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A Radical Idea: on the job training
Intermediate Macroeconomics, one of our core gatekeeping courses, taught as a seminar to 40 students. Impending disaster? Trainwreck waiting to happen? Perhaps. But, I prefer to think of it as a possible answer to a question I’ve been mulling over … Continue reading
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Update on Gardner’s APGAR
A couple weeks ago I mentioned introducing Gardner’s APGAR assessment to my First Year Seminar students. My students subsequently corrected my math, much as Gardner suggested in his comment to my post: The average APGAR for the class turned out … Continue reading
Road Trip
Tomorrow I’m heading down to Charleston, SC to attend the annual meetings of the Southern Economics Association. I will be participating (with KimMarie McGoldrick) in a panel discussion on supervising undergraduate research in economics. KimMarie and I conducted a survey … Continue reading
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Gardner’s APGAR Assessment for Classes
Another thing I did in the First Year Seminar on Tuesday was to show them Gardner’s APGAR post. I asked the students to answer the questions for themselves. I had set up a spreadsheet on the classroom computer and asked … Continue reading
Posted in First Year Seminar
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Who Dropped the Ball? I Guess It Was Me
I spent a fair amount of time last weekend thinking about what went wrong in the first year seminar on Thursday. I didn’t realize until today that I was looking too far afield. My first thought was to be disappointed … Continue reading
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A Swing and a Miss
The other week, I blogged about my students backchanneling during my class via IM. Martha suggested we try to formalize that arrangement on the course website. She and Jerry (or was it Jerry and she?) installed a chat box on … Continue reading
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Why Practitioners Should Incorporate Technology in Higher Education
I haven’t been subtle in this blog about suggesting that teachers should seriously consider incorporating the tools of instructional technology to enhance their students’ learning. Gregg Stull just provided the best statement I’ve yet found to support this argument. Read … Continue reading
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What Does School 2.0 Look Like?
David Warlick just published a provocative article in TechLearning called “A Day in the Life of Web 2.0” which provides a vision of what School 2.0 could look like. It’s similar to an earlier piece by Will Richardson. It also … Continue reading
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Sitting In On My Own Class
Interesting seminar today. Charlotte Jones gave an excellent presention on library research skills–something I thought freshmen got in English composition, but this presentation was very much tailored to our course. Hart overslept, but Stephen clued me in that he was … Continue reading
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Back to balloon bursting
Recently, I’ve been writing about reality intruding on my First Year Seminar, where students are beginning to worry about their grade in the course rather than their learning, and where I fear some students may be using the freedom the … Continue reading
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