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Category Archives: Teaching and Learning
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
Posted in The Experiment
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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
Posted in First Year Seminar
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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
First Meta Discussion of the Term
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about my experimental intro course. I admit I’ve been preoccupied with the first year seminar, but now I have something to talk about in the former. Friday we discussed the first abstract metacognitive … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching and Learning, The Experiment
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ePortfolios?
I just finished reading Matt Vilano’s article on ePortfolios in the September issue of Campus Technology. I’ve been intrigued by the notion of ePortfolios for some time now, but I’ve never really taken the time to understand them. I may … Continue reading
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Response to Bob
Bob raised an important question on one of my previous postings that demands a response. He asked: What has happened to instruction in the material that the course is supposed to be about–namely, globalization? My purpose in teaching this course … Continue reading
Posted in First Year Seminar, University 2.0
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Liftoff in the Seminar?
Today we conducted the third in our series of tech tools sessions, this one introducing students to flickr. After getting students registered, we (and by “we” I mean Martha and Jerry) showed the students how to locate photos tagged with … Continue reading