Action, Connection, Communication: The Honors Classroom in the Digital Age

For more than a decade, the two of us, an historian and a literature professor, have co-taught a 12-credit European Civilization sequence for firstyear honors students. Last year Grand Valley inaugurated an impressive new living and learning center, which includes two innovative classrooms dubbed “Learn Labs,” Steelcase’s effort to bring twenty-first century design to traditional classrooms that may have met the needs of the nineteenth century but have lingered long beyond their usefulness. In the Learn Lab, five conference tables, arranged in a star shape, supplant regimented rows of desks. At the head of each table, pillars provide electrical and projector connections. Three large screens placed around the room can project a monitor from anyone’s laptop or from the instructor’s station tucked in a corner. We can walk around the room and still operate the interactive “Walk and Talk” board. Document cameras allow us to save the day’s work by recording marker-board scribblings or individual documents

Action, Connection, Communication: The Honors Classroom in the Digital Age

For more than a decade, the two of us, an historian and a literature professor, have co-taught a 12-credit European Civilization sequence for firstyear honors students. Last year Grand Valley inaugurated an impressive new living and learning center, which includes two innovative classrooms dubbed “Learn Labs,” Steelcase’s effort to bring twenty-first century design to traditional classrooms that may have met the needs of the nineteenth century but have lingered long beyond their usefulness. In the Learn Lab, five conference tables, arranged in a star shape, supplant regimented rows of desks. At the head of each table, pillars provide electrical and projector connections. Three large screens placed around the room can project a monitor from anyone’s laptop or from the instructor’s station tucked in a corner. We can walk around the room and still operate the interactive “Walk and Talk” board. Document cameras allow us to save the day’s work by recording marker-board scribblings or individual documents

Thus to Revisit or Thus to Revise-It : Ernest Hemingway, Defiant Disciple

Chronicles the young Hemingway’s frustration with Ford’s mentoring and conservative managing of the transatlantic review. Swartzlander contends that despite Hemingway’s growing animosity toward Ford, The Sun Also Rises clearly demonstrates Ford’s significant influence on the young writer in terms of stylistic technique, characterization, and use of place names and biblical allusions