Tag: Teaching

  • Common Craft and Teaching

    Common Craft is a great site for figuring out what the basic message is that you need to take home about this that or the other thing. They posted a “what they learned in 2007” list this past month, and I’m thinking that it is something that is very similar to what you need to…

  • For your College Crew

    I came across “Big Think” as a YouTube like resource recently and watching this video, right around 1:00 to 1:42, Steve Pinker mentions one of the best ways to write about science, and indeed, perhaps how to teach it as well. Essentially, treat your audience as a colleague who is just as smart as you…

  • A vision of Students

    This video certainly presents an interesting thought – what is even more interesting are the comments. People thinking that the students are whining, that the profs are too lazy and that nothing works or will ever change. I think the place that we have to make the change is to allow students to have fewer…