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The Anxious Student
(JESHOOTS-com, 2018) By Dr. Michelle Bianco This blog post examines the rising anxiety among college students through the work of Jonathan Haidt’sThe Anxious Generation (2024), which attributes escalating mental health challenges to the digital “great rewiring’ of childhood. Drawing on research by Pennebaker and Smyth (2016), Ramadhanti et al. (2019), and Vidrine-Isbell (2025), this post highlights…
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Spontaneous Learning in the Seminar Chat Forum
By Dr. Robert Musante The chat forum in seminars is a space for teachers and students to perceive topics and ideas, and teachers are the guides for unfettered conversations. Through these talks, students learn how their messages have power for an audience. To advance these discussions, spontaneity becomes a pedagogical instrument: when students instantaneously express…
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