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Category Archives: tech
What you know is… who you are? or irrelevant?
I was having dinner with a couple of alums the other night, seeking feedback on my teaching (more on the question of my methods, general approach, and philosophy than course content). We got into a discussion of different teaching styles … Continue reading
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Changing memory
I read an interesting article on the internet’s effects on our memory. Not surprising, really, but nice to see it looked at rather than just speculated upon. It turns out that people who know they can look something up when … Continue reading
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Getting down to basics
During a long conversation with Jeff Ritter and Lori MacConnell at lunch yesterday, I discovered a number of interesting things. One of them was a clearer articulation of what I’m trying to do in my teaching, no matter what the … Continue reading
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NT–“new technologies”
Probably the most important question facing teachers of English/Language Arts right now is to what extent they should incorporate “new technologies” into their courses. SJS graduates have reported (literally for decades) that the two areas in which they are generally … Continue reading
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….
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