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Training First Years to be Intentional Learners
For much of the second half of the semester, I’ve been concerned that the students in my First Year Seminar were not putting in the effort that I expected of them. This was surprising because they seem to be very … Continue reading
Preface to the next few posts
For about the last month, I’ve found myself thinking deeply about questions I pondered when I first started blogging: What is learning? What should the objectives of college courses be? What should course grades be based on? This recent train … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching and Learning
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Challenging Questions
This is a follow-up to the challenging student post, though it’s not primarily about the student. We met and discussed what he hoped to get of the course. I offered to give him a more advanced textbook, one designed for … Continue reading
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TLT Fellows Projects
I have the privilege this year of participating on our school’s Teaching and Learning Technology Fellows program, a faculty development program for instructors interested in incorporating instructional technology into their teaching. Participants meet weekly for a semester and explore IT … Continue reading
AAUP and the Future of Higher Education
I had the opportunity this week of attending a lunch discussion with Ernie Benjamin, Interim General Secretary of the American Association of University Professors. The session was very informal, with faculty coming and going as needed while Dr. Benjamin discussed … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching and Learning, University 2.0
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It’s not just semantics
I returned the first exam in my intro course the other day. The average grade was a bit lower than normal. I wonder if that reflects the somewhat higher than normal number of first year students in it. I did … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching and Learning, The Experiment
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The grade’s the thing
Between my first year seminar and two intro courses, I am teaching a lot of freshmen this semester. I really enjoy freshmen. They are fresh; they generally do what you ask of them (e.g. readings), and they show more progress … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching and Learning
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UMWBlogs, Baby; They’re taking over!
I was reading the first metacognitive activity submitted by students in my intro course, prior to discussing it tomorrow. (I’ve decided to move that discussion outside of class time to avoid the potential problems I ran into last year. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in The Experiment
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Quick note on teaching my intro course
One of the ideas I explored this summer was the finding that students bring misconceptions into a course that need to be explicitly refuted if learning is to be transferable. It turns out that there is not that much known … Continue reading
Posted in The Experiment
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Is it a presentation or a paper? No, it’s a WordPress blog.
I just finished a presentation on teaching with social software at the Developments in Economics Education Conference held at Cambridge University. I actually drafted a paper for this conference, something I hadn’t managed for the last several presentations I had … Continue reading