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Category Archives: Pedagogy

The ProfHacker Week in Review

March 14, 2010 in Life, Pedagogy, Productivity by Jason B. Jones

ProfHacker’s traditionally late wrap-up of the week’s posts. This week with extra pi.

Weekend Reading, Still (!) Not Spring Break Edition

March 12, 2010 in Life, Pedagogy, Productivity by Jason B. Jones

ProfHacker eases you into the weekend with 5 links worth reading, plus a video.

Digital Natives? Naive!

March 9, 2010 in Pedagogy by George H. Williams

We’re seeing increasing levels of skepticism about the idea that the generation who came of age surrounded by digital tools are fundamentally different than older generations in the way they think, learn, communicate, and express themselves.

Creating Workshops for Students and Faculty

March 9, 2010 in Pedagogy by Alex Jarvis

In January, I accepted a co-op position at Central Connecticut State University in our campus’ Instructional Technology Design and Resource Center. The plan was simple; figure out a way to inject new technologies into the classroom in a non-obvious way!

The Creepy Treehouse Problem

March 9, 2010 in Pedagogy by Jason B. Jones

Alex and Jason consider the problem of the creepy treehouse: Students’ antipathy to faculty-imposed requirements to use social media. We offer four strategies for making clear to students that your interest in their social media engagement is pedagogical, rather than personal (ew).

What Is a Lecture For, Anyway?

March 8, 2010 in Pedagogy by Jason B. Jones

In which Jason learns about the value of lectures from a presentation about toys.

The Profhacker Week in Review

March 7, 2010 in Life, Pedagogy, Productivity by Jason B. Jones

ProfHacker’s traditionally late wrap-up of the previous week’s posts.

Weekend Reading: Oscars edition

March 5, 2010 in Life, Pedagogy, Productivity by Jason B. Jones

ProfHacker gets you ready for the weekend with five links plus a video.

On the temptation to evil

March 5, 2010 in Pedagogy by Jason B. Jones

Have you ever gotten some really bad advice? Not just advice that won’t work–advice that’s evil, but offered in good faith? Do tell!

Multiple Choice Questions on Exams

March 5, 2010 in Pedagogy by Prof. Hacker

Guest author Derek Bruff explains that multiple-choice questions, when properly designed and integrated into a class, can provide a useful way to assess how well students are learning concepts.

When You Need a Substitute Teacher

March 4, 2010 in Pedagogy by Nels P. Highberg

If you had to immediately hand your classes over to someone else for one, two, or three weeks, would you be ready? What can we do to be ready should we not be able to teach our classes for more than a day or two?

Teaching Graduate Students

March 4, 2010 in Pedagogy by Prof. Hacker

In college, we can learn a bit about how to teach high school courses. In a master’s program, we can learn a bit about how to teach undergraduate courses. As TA and Ph.D. students, we can learn how to teach undergraduate courses in our specialty areas. It turns out, though, that we never really learn how to teach a graduate course. And then we are plopped into the middle of one.