Teaching with Digital Timelines
Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching blog. This year the Center for Teaching hosted a few educational technology working groups …
Class Time Reconsidered: Flipping the Literature Class
You know about the flipped classroom, right? That thing where you take what you used to do during class (say, lecture) and …
One-Best-Answer Questions: Clickers, Critical Thinking, and Legal Education
The other week I blogged about one of the educational technology working groups the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching is hosting this year. …
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 …
Twitter’s Brush with Death
You might have missed it, but over the weekend, Twitter died. Indeed, the #RIPTwitter hashtag was trending worldwide. (I’ll let others ponder …
Playing the Odds: Putting Powerball in Perspective
Today’s fun math fact, in honor of the largest Powerball lottery jackpot ever: If you have to drive more than a third …
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 …
In Defense of Continuous Exposition by the Teacher
The New York Times published an essay this weekend by education writer Annie Murphy Paul titled “Are College Lectures Unfair?” In the …
Thinking about Think-Pair-Share
I’ve had Think-Pair-Share on my mind for a while now. I believe it started back in the spring, when I was invited …