Carnegie Perspectives: Building Pedagogical Intelligence It’s been eight years since I taught an (explicity) adult education course, so I’m spending quite a bit of time reviewing the literature and trying to find an appropriate framework for the class I’m teaching this fall. In the past I’ve always taught as part of a specialized graduate program,…
Month: June 2006
What’s Being Done In Other Places
.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Ostrich egg, originally uploaded by Dr Hotdog. In a small town in Vermont where I grew up there’s a story about a farmer who set an ostrich egg on a…
Even Higher Education
Back to College I generally avoid reading the AARP magazine–which I guess is the successor to Modern Maturity. As Tom Paxton wrote: So when you find it in your mailbox for the first time my friend You can tell that you getting older, you’re turning grey…. Modern Maturity, means you’re getting old When you get…
Penn Requires Blogs–Sort of.
Inside Higher Ed :: An Academic Blog for Students The university of Pennsylvania reportedly will require all incoming freshman to “keep blogs” of their academic progress, though I’m sure many in the blogosphere will have serious issues with the use of the term. New students will complete online journal entries that will focus on their…
Sharing the Sense of Wonder in the Classroom
Gardner Writes » Blog Archive » Surprised by YouTube Gardner writes about his experience with students in his film studies class finding an illustration for a critical essay–on YouTube. As usual, Dr. Glu extracts some important lessons for himself and his colleagues. As the information abundance spreads, and if we are brave and curious enough…