Spring 2010 Academy Forums
Teaching Naked
HELD: Monday, April 12th, 2010
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Faculty Club, Dining Room
Dean José Bowen, Meadow School of the arts has proposed in essays and interviews a restricted use of technology in the classroom. Termed “teaching naked”, the goal is to reserve classroom time for more spontaneous, interactive and memorable experiences, while using technology more as a pre-class instruction tool. Is the ability to “teach naked” restricted by discipline or course? Could “teaching naked” ultimately be the chief distinction between the residential university and online degree programs? Join Dean Bowen and a panel from the Center for Teaching Excellence in a lively discussion of his proposal.
Read more in SMU Magazine fall/winter 2009 issue.
Interdisciplinary Teaching
HELD: Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Faculty Club, Dining Room
Join professors Bonnie Wheeler (English) and Olga Colbert (Foreign Languages) and other panelists to discuss several facets of interdisciplinary teaching. First we will consider variety-- from team-teaching to interdisciplinary teaching within a disciplinary course. We’ll ask hard questions about some dangers of the interdisciplinary classroom, such as how faculty convey vocabulary and ideas that are characteristic of particular disciplines so that our discourse does not “flatten” disciplinary modes of thought. We will consider possible pitfalls/obstacles as well as pleasures of interdisciplinary and team-teaching?