Archive for January, 2007
Small pieces, loosely joined
UMW reports on how they developed a toolbox for first year students that would encourage them to take control of their learning, see college as something more and different form “13th grade.” Learning is all about making connections and social softwares allow this in amazing ways. Their criteria was: web-based abd “RSSy” (aggregatable) […]
Read More..>>is “Passive Learning” an oxymoron?
University of Dayton presents on Learning spaces at ELI 2007. Early on in the talk, David Wright made this comment about pasive learning, and I was instantly intrigued. He went on to show MRI images of brains in action. The brain is the REAL learning space. Our job is to get more […]
Read More..>>advice for lecturers
Sometimes Faculty Developers get a bad rap for being anti-lecture. I am not against all lecturing; I am against boring lectures! This blog has some well written and wise advice for making presentations. And really, aren’t lectures presentations? I hear echoes in this list of advice from one of UR’s great professors–Joe Hoyle
Still, the […]
Play
Play is a perpetual motion machine that generates and uses energy simultaneously and about equally, at least until we get to what Emily Dickinson calls “The manner of the children, who weary of the day, / Themselves the noisy playthings they cannot put away.â€
Gardner recently ended a post with this comment and it has been […]