EDible News: Ana-Maria Jerca, Contributor I always knew I wanted to be a teacher. I remember telling my parents so in the first grade. Since then, numerous other career options were explored by my young mind - in the second grade, I wanted to be an astronaut; in the tenth, a screenwriter - but I always […]
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We Need to Speak the Same Language
EDible News: Mercy Yulien, Contributor Can we change our existing discourses of spoken and written English? As educators, we have been trusted with a responsibility that is often bigger than us. Our classrooms are communities that exist within the bigger world. This is how I envision this relationship: our little community interacts with other little communities within the bigger […]
Education = (E)MOTION
EDible News: Nadine Wyczolkowski, Staff Writer Fourth Year Undergraduate, Concurrent I/S: Social Science & Geography Learning involves a great deal of movement, whether it is the reciprocal exchange of ideas and feedback from person to person through the intangible, to the physical kinesthetic learning that takes place through various learning modalities, to more literal interpretations […]
Writing Prompt: Literacy Lost?
You may not realize it, but at this moment you are reading myriad forms of text. You are likely not a computer programmer, but as you read this written text, you’re also engaging with or “reading” HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) projected by your computer as an image. You are, as we say, “digitally literate.” Our […]
