Posted in College, Education, Students, Teaching on Oct 30th, 2007 416 Comments »
We’re in the midst of week ten of a sixteen week semester, and last week was midterm time, so over the weekend, the last significant wave of drops took place.
For the better part of yesterday, I had the feeling I was teaching at the Twilight Zone’s main campus.
Several of the students in my classes this [...]
Posted in Argument, College, Education, Students on Oct 26th, 2007 73 Comments »
I have a hard time reconciling where I stand when it comes to technology in education, and I blame my students.
I see the benefits of many technological advances; however, much of the positive is outweighed by students’ failing to take appropriate advantage of the tools at their disposal.
Here are a few examples:
E-mail:
When I was in [...]
Posted in Education, Politics, Students, Teaching on Oct 23rd, 2007 64 Comments »
Back in the beginning of October, Christina Mallon, a teacher at Williams Field High School in Gilbert, Arizona, was placed on paid administrative leave for performing a cheerleading routine during one of her classes.
The performance was captured by a student on his camera phone video recorder, and the student subsequently uploaded the video to YouTube. [...]
Posted in Education, Research, Writing on Oct 15th, 2007 56 Comments »
Welcome to my contribution to Blog Action Day!
What’s it about?
On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone [...]