Monthly Archives: January 2011

VQ

The real question from my colleague’s observation about students’ learning more in images and sound bites than the way they’re being taught is what the implications of such an observation for a teacher of a non-communications or non-performance-oriented course are….

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Questions

(What follows is the text–more or less, since it was a speech and hence had improvised comments–of a talk I gave in Middle School Chapel today.) In spite of that wonderful introduction, most of you have no idea who I … Continue reading

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Video gen?

One of my colleagues said that an innovative course he’d taught recently led to his learning as much as the students, and one of those lessons was that “students present themselves in images and [sound-]bites, not words–they are learning differently … Continue reading

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Creativity

The head of the math department asked us to write about “creativity in the classroom,” presumably creativity both that we as teachers demonstrated and opportunities for our students to be creative.  It was an interesting exercise, though, and I thought … Continue reading

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