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Asking Questions redux (part deux)
Having talked about today’s class in the previous post, I thought I’d write about what I’m going to do tomorrow as follow-up. I’ll start with a two-question survey sometimes used in large college lecture courses (that I’ve occasionally used in … Continue reading
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The best way to predict the future
is to invent it. Great title from an article I haven’t even read yet, but I definitely agree with the sentiment. And given the nostalgia that’s been generated today as I clean out old files, scan in old student papers … Continue reading
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Creativity Then and Now…
from a follow-up email with my colleague) My considered, but not researched, judgment is that there is at least as much creativity now as when we were kids, but it’s expressed in many more ways. There are still people who … Continue reading
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Tools vs Apps
A colleague pointed out the following quote to me from a blog he follows, basically saying in his email that he was afraid the writer is correct. “I wonder if the ‘app-ification’ of computing is turning out to be the … Continue reading
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Some go up and some go down?
A response to the question posed in the previous post: We had a brief moment when we were moving toward social literacy in computing. At St. John’s, it occurred thirty years ago, and I remember it clearly because it was … Continue reading
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Dumbing down?
Here’s an email from a colleague that got me thinking about “people as a tool-using species.” My response follows in the next post. —————————– This is an interesting blog post. The full article referenced is here. This came to me from an … Continue reading
The video generation?
I keep reading in the educational press and occasionally hearing from colleagues about how “this generation” of students lives and breathes video and that if we want to hit them where they live (as it were), we need to treat … Continue reading
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ISAS Day 1
It was good to see colleagues from other schools whom I get to see only too rarely these days. It was also interesting to hear so many of my basic principles of teaching from the last many years affirmed by … Continue reading
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Technology: skill or tool?
An interesting post from Jeff Utecht, which is relevant to a point I made in my previous post. I particularly like his Skills tied to specific tools do not need to be taught. I agree. You don’t need to teach … Continue reading
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Cum grano salis
One of the things my Latin II class provided was a list of pithy sayings we had to memorize. Some I’d never heard of at the tender age of 13, but I still remember a few, and one of them … Continue reading →