Writing in the Disciplines @ Dawson

Laetitia Desanti: Pourquoi Writing in the Disciplines?

Je suis partie d’une volonté de réfléchir, grâce à mon implication dans ce groupe de réflexion, à la manière dont je pouvais proposer aux élèves une alternative aux travaux d’écriture traditionnels et faire en sorte que les étudiants soient moins entravés par la barrière de la langue pour exprimer leur pensée.

David Weeks: What is Industrial Design?

Have you ever wondered how that phone or kitchen appliance that you own came to exist, or all those products at the local big box store as you wandered the aisles looking for something specific? Everything made by humans around us, whether it be our clothes, cars, furniture, electronics, homes, and everything in them was designed by someone, somewhere.

Sonia Zylberberg: Portfolio within a portfolio.

Over the course of the WID fellowship, I came across many ideas that caught my interest and enthusiasm. In thinking about my WID portfolio, I realized I wanted to put into practice all (or at least some) of these, and that, in fact, a portfolio was the ideal framework within which to do so.

So… my portfolio is a portfolio.

Jean-Francois Briere: Using informal writing to encourage reading prior to class

In many courses, attempts to increase active learning in class are often blocked by the necessity of covering a lot of content. One solution to the problem is to force students to come to class prepared by asking them to do the low cognitive level learning on their own, in some more or less radical versions of the flipped classroom.