Maybe I spend too much time viewing memes online – like many of my students, but the recent adverts for the Careers in Education presentation 2/19/14 at 11 am in Com 319 is too ironic to be an accident, isn’t…
responding to student questions part one
I play a game with students sometimes during the first week’s icebreakers. I invite any questions – including and especially “bad” questions. I answer some and evade a good measure of the rest. I’ve been thinking about that today. Perhaps…
On Educational Reforms and Revisions
No idea where it came from, but some version of this image has appeared in several education textbooks and on faculty bulletin boards.
Spontaneous Publicity
This is just the sort of spontaneous publicity that will get me noticed” Navin Johnson. introduction
Movie night: Nanking
Found a handful of movies on or about China in the JCCC library, and started with Nanking, a documentary with real footage and photos, and interviews with people – Chinese civilians and Japanese soldiers. Some serious actors read letters and…
on Education.
It may seem counter – intuitive to some, but more frequent assessment doesn’t automatically improve performance. As an old farmer used to say, weighing a cow more often doesn’t help fatten it up. The current fetish with testing has it’s…
The Transactional Model of Education
College had an IdeaScope thread where a staff member asked why students don’t value their education at JCCC as much as they should. The classes here are taught by experienced teachers, many of whom have PhD’s. The same classes at…
Respect my Authoritah!
I’ve been using ANGEL extensively for years, but the Ed Tech dept finally made an honest man out of me. I’m legit now, and this is the sort of spontaneous publicity, my name in print, that is going to take…
Campus Safety: Why We’re Moving in the Right Direction, and Why It Won’t Work.
I had a premonition that this year’s in-service would be about active shooters on campus just after Aurora. I’m glad we did and it heartens me that there seems to be a paradigm shift. Greg Crane…
Types of Professors
I enjoy taxonomies like this, and hope to engage a class in examining archetypes, stereotypes and the like and exploring why they, exist, what they mean, their use and shortcomings. Matt Groening in School is Hell may have done it…