Hapgood

Mike Caulfield's latest web incarnation. Networked Learning, Open Education, and Online Digital Literacy

September 2011

  • Hattie’s Table of Effect Sizes

    Hattie’s Table of Effect Sizes I need more information to make this table meaningful — and meta-analyses are always tricky things. But I think tables like this (and Hattie is just a follower here of Bloom and others) help people think about prioritizing changes to pedagogy. What Hattie finds, of course, is unsurprising — feedback Continue reading

  • You will do what you are told, until the rights are sold…

    I’m with this commentary, mostly, until about halfway through when it gets into the thicket of what ownership means. There is a shock doctrine that edtech-vangelists have been all-to-willing to sell. Here’s the real deal, once again. The main problem with education is that it competes financially as a social good with health care. Health Continue reading

  • Worker=Hipster Redux

    Worker=Hipster Redux I read You Are Not a Gadget, and was pleasantly surprised with its style and presentation. Of the hivemind backlash posse, I’d be happy to hang out with Lanier any day, and maybe along with Nick Carr we could go play Ding-Dong-Dash on Bauerlein.  On the whole, though, Lanier is wrong, and this Continue reading

  • The Benefits of Using Clickers in Small-Enrollment Seminar-Style Biology Courses

    The Benefits of Using Clickers in Small-Enrollment Seminar-Style Biology Courses More decent stuff out of CU, this time on clicker use in small classes. Not anything rigorous here in regards to measuring learning gains (the problem with interventions in a twelve person seminar is, of course, it’s a sample size of twelve) but a nicely written explanation Continue reading

  • Single-Concept Clicker Question Sequences

    Single-Concept Clicker Question Sequences Interesting research about a small modification to Peer Instruction sequence (from Sept 2011 issue of The Physics Teacher). What I fine maybe most interesting though is this chart: Leaving aside the E&M results (students should be able to review clicker questions, obviously) the interesting thing to me is that the gains Continue reading