Yet another business person on the importance of writing “correctly” to hiring and working in the real world published in the Harvard Business Review. I tell students every year the LJW and the KC Star post similar letters from business…
On Success
Just finished conferences this week. I can’t stress enough how important it is for students to drop by their teacher’s office if they want help. In College A students go to their teachers office, though in high school maybe only…
Terrible Teacher (meme): perhaps misunderstood?
I have mixed feelings about the new “Terrible Teacher” meme. It’s really hard not to say some of these things. Sometimes turning a question back to a student is good andragogy (the word pedagogy should only be applied to…
Teaching
What is teaching? Why does it matter? How should it be done?
The problem with a social D
A report currently excerpted on Doonesbury in the “say what” (a kinda WTF quote of the day) states: The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47% of adults (more than 200,000 individuals) in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate,…
Learning Management Systems (LMS)
It’s important to clarify a distinction between LMS ( such as ANGEL)and Web 2.0 tools. LMS “use a top-down approach; blogs tend to go in the other direction. LMS offer a great deal of flexibility and the potential for creativity…
Worth the Read: Applied Andragogy
A powerful piece at NPR makes some salient points about education, in the form of a Literacy Narrative. It tells the story of a “terrible” man who may have been an excellent English teacher – and highlights the difference between…
Academic integrity and plagiarism
Lot in the news now about the moral depravity of students as evidenced by “cheating.” The Philosophy Monkey treats it well. I like that he makes a point that instructors aren’t as stupid as student’s might think (with a video…
corporal punishment
Photo courtesy of The Laughing Squid. I see Kansas represents in the negative reinforcement (and Missouri – click to enlarge image – we are next to Kentucky). So let me get this clear, it’s legal to hit students in Kansas?…
audience and voice: this blog
Just checked google analytics to see how much traffic this blog gets and from where. Interestingly, the summer has seen an increase in traffic, and though we’ve always gotten a strong following from Alaska – China has come on lately…