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Confessions of a Bored Academic – Page 2 – Pushing the Boundaries & Exploring the Realities of Teaching in Higher Education
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Best Practices in Higher Education: Blogging. Confessions of a Bored Academic. Pushing the Boundaries and Exploring the Realities of Teaching in Higher Education. Revising in the Game (Class). September 19, 2016. September 7, 2016. Do you remember old school video games? When I was growing up, we had an Atari and arcades were loaded up with Pac-Man, Frogger, and Asteroids. Later, we graduated to a Nintendo and Super Mario Brothers. How I Got Here: An Example. What Connected Educators Do Differently.
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Unflattening | WilliamsAndMintOD
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Thursday's Corner with Dr Gary J Williams: book reviews and articles of interest! November 3, 2016. This book is an integrated written and visual experience. It is written as a comic book with words and drawings in support of each other, augmenting their ability to communicate challenging ideas. Sousanis uses the term unflattening to describe broadening our visual perspective and developing the ability to consider differing views simultaneously. Differences do not have to be arguments. They can b...Fill ...
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The Happy Kid Handbook | WilliamsAndMintOD
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Thursday's Corner with Dr Gary J Williams: book reviews and articles of interest! July 28, 2016. The Happy Kid Handbook. Having read many books on parenting, I tend to pick up new books with the attitude that the author needs to prove that this book is worth reading. Katie Hurley proves that through her experience of working with troubled children as a social worker tempered by the challenges and humility of being a parent. She writes from experience, not theory. If we control them from the very first mo...
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Thursday's Corner with Dr Gary J Williams: book reviews and articles of interest! March 9, 2017. March 8, 2017. A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America. Nortin M. Hadler, MD. The theme of this book is clearly stated on the first page; “We are becoming increasingly medicalized, made to think that all life’s challenges demand clinical intervention, when the science dictate’s otherwise”. p. 1. Continue reading →. March 3, 2017. The Gardener and the Carpenter: Part 5. March 3, 2017. March 2, 2017.
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Balanced and Barefoot | WilliamsAndMintOD
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Thursday's Corner with Dr Gary J Williams: book reviews and articles of interest! November 15, 2016. Angela J. Hanscom. While I advocate free outside play, I surprised myself when my first reaction to Angela Hanscom’s recommendation that children have three hours of free outside play a day was, that’s not going to happen . And yet that is how most of the parents of today’s children grew up and how almost all of their grandparents grew up. The inner core (muscles of the hips, spine, pelvic floor, and diap...
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Reclaiming Conversation | WilliamsAndMintOD
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Thursday's Corner with Dr Gary J Williams: book reviews and articles of interest! October 12, 2016. Conversation is becoming a lost art, particularly in the younger generations who primarily use electronic connections instead of face-to-face conversation. In Reclaiming Conversation. 8220;Reclaiming conversation begins with the acknowledgment that speaking and listening with attention are skills. They can be taught.” P. 14 A conversation, not just a chat, requires the availability of wor...I fear that we ...
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The End of Average | WilliamsAndMintOD
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Thursday's Corner with Dr Gary J Williams: book reviews and articles of interest! November 4, 2016. The End of Average. Before you read further, I encourage you to use the following link to watch a TED. Presentation by Todd Rose. Https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Augmenting the video, I found the following statements in the book to be the most thought-provoking. The hardest part of learning something new is not embracing new ideas, but letting go of old ones. The second is the context principle. When it...
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Vita – Confessions of a Bored Academic
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Best Practices in Higher Education: Blogging. Confessions of a Bored Academic. Pushing the Boundaries and Exploring the Realities of Teaching in Higher Education. Leigh A. Hall. Associate Professor of Literacy Studies. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC 27599. Confessions of a Bored Academic (blog). Focuses on my thinking about teaching in higher education. Stories written about issues in and around my research. Course blog written by students. Department of Teacher Education.
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Let Them Eat Dirt | WilliamsAndMintOD
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Thursday's Corner with Dr Gary J Williams: book reviews and articles of interest! November 22, 2016. Let Them Eat Dirt. Saving Your Child from an Oversanitized World. Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire Arrieta. While changing the microbiome in adults is more difficult, there are longitudinal studies which support the importance of nurturing a child’s microbiome in their early years and how this can be done. Microbes scare all of us, and rightly so since some of them are truly dangerous. However, only abou...
