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Postscript on the FSEM
Shannon posts some insightful reflections on the first year seminar last semester. This is exactly what I was trying to accomplish. (I wonder how many other students ‘got it.’)
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Post Script on Real School
This is a follow-up to my previous post. Have students ever made you think that at least sometimes, formal course requirements get in the way of real learning? I’ve had two recent experiences that make me wonder. 1. Several students … Continue reading
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What’s Cool about Real School?
When I attend professional conferences I almost always learn a few things useful for my teaching and research. In fact, that’s my definition of a successful conference–”one in which I learn something useful. Maybe it’s the way my mind works, … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching and Learning, What is Education?
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Even More Fishing
More thoughts on the proper role of technology staff in supporting the teaching of faculty and the appropriate sharing of their respective responsibilities. In particular, this post is a response to Gardner’s comment and Laura’s more recent post. Gardner observes … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching and Learning, University 2.0
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Response to Fishing vs. Teaching to Fish
Laura at Geeky Mom raises some important issues as we move away from a traditional model of teaching to one involving more technology: To what extent should IT support staff do tasks for instructors as opposed to teaching them how … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching and Learning, University 2.0
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Teaching 2.0
Judith Boettcher has an article in the latest issue of Innovate which provides the best guidance I’ve seen to date on how to design a course for University 2.0. The article draws from research on how people learn to develop … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching and Learning, University 2.0
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My Bad
I’m supervising a number of independent studies this semester. In fact, I lost track of how many students talked to me at the end of last semester about my supervising their research. At the end of the “add period”, I … Continue reading
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A Purer Version of Just-in-Time Teaching
Yesterday I set my alarm a little early to have enough time first thing in the morning to collect and sort the questions for Chapter 6. This was the first chapter that was beyond introductory material, so I wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in BigWiki, Economics, Teaching and Learning
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More Than Eye Candy?
I’m a visual learner. Alan made a post today that really caught my eye. I’ve been aware of this technology since some years ago when a friend referred me to the visual thesaurus. Since then I thought this was really … Continue reading
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Textbooks 2.0: A new model for the publishing industry?
An interesting article in a recent Wall Street Journal reminded me of some thoughts I’ve had about possible directions for texts in U2.0. The article made some observations about how certain traditional products were based on making customers purchase things … Continue reading
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