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Time and pacing
This afternoon, I’m trying to finish as many short student papers as I can. Around Labor Day, when the second of four hurricanes hit Florida, I realized I had to start pacing myself for the duration of the term. Then two other hurricanes hit. Yikes. That pace became grueling, as I spent hours each week […]
Teaching models
This morning, the New York Times has an article by Richard Panek on new teaching models, primarily the Program in Course Redesign at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Academic Transformation. I haven’t seen the reports at all (something else to do in my copious free time!), but the article jibes with my sense of teaching: […]
The cognitive blogroll
After setting up my Bloglines blogroll last week, I had this startling thought about RSS aggregators like Bloglines, niche (and partisan) media outlets like Fox News, and selective “hearing” that students occasionally engage in when reading: part of the freedom to pick and choose what is convincing—and select one’s sources for reading (or believing)—is the […]
Remote-control teaching
I’m considering letting students have remote controls in class next semester.
What students know (or think they do)
This semester is my first teaching one of the frosh courses in USF’s Honors College, and I enjoyed meeting my students this morning, though there was one disconcerting minute or two, when I was trying to encourage discussion of real-life high-stakes examples of trying to discern truth. (The course, titled “Acquisition of Knowledge,” is really […]