Spring 2020 Cluster Experiences
Plymouth State University will continue to offer students the opportunity to participate in cluster experiences in the Spring 2020 semester. Recall that cluster learning is what happens when faculty members…
September Movies
Peanut Butter Falcon ☆☆☆☆ I liked this movie more than I expected to. From the previews, I thought it might be overly sappy. It wasn't. Until the end. The only…
Understanding the Habits of Mind
A major goal of our Tackling a Wicked Problem class is to introduce students to our General Education program's Habits of Mind, which are the learning outcomes of the program. Understanding…
Climate Change Projects
My students in Tackling a Wicked Problem engaged in their first project on Friday of last week when they participated in the Climate Strike. They decided that instead of coming…
Climate Change One Pager Assignment
My section of the Tackling a Wicked Problem course is focused on climate change. I gave the students the following list of phrases and challenged them to explain the ways…
August Movies
The Farewell ☆☆☆☆ Great movie based on actual events. Awkwafina plays Billi, a Chinese American woman in her 30s whose grandmother back in China has just been diagnosed with stage…
Cluster Learning, Community, and Change
With more than 70 of my colleagues, I have spent a significant portion of my summer participating in the Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community (CPLC). Although the community will continue to…
One Pagers–First Attempts
Pat Cantor recently posted about a tool she is going to use in her Tackling a Wicked Problem class this fall: one pagers. I'm intrigued and intimidated by the idea…
INCAP Report
This is part of the report that I am planning to submit to the General Education Committee at PSU next week reflecting on our experiences with our potential new Integrated…
July Movies
I only saw two movies in the entire month of July! Lucky they were both great! Yesterday ☆☆☆☆☆ I smiled through this whole movie. Surprisingly sweet with great music. At…
TWP and Information Literacy: An Action Plan
I'm in the middle of planning my section of Tackling a Wicked Problem for the Fall 2019 semester. One of the most important aspects of the class is that students…
Connections: Cluster Pedagogy and Habits of Mind
For me, pedagogy is part of an always unfinished project intent on developing a meaningful life for all students. --On Critical Pedagogy, Henry Giroux I'll start this post with a…
June Movies
Wild Nights With Emily ☆☆☆☆ Molly Shannon is such a surprise as Emily Dickinson. Very fun and strange movie about Dickinson's love affair with her sister-in-law. At Red River with…
PSU at the Institute for Project Based Learning
For the last five summers, the Center for Project-Based Learning at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has offered a project-based learning institute for teams from colleges and universities who are interested…
Rocketman
I first saw a trailer for this movie over a year ago and I was kind of skeptical at the idea of a biopic that billed itself as a "true…
TWP Action Plan
At the June 4 meeting of the Tackling a Wicked Problem instructors group, we were asked to develop an action plan to lay out things we need to learn about…
OER for Tackling a Wicked Problem
Draft of the #OER for our new Tackling a Wicked Problem course. Feedback welcome! https://wicked-problem.press.plymouth.edu/
May Movies
I have to be better about posting my movie "reviews" more quickly. I get overwhelmed thinking that I need to write something about the movie when really the whole point…
Domain Camp 2019
I am going to participate in Domain Camp 2019 this summer. It is a community focused on creating, maintaining, and extending domains for educators. The open invitation describes the camp…
Assessment Conference Debrief
I went to the 3rd Annual Higher Education Assessment Conference in Henniker last week. It's kind of an amazing conference because it is so cheap to attend--$50 for the main…
