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Category Archives: Teaching and Learning
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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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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