I’ve been trying to come up with a way to help students in my second-year journalism class, which is their first experience with journalistic writing. I’ve decided to give diagnostic learning logs a try, since they should help students think more critically about their writing.

As I was reading and thinking about microlearning, I kept comparing it to what I had learned as a journalist. People have limited attention spans and those attention spans are getting shorter.

It’s one thing to be interested in new trends in education — it’s quite another thing to implement them. 

I’ve been thinking a lot about trends in adult education lately — partly because I’m teaching full-time this semester and partly because I’m taking a course called Foundations of Adult Education.