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Grades in the Seminar
Yesterday for the first time all semester a student raised a question about grades. (Clearly this doesn’t mean yesterday was the first time students have thought about it.) He mentioned that his mother asked how he was doing and he … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Meta 2
As I read over my principles students’ second metacognitive activity this weekend, I had a couple thoughts. First, the administrative one: Fewer students submitted this meta: 54% versus 70% for the first meta. Still, it’s more submissions than meta 2 … Continue reading
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“Teaching” from a Distance
Late Friday afternoon I found out I had to be away Monday thru Wednesday, which meant I would not be able to attend the first year seminar Tuesday. What to do? Saturday morning while listening to our new President Bill … Continue reading
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Has the bubble burst?
Okay, I admit to being an optimist, perhaps even an incorrigible one. Today I ran across one of my first year seminar students and I asked her: How is our class really going? She said, “fine.” But then when I … Continue reading
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Second Stab at Collective Learning
Before Class: A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how my students found it difficult to collaborate to develop a single consensus definition of globalization. This week we’ve been trying a second time to develop a class consensus, this … Continue reading
Rethinking Grades and Learning
Is learning fundamentally a flow or a stock? Is learning about improving your skills and knowledge or about being skilled and knowledgeable? I ask these questions because often it appears to me that we’re grading what students know more than … Continue reading
Status Report on the Metas
Last week I reported on the first meta discussion in my intro course this term. Over the weekend I read over their responses and drew some conclusions. First, the majority of students completed the assignment, 70% as compared to 35% … Continue reading
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Are my students genuinely thinking about globalization?
I couldn’t resist posting this clever quotation from Anya: The fact that you can buy shoes from Italy and listen to Buddhist songs while troubled about whether the imported beef you had for lunch contained mad cow disease is a … Continue reading
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(Real) Teaching is Hard
One of the underlying assumptions of my previous post was that teaching, real teaching (at least at the university level) is far more than just transmitting content. Laura’s recent post at Geeky Mom makes this clear: The thing that’s hard … Continue reading
Coming to Class Unprepared
It’s no secret that faculty sometimes come to class unprepared and have to “wing it.” By unprepared I don’t mean having nothing prepared to say, though I did that a few times, unfortunately, as a new teacher. What I mean … Continue reading