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Brad Cartwright was kind enough to provide a tip based on last week's workshop on Perusall:
Turn reading assignments into a collaborative activity with social annotation platforms like Hypothesis or Perusall. These tools can make learning more engaging, while fostering a sense of community among your students. And by annotating the reading material and encountering other perspectives beforehand, students arrive to class much better prepared for in-class discussions. These platforms also provide an alternative mode of participation for those students who may be hesitant to speak up in class.
What can we learn by examining the experiences of refugees who traveled in and beyond Europe during the Holocaust? How did one become a refugee? And what were some of their routes, places of transit, failed exits, as well as locations of temporary and permanent refuge? The 2024 Silberman Faculty Seminar focuses on teaching topics relating to refugees and the Holocaust from a range of interdisciplinary approaches—including but not limited to perspectives from literature, art, history, migration, human rights, and memory studies.
I think group work is just as challenging for the instructor as it is for the student. I always struggle with how to make it fair, but, as life teaches us, group work does not go away. I appreciate this thoughtful post on the subject (and her contributions to Teaching Tuesdays!) by Kat Ringenbach:
Recently I have had conversations about assigning group work and how it can be successfully
used within a class. As a student, I absolutely hated group work, so I definitely have a bias
against having students do group work, particularly in online classes. However, I do wonder if I
am hurting my