about 7 months ago - No comments
The second semester started a few weeks ago here at the school where I teach. One of the real frustrations for me has been watching the enrollment in my second semester classes bottom out — conversations with students suggest that they are making this decision based largely on graduation requirements (they don’t need my courses
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Nate Kogan, writing about his plans for “classroom 2.0″ collaborative writing assignments in his history classes in the coming year, notes student resistance to working collaboratively: While many students seem to dislike group work, I think the resistance stems more from the fear of being saddled with all the work by one’s potentially indolent group-mates
about 2 years ago - No comments
Having just bent my mind to thinking about some of the ramifications of changes in communication, I just came across this madly cool article on information visualization in the Christmas issue of the Economist (which, lets face it, is sort of like a double-issue of pornography for news-junkies). Related postsCompatibility, Forward and Reverse Using What
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
My first year teaching, a bright young thing just out of college, I spent the summer before-hand in a state of panic: I assumed that, having gotten a job teaching AP Computer Science, that I would now need to be an infallible expert in computer science. This level of pressure had me practically hyperventilating before
