If we can reach out to our students with early communications, we can better match what’s promised with and necessary for a productive first day of class.
Source: How Student Learning Can Begin before the First Day of Class
Tag Archives: Pedagogy
Up to No Good – EIDOLON
The Dreadful Pedagogy of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry
Yet for all the talk about the pedagogical value of the books, we say little about the pedagogy in the books.
Source: Up to No Good – EIDOLON
What Should I Do When a Student Cheats?
Learn a more effective approach to mitigating student cheating and discover a more effective model for promoting academic integrity.
Does the Strategy Work? A Look at Exam Wrappers
There’s a lot more complexity than meets the eye with almost every instructional strategy. This article looks at the effectiveness of exam wrappers.
The Failure of Feedback
“Vague.” “Good job.” These types of comments that we write on students’ papers are of little value to the student. What was vague? What was good?
Source: The Failure of Feedback
What Is Critical Thinking, Anyway? | Vitae
A long-time faculty member shares the talk he gives to his own students on the first day of the semester.
How long can it take to write a paragraph? – TheTLS
Answer: in my case recently about three days, or — more accurately — about three days of repeatedly getting a few lines down on the screen, then either deleting them or transferring them to a separate document rather sweetly entitled ‘bits and pieces’ and starting all over again. Writing is a rum trade. Sometimes it proceeds …
