Revolution or Evolution? Technology and Higher Ed
I’m on a committee charged by my university’s chancellor to explore how my university can use digital tools to enhance our teaching, …
Social Pedagogies: Motivating Students through Authentic Audiences
I led a workshop on social pedagogies, with a focus on social media tools that support such pedagogies, at Elon University this …
Using Clickers to Enhance Student Engagement
I’m giving a talk at Elon University this afternoon on teaching with clickers. You can see the Prezi for this talk below. …
Getting from Here to There, Part Two: The Right Scaffolding
In Michael Wesch’s latest blog post, “Why Good Classes Fail,” he argues that in the absence of empathy for one’s students, even …
Getting From Here to There: The Problem with Wildly Innovative Teaching
The Chronicle ran an interesting story this morning about Kansas State University cultural anthropology professor Michael Wesch titled “A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots …
Some Inspiration for Using Clickers in Medical Education
I led a workshop at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine earlier today on using clickers. Below you’ll find my Prezi. Although …
Bill the Jazz-Playing Accountant: A Classroom Experiment in #Math216
The other day, I described a couple of prediction questions I used in my stats course to create “times for telling” in …
Prediction Questions, Simulations, and Times for Telling in #Math216
Last Friday was the first day of a unit on probability in my statistics course. In order to motivate this unit, the …
Reading Quizzes, Clicker Questions, and Lurking Variables in #Math216
Here’s another clicker question from the statistics course I’m teaching this spring: Suppose an observational study indicates a positive association between the …
Clickers, Peer Instruction, and Classwide Discussion in #Math216
Recently, I blogged about my spring semester statistics course. Although the social bookmarking and pre-class reading assignments in the course are occupying …