Addicted to teaching
I finished the syllabus for my fall online class today—finding new hot-topic readings, changing the structure of assignments somewhat, eliminating the wiki, changing what the blog is used for, creating a different type of paper assignment, and adding a separate page for orienting students to discussion (leaving heavily on Brookfield and Preskill). Blackboard is now […]
Post-mortems, in real life
Some time ago, in one of the blogs on my ‘roll (I think Jenny D or Oh, Snap!), I read a bit about medical postmortems and a desire for such brutal honesty in education on where failures occur and what could be changed. (If you can point me to the blog in a comment, I’ll […]