Category: Teaching
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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…
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The zombie PowerPoint
While working through the ideas and content that are to be part of a new course, I casually asked the question as to how content was going to be presented to students. Along with several other media, PowerPoint came up. This did not surprise me until I realized that, like many other courses, .ppt has…
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Hybrid Learning – Single Stream
While I was looking for some resources as to what others have thought about hybrid learning, I found this short THE article. Now while this one also talks about hybrid learning as a single stream and using the online element as the major teaching motivator and the face to face as the scaffolding to frame…
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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…
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Right hand, meet left hand
When I was in London, riding the Tube from Westminster to Neasdon, I saw the headline for a story on one of the many papers that was littering the car as I was getting off “British Pupils do Better with Broadband”. I don’t know what the story was, but I can only assume that it…