Project InTERSECT Integrated STEM Badge Facilitator’s Guide

This guide supports STEM teacher educators who would like to offer the 8-week Project InTERSECT Integrated STEM badge course (15 hours) to a small group of elementary pre-service or practicing teachers. The facilitator’s guide describes the structure of the Canvas course, editable text for weekly announcements, and suggested feedback statements to support weekly activity completion and reflection.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/stem_integration/1000/thumbnail.jp

Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution

Book Review of Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution / Organized by Cornelia Butler.--ISBN-13 978-0-914357-99-5. Reviewed by Terrie L. Wilson

Criticality and the exercise of politeness in online spaces for professional learning

This research examines masters-accredited online professional learning aimed at fostering criticality and a disposition to collective professional autonomy. Drawing on a model of online learning conceived as a nexus of cognitive, social and teaching presence, we focus principally on the interaction between cognitive and social presence, and the ways in which written language mediates social presence in fostering a critical disposition to professional learning. A key concept for analysing this ispoliteness, predicated on Goffman's construct of ‘face’, i.e. the work individuals do in presenting themselves to others. We conclude that the ‘collective face wants’ of the online community led to the creation of an online space in which participants were supported by their peers to do ‘being critical’. The purpose of the analysis presented here is to contribute to theory around ‘social presence’ in order to further the understanding of collaborative learning in online spaces and hence to support the development of pedagogical practices aimed at facilitating this

Small data, online learning and assessment practices in higher education: a case study of failure?

In this paper we present an in-depth case study of a single student who failed an online module which formed part of a masters programme in Professional Education and Leadership. We use this case study to examine assessment practices in higher education in the online environment. In taking this approach we go against the current predilection for Big Data which has given rise to ‘learning analytics’, a data-intensive approach to monitoring learning. In particular we draw attention to the model of the learner produced by learning analytics and to issues of ‘dataveillance’ in online learning. We also use the case to examine assessment in higher education more broadly, exploring the tensions between the requirements for certification and the need for learning. We conclude that assessment practices in higher education may have more to do with ‘quality assurance’ and regulatory frameworks than with ‘enhancing the student experience’ and inculcating the qualities that mark out higher education as an ethical project

Review: Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw

Book review of Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw by Kathleen Ash-Milby et al. The Art Institute of Chicago distributed by Yale University Press, July 2021. 252 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25748-9 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Leslie Vega, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Macdonald-Kelce Library, The University of Tampa, [email protected]

Review: Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art

Review of Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art by Bert Winther-Tamaki. University of Minnesota Press, June 2022. 312 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-1190-4 $34.95. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/tsuchi. Reviewed November 2022 by John Hosford, Art Librarian, Scholes Library, Alfred University, [email protected]

Review: Códice Maya de México: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas

Book review of Códice Maya de México: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas edited by Andrew Turner et al. Getty Research Institute : J. Paul Getty Museum, November 2022. 96 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-788-8 $24.95. https://shop.getty.edu/products/codice-maya-de-mexico-understanding-the-oldest-surviving-book-of-the-americas-978-1606067888. Reviewed January 2023 by Jacob Lackner, Teaching and Learning Librarian, Oxford College of Emory University, [email protected]

Review: Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi’s Image Making by Ying-chen Peng

Review: Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi’s Image Making by Ying-chen Peng. Yale University Press, January 2023. 208 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26343-5 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed May 2023 by Katie Edmiston, Arts, Media & Design Librarian, Central Michigan University, Park Library, [email protected]

Review: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970

Book review of The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970 by Kenneth Frampton. Yale University Press, January 2022. 344 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-23889-1 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed March 2022 by Paul Glassman, Director of Scholarly and Cultural Resources, Yeshiva University, [email protected]

Review: Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists

Review of Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists by Lisa Slominski. Yale University Press, April 2022. 400 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26022-9 (h/c), $44.90. Reviewed July 2022 by Freyja T. Catton, Writer and Artist, Wordeater Consulting, [email protected]