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Narrating Our Learning
While I do intend to return to blogging, I’m getting caught up in vlogging at the moment. I’ll be sure to add words soon. If you’re interested in what you see and hear, join the conversation on...
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Teaching about teaching
One way to achieve effective, evidence-based teaching and learning in higher education is train the next generation of university faculty, today’s graduate students. Then, year after year, a new wave...
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openness
The Dispossessed describes events on a alien moon and planet, the former occupied by banished anarchists, and the later inhabited by several Earth-like societies. The desert moon is rife with survival...
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The Ups and Downs of Interpreting Graphs
Here’s a graph showing some guy’s position as he’s out for a walk: This graph shows the position of some guy out for a walk. Can you tell what he’s doing? Take a moment and describe in your own words...
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Do you remember the first time you taught online? What have you learned about online teaching since that first experience, and how have these lessons shaped the way you teach today? Engaging in...
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Preparing for 2 sections of the same class
More grad students and postdocs want to take the course we teach at UCSD about teaching and learning in higher education, The College Classroom, than we can accommodate. This Quarter, we accepted 40...
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Meta-blog-nition
“Cognition” is another word for “thinking”. Metacognition, then, is thinking about your own thinking. Cynthia Brame at Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching has this terrific quote by John Flavell in her...
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Any Questions?
(Image shared by db Photography on flicker CC-BY) In the terrific book, How People Learn, [1] the authors describe 3 key findings about how people learn, what teachers should do with those findings,...
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