Personal and Social Motivations for Students – Lessons from “Cognitive Surplus”
More thoughts on Clay Shirky’s new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age… In Chapter 2, Shirky described the …
Cognitive Surplus: Teaching in an Age of Abundance
I’m reading Clay Shirky’s new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. Shirky’s central argument is that people now …
Active Learning Approaches in Mathematics
A colleague recently asked me for some references on commonly used active learning approaches in teaching mathematics. I located a few useful …
Article: Webking & Valenzuela (2006): Clickers and Critical Thinking in Political Science
Reference: Webking, R., & Valenzuela, F. (2006). Using audience response systems to develop critical thinking. In Banks, David A. (Ed.), Audience Response …
Trying Out HootCourse, a Course Communication and Backchannel Tool
I spent some time yesterday playing around with HootCourse, a course communication and backchannel tool. A teacher can set up a course …
Coming Changes in the Industrial Model of Education?
Britt Watwood recently mentioned my “Revolution or Evolution?” presentation in a post discussing Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff’s 2008 book Groundswell. Britt …
Teaching Math with Clickers: Preservice Teachers, Competitive Students, & Visual Thinking
Continuing my reports from the contributed paper session on teaching with clickers I helped coordinate at the Joint Mathematics Meetings back in …
Teaching Math with Clickers: I Liked Getting the Wrong Answer Anonymously
Continuing my reports from the contributed paper session on teaching with clickers I helped coordinate at the Joint Mathematics Meetings back in …
New on ProfHacker: Motivating Students with Application Projects and Poster Sessions
I have another guest post on ProfHacker today: “Motivating Students with Application Projects and Poster Sessions.” Several years ago I started having …
Teaching Math with Clickers: Practice Question or Discovery Question?
Continuing my reports from the contributed paper session on teaching with clickers I helped coordinate at the Joint Mathematics Meetings back in …