For those who are about to face a mounting pile of end of semester papers, check out this article on a potential way to speed up the process. Since I haven’t yet faced that challenge, I’d love to hear any … Continue reading
As this class winds down to an end, I find myself struggling with what to do with all of the information that I’ve gathered. I don’t teach currently, won’t teach during my tenure at Virginia Tech, won’t begin a PhD … Continue reading
The recent bomb threats at the University of Pittsburgh combined with the passing of April 16th have caused me to wonder about how you can continue to have a healthy learning environment in the midst of fear. In the past, … Continue reading
As part of the Communicating Science course that I’m currently enrolled in we’ve been doing a lot of… well, improv exercises I suppose you could call them. Activities designed to have a variety of purposes, but that almost uniformly involve … Continue reading
Stumbled upon this unfortunate blog/discussion of Teach for America. I’ve heard rumblings of things like this in the past but never something so explicit. The title of the author’s book, “Learning on Other People’s Kids” highlights the main problem with … Continue reading