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Category Archives: Teaching and Learning
Hosting Another Faculty Conversation
About a month ago I mentioned that I was participating in our school’s new first year seminar program next year. In that post I asked for help designing a digital environment to support my seminar. We took the first step … Continue reading
Fascinating Discussion on Why People Blog or Not
I’ve been following a fascinating discussion on why people blog and why other’s have difficulty doing so. The place to start is Will Richardson’s initial post, but I also highly recommend Chris Sessums’ post as well as the comments there. … Continue reading
Academic Podcasting at GCSU
The New York Times recently published a very thoughtful article on academic uses of podcasting at Georgia College & State University, the liberal arts institution in the Georgia state system of higher education. This is a registration-required site, but the … Continue reading
Maryellen Weimer on Teaching that Promotes Learning
Maryellen Weimer gave a presentation at UMW today based on her book, Learning-Centered Teaching. Her thesis: In order for teaching to more effectively promote learning, instructional practice needs to change in five areas: 1. The Role of the Teacher. Instruction … Continue reading
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Martha Burtis on Education as Process
One of the key questions that keeping coming up in my exploration of University 2.0 is what is education, or more precisely, what is higher education? I know we’ve all considered that question, but from time to time there’s there’s … Continue reading
At the Risk of Possibly Over-Analyzing
Today I had two miserable sections of my experimental principles course, the worst I can remember this semester. The majority of students didn’t seem to remember anything from last week. They looked at me dumbly for most of the class. … Continue reading
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How to host a faculty conversation?
Here’s a question that may have an easy answer, but I’ve only thought about it for about two days, and I figured someone may have already done this. Suppose a group of faculty wished to participate in an extended “conversation” … Continue reading
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More on The Problem
Gardner thoughtfully and persuasively responded to my earlier comment on his rejoinder to my diagnosis of reasons behind faculty aversion to risk taking. This is a further comment, which I’m posting here because I’m not sure how to include a … Continue reading
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Belated Reponse to Gardner
The previous posting, on fear of risktaking by teachers, reminded me that I had meant to get back to Gardner’s response to my post. (Are you confused yet?) Gardner wrote: [W]hat if the problem is not that people aren’t thinking … Continue reading
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More Reflections on Fear of Risktaking
A couple of weeks ago, I contributed to a discussion of why it’s so hard for teachers to take the risk to change their way of teaching. Barbara Ganley just provided her own very thoughtful contribution to this subject. Barbara … Continue reading
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