How Does the Fourth Season of a Course Podcast Work?
Asking my first-year writing students to create short audio pieces in lieu of written essays was a bit of a gamble the …
Mastery Quizzes for Mastery Learning
This past spring, I made a number of changes to my first-year writing seminar on the history and mathematics of cryptography. Some …
Asynchronous Active Learning with Perusall
After spending most of 2020 helping faculty and other instructors prepare to teach in online and hybrid contexts, I had the chance …
Building a Better Podcast Assignment
I’m excited to share that my cryptography students and I will launch the third season of our class podcast, One-Time Pod, this …
Students as (Podcast) Producers
One of the themes we build into much of our work at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching is the notion of engaging …
Apple vs. the FBI: Critical Thinking in a First-Year Seminar
Earlier this week a federal judge ordered Apple to comply with an FBI request to assist in unlocking an iPhone owned by …
Timelines, EdTech, and Thin Slices of Student Learning
This year the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching is hosting a few educational technology working groups for faculty, staff, and students interested in …
In-Class Collaborative Debate Mapping, or How a Mathematician Teaches a Novel
I’m teaching my cryptography seminar again this fall. As a first-year writing seminar in mathematics, it’s an unusual course. It has some …
Leveraging Student Interests through Social Bookmarking
Back in 2012, I wrote a few posts for the CIRTL Network on teaching with technology. Some of the technologies mentioned have …
Teaching Cryptography, Writing History
Cross-posted from Wonders & Marvels. When you teach mathematics, it’s not every semester that a major motion picture is released that’s squarely …