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Category: Teaching

  • Tweaching

    This question came up over the last week that I’ve been working on a poster for an upcoming symposium – how you ever convince students to follow their prof on Twitter or any of the other microblogging services? My answer to this was a non committal – I don’t know, first we have to convince…

  • Crayon Physics

    One of the things that I enjoyed when taking physics courses was drawing the little diagrams to help explain the problem that I was trying to solve. This is a technique that is good for all manner of disciplines, but it seems to have been adopted best by Physics. So when I saw this game,…

  • Anti-teaching

    I haven’t heard it called this, but working toward question generation and self relevance is certainly a great idea.

  • Don Tapscott on millenials as information streamers

    The lecture is becoming defunct… it’s a bad model of pedagogy – [the empty vessel idea] is a bad way of learning, we need a more sophiticated model… a hyperlinked stream of information is where we are going. Donald’s book, Growing Up Digital has certainly ruffled a few feathers and a couple weeks ago he…

  • Growing up Gaming

    Let’s start with this: There is an interesting message here, there are likely many people out there who think like this – people for whom the ideas from the Matrix are not really that far fetched. But the take home message is that we have come to a point that games have matured to a…