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Category Archives: Future posts
Perspective shift
So, a great deal of thought and blogspace, even time at conferences, goes into such topics as “PBL” (problem-based learning), “STEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics”, and “21st-century learning” (which is either self-evident or means so many different things to … Continue reading
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American Literature: 4 Questions
I am probably going to be teaching a section of American Literature next year, which has caused me to ponder what I should teach and why. For years, various people have urged that an American Studies course, wherein American history … Continue reading
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The Library of Babel
I gave my English students a choice of questions (some of which, ones that they generated yesterday) on which to write after their discussion of Borges’s The Library of Babel yesterday and a preliminary discussion last week. As is sometimes … Continue reading
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Learning from failure
The NYT had an interesting article on failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?src=me&ref=general Here is my basic response. I hope to have time to elaborate on this later. There are many kinds of failure in many arenas of life. Some are terminal (of course, … Continue reading
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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….
Future posts
Below are short, sometimes deliberately provocative, lines that will eventually be expanded to posts. Feel free to comment or write your own with the quote as your starting point. “There’s no such thing as teaching” “Our strengths are our weaknesses” … Continue reading
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