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EdTechBlog2013: April 2013
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Friday, April 26, 2013. I'll take a painting class. No sudden breaks or accelerations. Just something easy. Http:/ www.flickr.com/photos/roguepoet/2742089912/. Thursday, April 18, 2013. Finest of Work Songs. Three things happened this week that made me reflect on how crazy my teaching career has become, and how totally unprepared I was/am for what's next. This post is a combination of many ideas that I've been thinking about- don't judge me on smooth transitions or lack of coherence. I think a lot of tea...
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The Subject Matter & Writing Skills Balance Walk « Collateral Growth
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Teaching, Assessing, and Learning in a Two-Year College. The Subject Matter and Writing Skills Balance Walk. Writing instructors are in a tricky position. Here’s why: when teaching with a theme (e.g. the “ Sports and the Meaning of Life. I want to return to the problem of the split between subject matter and writing skills stuff though. The main problem with the split is that it ruins the course’s coherence. Ideally, the subject matter stuff should be meaningfully entwined with the writing skills stuff&#...
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Chapter Five of Why Don’t Students Like School? « Collateral Growth
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Teaching, Assessing, and Learning in a Two-Year College. Chapter Five of Why Don’t Students Like School? My topic for this post is Chapter 5 of Daniel Willingham’s. Entitled Is Drilling Worth It? The most mundane of chapters. Yet fascinating in its own right. Let’s face a teaching fact: we can’t escape sometimes having to deposit knowledge into our students’ craniums, old-school style. Even here at Cascadia with our emphasis on interactive and collaborative learning. Holding several ideas/pieces of knowl...
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Chapter Four of Why Don’t Students Like School? « Collateral Growth
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Teaching, Assessing, and Learning in a Two-Year College. Chapter Four of Why Don’t Students Like School? Pardon my own abstraction is this post. My notes were incomplete! I had to return the book to the library – it’s in high demand! My topic for this post is Chapter 4 of Daniel Willingham’s. Entitled Why is it so hard for students to remember abstract ideas? The simple answer: our minds evolved and prefer to think concretely, instead of abstractly. 67, emphasis mine). Willingham readers will already be ...
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The Interval before the Terminators Invade … « Collateral Growth
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Teaching, Assessing, and Learning in a Two-Year College. The Interval before the Terminators Invade …. Enter the Interact Learning Online (ILO) phase of life on the planet. A piece from Inside Higher Education. Provides some context from a recent survey. To instantly see weakness patterns. However, I saw that students had difficulty transferring knowledge and experiences gained in the exercise sets to more meaningful and enriched learning activities. After reading chapter 4. Click to share on Tumblr (Ope...
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The Terminator Cometh … « Collateral Growth
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Teaching, Assessing, and Learning in a Two-Year College. The Terminator Cometh …. Yes, the terminator cometh in the form of robo-graders! Had a short piece. However, the terminator gets closer to us in higher ed. Trust me, just give programmers and designers about 5 years to get this thing worked out. Do not underestimate the power of the algorithm! So I wonder what the higher ed. English composition class experience will look like in 5-10 years? Put simply, I think it’s naive and dangerous for us ...
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Collateral Growth « Teaching, Assessing, and Learning in a Two-Year College « Page 2
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Teaching, Assessing, and Learning in a Two-Year College. Newer posts →. Since ENGL 102 (“Composition II”) is basically a research and writing class, my students are working through Bruce Ballenger. The Curious Researcher (7th Edition). 8211; perhaps my favorite writing-type textbook of all time. So readable, so many good examples, so many good exercises. And so. Written by Ballenger. The thing reads like a personal narrative in spots. And this is one of Ballenger’s points: to make research. It implies an...
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Doin’ the Group Work Boogie « Collateral Growth
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Teaching, Assessing, and Learning in a Two-Year College. Doin’ the Group Work Boogie. One my of tenure goals is to develop deeper knowledge and praxis about collaborative smallgroup work in the classroom. Collaborative groupwork is a Cascadian hallmark, embeded into the college’s main learning outcomes. Which is largely stated in our “Interact” outcome:. Interact in diverse and complex environments. Build interpersonal skills through knowledge of diverse ideas, values, and perspectives. However, I design...
