First Year Students as a New Thought – The Learning Institutional “Brain”
Because we speak quite a bit at Swift Kick, and because we work on the new stuff, where abstraction is common, “vision” is everywhere, and hard experience is limited, we love the analogy. We love to ground the new in the schema of the old. This is just what effective teachers do all the time. […]
Conference on the First Year Experience and the Genius of our Community
We often feel really dumb in our work when we repeat the same silly mistakes. This time we wasted four days of work thinking we could come up with the answer on our own instead of asking for advice from the rich pool of knowledge around us. Last week we reached out to our community […]
Red Rover at the National Conference of FYE
Happy to announce that we’ve been accepted to present Red Rover at the National Conference of the First Year Experience in February. It’s a big honor and a critical conversation. Definitely, a challenge is that we had to submit our proposal some time ago. We had hoped to be farther along with case studies, but […]