Teaching

This article of mine appeared in the journal Liberal Education, vol. 93, no. 4, Fall 2007, p. 52-56 and garnered a huge response in the educational community. Death to the Syllabus! {AD}

How do you learn? What kind of teaching is most effective for your learning? Answering the first question matters more than the second, because you can - an...

In this hour long webinar, Drs. Daryl Chow and Scott D. Miller review three steps for using deliberate practice to improve your therapeutic effectiveness. Midway during the recording, they address questions from the participants who joined the webinar live on May 16, 2022.

I learned how to ride a reverse steering bike, by riding it exclusively for two weeks. Here are the results. As a freestyle bmxer I had similar experience with the steering when rolling backward, so that helped. I think rather than over writing old neuro pathways my brain had to disassociate the familiar pathways with the experience, create new ones and apply them to the similar but variant conditions of the reverse steering bike. Fun. Grateful for the experience to learn to ride a all over bike again.

An engineer explores learning to ride a bike that has been modified in a simple way.

Many students have had little experience working in groups in an academic setting. While there are many excellent books and articles describing group processes, this guide is intended to be short and simply written for students who are working in groups, but who may not be very interested in too much detail. It also provides teachers (and students) with tips on assigning group projects, ways to organize groups, and what to do when the process goes awry. Some reasons to ask students to work in groups

AAC&U’s Teaching-Learning-Assessment (TLA) Framework is a web-based tool developed to help campuses build capacity and lead institutional transformation to Ensure Students Are Learning, as part of the Guided Pathways model for student success.

Ok, I have some thoughts on this. Here's a short thread. 🧵 https://t.co/3n8fey4Qp7— Dr. Carly M. Lesoski 🏳️‍🌈😷 (@motheroftheses) July 7, 2022

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“This clip of Barak Rosenshine talking about 'higher order thinking skills' is one of the single most important things for teachers to know about learning.”

Academic posters should keep pace with science, not trail behind! It’s time to upgrade and create beautiful and effective academic posters in PowerPoint.

“#OpenEducation friends - are they any #OpenTextbooks that you think are exemplars of diversity and inclusion, and why? #OER”

Words to energize, inspire, and challenge us

An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education.

Virtual escape rooms incorporate riddles, puzzles, math, logic, and literacy skills to create an exciting adventure in education.

By Angelina Latin, Published on 02/14/22

Presenting today with 3 wonderful colleagues on the topic of Artificial Intelligence and academic Integrity

A new study says college students may prefer the flexibility of hybrid classes—but that doesn’t mean they want to leave campus. Holly Burns, for ...

When given a choice, do students prefer in-person classes?

Cheating is not a technological problem, but a social and pedagogical problem. Technology is often blamed for creating the conditions in which cheating proliferates and is then offered as the solution to the problem it created; both claims are false.

“This is my new keynote trick, learned from Zoom. What I like is people will often say, I have a question sort of related to question 3 on your slide there.”

Grading is simply the default. Why?

“[ disability classroom megathread 💛🧵] this winter i taught an upper-level course in Disability Policy @ UWO. for beloved community, i made all course lectures & materials FREE online so anyone can take my course! syllabus + thread of EVERY class: https://t.co/vIVtuBaN2t”

We need to teach students how to assess their professors without bias, writes Bryan A. Banks, who asks students to devise their own rubrics for evaluating his teaching.