Welcome to this week's Week in Review! If you have your own link or suggestion, please add it to the comments, or email it to Tom or Mike. From Tom 1. Another piece to throw into our technology conversation: How about teaching naked, i.e., sans machines? Do you agree with José A. Bowen, dean of Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts, in his comments regarding the quality of classroom powerpoint instruction and the rise of on-line classes to replace such offerings? Note: The video … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Shop Class, Teaching Naked
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Week in Review
Welcome to this week's Week in Review! If you have your own link or suggestion, please add it to the comments, or email it to Tom or Mike. From Tom Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance (Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, 6/29/2009). Do you agree with T. Mills Kelly, an associate professor of history and associate director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, who argues professors are shifting their on-line communication from e-mail … [Read more...] about Week in Review
Week in Review – gao kao, google books, and more!
This week's Week in Review explores Google's Book Search, China's gao kao ("high test"), a call for papers on mentoring, and an article about linguistics and dying languages. If you'd like to contribute to next week's Review, add your link(s) in the comments, or send them to Tom or Mike directly. From Tom Adam Smith: What's Next for Google Book Search? (Chronicle of Higher Education, 06/12/09): Do you use Google Books to take a preview and/or search materials? Is your institution partnering with Google Book … [Read more...] about Week in Review – gao kao, google books, and more!
Week in Review – Summer Reflections on Education, the Outdoors, and the Mind
This week's Week in Review includes possible ways to address the shortfall of America's schools, to keep pace with textbook technology, to enjoy the outdoors through reading, and more! If you'd like to contribute to next week's Review, add your link(s) in the comments, or send them to Tom or Mike directly. From Tom Five Ways to Fix America's Schools (Harold O. Levy, NY Times Op-Ed, 06/08/2009): Any comments and/or recommendations? The biggest improvement we can make in higher education is to produce more … [Read more...] about Week in Review – Summer Reflections on Education, the Outdoors, and the Mind
Who is in your class?
Would you agree with my idealistic enthusiasm for My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, the story of a professor of anthropology at a large state university who realized that she no longer understood the behavior and attitudes of her students and returned to the classroom? And my uneasiness when reading that some "Online Professors Pose as Students to Encourage Real Learning" (Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/29/09), in the class which they're teaching? Can you offer testimonies, … [Read more...] about Who is in your class?