be called curricular emergency preparedness.  Their words follow: Before every plane takes off the runway, flight attendants walk through the [...]

by Mark Marino Here’s the last of the articles about the student projects, written by Raksha “Rocky” Pradhan in Writing 340: Advanced writing for Arts and Humanities. THE LONG DISTANCE PLAY This fall semester, Mark Marino’s Writing 340 class has decided to participate in a service project that will reach out to St. Mary Kevin [...]

by Mark Marino Before I go, I wanted to update you on the latest project my students are working on.   Trying to follow a more student-centered pedagogy, I’ve turned these posts over to my students.  The first was written by Connie Shao, I member of my course Writing 340: Advanced Writing for Social Sciences.  (I’m [...]

A few weeks ago I attended an event at USC held by the Center for Scholarly Technology entitled: The Future of the Learning Management System II: The Challenge of the Cloud Complete video and slides of the event are here. The speakers included Stephanie Coopman (San Jose State University) and my nemesis Niall Sclater (Open [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPzkwwTUlI0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] Last summer, Los Angeles Unified School District canceled summer school for K-8, leaving tens of thousands of children without, among other things, guided instruction.  Of course, wealthy Westsiders had their pick of summer programs.   Those with a little less, had to make do as they could.  Students in my Writing 340: Advanced Writing course [...]

[This post is based on a talk I recently delivered to the PACRAO. Meet Lyla.   Now in her senior year of high school, she's been a cheerleader and a good student.  She's even lead a Bible study at the juvenile hall.  Sweet girl.  Like a growing number of teens, she uses Twitter.  In one of [...]

by Mark Marino Given the woeful state of Course Management Systems and the bedlam of platforms, browsers, and online environments used by students today, given the tremendous backlog of help requests in IT departments all over the academic universe, I propose that we move from the penitentiary practice of containing students within the opaque walls [...]