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Category Archives: BigWiki
Postmortem on my experiments with teaching this year.
At the end of the school year, about a month ago, I was pretty unhappy with my teaching experiments this year. In my intro course, the metacognition experiment didn’t seem to go very well this year. Part of it was … Continue reading
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Reflections on the BigWiki Experiment
[This is the first of several reflections I wrote during the semester, but waited until it was over to post, since I didn’t want my blog reflections to influence student behavior.] After 2/3 of the semester, I’ve concluded that the … Continue reading
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Survey Results from the Macro Course
Several weeks into the semester, I was explaining the function of the wiki to my colleagues in the TIP Seminar after which they raised some sceptical questions: How could I be sure that the macro students were not merely going … Continue reading
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This is not your teacher’s university course
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A Purer Version of Just-in-Time Teaching
Yesterday I set my alarm a little early to have enough time first thing in the morning to collect and sort the questions for Chapter 6. This was the first chapter that was beyond introductory material, so I wanted to … Continue reading
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Be Careful What You Ask For
The dynamics of my macroeconomics course are quite different than in past years. I’ve alluded to this in previous posts. For one thing, I’m reading the text just slightly ahead of the students. I’m doing it that way to try … Continue reading
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Vetting the Product
Last week I observed that in my U2.0 teaching I haven’t been doing enough quality control. I’ve been changing the process of teaching/learning in my classes, but haven’t been vetting the product enough. I’ve been working to improve that recently. … Continue reading
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First JIT Session
Yesterday was the first JIT day for the intermediate macro class. As I noted in an earlier post, the plan called for students to read the chapter and submit an analysis of the content including a summary of the main … Continue reading
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Just in Time Teaching with a Large Wiki
A few weeks ago I mentioned my idea for a very different approach to teaching ECON 304, my intermediate macro course. This is the first week of classes, so I guess I better figure out how this is going to … Continue reading