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Category: Teaching

  • Is this how we get people to love learning?

    It’s back to school for most people this week and between all the stories of what has been done to limit the students ability to really be themselves. In some schools, there are dress codes that limit or eliminate hoodies, backbacks and cargo pants – because of security – cell phones – god only knows…

  • The Digital Socrate

    The Socratic method uses questions to examine the values, principles, and beliefs of students. The Socratic method focuses on moral education, on how one ought to live. The Socratic method demands a classroom environment characterized by “productive discomfort.” The Socratic method is better used to demonstrate complexity, difficulty, and uncertainty than at eliciting facts about…

  • Plagiarism or collaboration

    Sometimes I wonder if there is any way to really differentiate these terms as there as some people who think that even being in the same room as someone else working on the same project would constitute plagiarism. I have some personal experience with this as in my first undergrad a prof who told the…

  • Systematizing Play

    One of the assignments that I gave to my students when I was teaching my grad class was to take a look at what games actually taught them and map a lesson to a game, using the ladder as an analogy or scaffold. So when I saw this post, I was stoked – someone else…

  • Do from Don’t

    Via EdTech, I found an interesting way to look at the whole online safety thing – inline with what I wrote about protecting one’s self and image from being “remixed” for nefarious uses – focus on the what should be done and not what shouldn’t be done, starting with what you want people to find…