Agile Learning

I’m giving a talk at Elon University this afternoon on teaching with clickers. You can see the Prezi for this talk below. Click on the forward arrow to advance through the visuals according to the path I’ve laid out. Or [...]

I’m on a committee charged by my university’s chancellor to explore how my university can use digital tools to enhance our teaching, research, and service missions. This afternoon the committee held its first meeting, and it’s clear to me that [...]

Here’s another clicker question from the statistics course I’m teaching this spring: Suppose an observational study indicates a positive association between the average global temperature and the National Science Foundation budget.  Which of the following are possible lurking variables in [...]

Yesterday’s Math 216 activity brought together several of my favorite teaching ideas: challenge cycles, visual thinking, and mobile learning. We’re starting our unit on descriptive statistics, which usually means finding averages and standard deviations and making boxplots and histograms. We’ll [...]