by Michael Hernandez | Jul 12, 2024 | Instructional design, Pedagogy
UChicago’s well-known undergraduate Core Curriculum serves the goal of “cultivat[ing] in students a range of insights, habits of mind, and scholarly experiences.” This series of blog posts highlights ways in which technology can support those valuable habits of mind....
by Michael Hernandez | Jun 24, 2024 | Pedagogy
Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay Many educators would agree on the value of close, careful reading, engaged discussions, and writing that thoughtfully incorporates primary sources, but it can be challenging to support students in achieving these goals. This is...
by Michael Hernandez | Mar 26, 2024 | Try IT
As you prepare for the new quarter, you may be looking for a way to promote engagement with class reading and discussion. This blog post offers insights from our autumn quarter faculty panel on social annotation, a practice which many instructors find can do just...
by Michael Hernandez | Feb 8, 2023 | Instructional design, Uncategorized
ATS instructional designer Thomas Keith and digital pedagogy fellow Sarah McDaniel contributed content to this article. If you’re an instructor who values the idea of writing-to-learn in your pedagogy, recent news of higher-quality AI-generated writing may have you...
by Michael Hernandez | Jan 13, 2023 | Instructional design, Uncategorized
“Arguably scholarship is entirely dependent on annotation; scholarship is an exercise in annotation. Research depends on the ability to cite other research, and a citation is an annotation to that other work.” – Jeffrey Pomerantz, quoted in Annotation by Remi...