"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."
-- Zora Neale Hurston
How can learning be documented?
Since 1999, I have been experimenting with electronic portfolios for majors in American Studies. During the spring of 2005, I tested iWebfolio as part of a UM pilot project. Currently, I am completing a chapter on the development of eportfolios at large research universities for an edited book on electronic portfolios.
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What happens when power is shared in the classroom?
This is really about the reciprocal nature of teaching and learning. If I learn as I teach, can my students teach as they learn? To what extent can a classroom be "de-centered"? What happens when it is? How do age, gender and race factor into my own construction of authority?
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How does popular culture influence learning?
What influence does popular culture have on attitudes toward school, learning, reading and academic achievement? Is all mass popular culture essentially harmful or does it merely express justifiable hostility toward an educational system which sucks the excitement out of learning?
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How will new technologies affect teaching and learning in the coming decade?
How are new technologies changing the meaning of "literacy", and with it, the very nature of education? What will it take for the large, public research university to meet the challenge of a technologically sophisticated student body? What skills will be needed by tomorrow's professor?
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