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Active Learning Not Associated with Student Learning in a Random Sample of College Biology Courses
Active Learning Not Associated with Student Learning in a Random Sample of College Biology Courses I’ve been collecting these sorts research examples and making an effort to read them thoroughly, partially because I think we’ve become a bit too self-congratulatory on active learning, and partially because you learn more from these failures than yet another… Continue reading
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Juliette Culver is a Freaking Genius
I just decided to give Evernote another try, found my old account active, and spent a couple hours going through my old bookmarks from 2009. One was to Juliette Culver’s blog, which I’d made a note to myself was brilliant. It is, but more importantly it’s just even-keeled and unpretentious in its brilliance. It cuts through hype… Continue reading
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the briefing room: Canadian university considers radical change
the briefing room: Canadian university considers radical change thebriefingroom: Find out why some students are opposed …That problem could be eliminated for future students at tiny Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, which is debating switching to a block plan where students would be taught one course at a time, rather than five at… Continue reading
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A real paper really wrote this
From the NYT: “In addition, Senate Republican leaders would go after “millionaires and billionaires,” not by raising their taxes but by making them ineligible for unemployment compensation and food stamps and increasing their Medicare premiums.” It’s things like this that make me sign up for yet another semester teaching statistical literacy. The fact that this sentence exists… Continue reading
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But this is what I see as the next wave: demonize the public schools, create this marketplace where people think, instead of thinking of the common good, instead of thinking of community, instead of thinking what’s good for our children, we say, what’s in it for me? What about my child? Forget about your children, that’s your problem. My child. That’s market thinking…But the goal is to move away from public education as a public responsibility, like the fire department, like the police department, like public parks, like other kinds of public facilities. Privatize public education so that everyone becomes a consumer, children become products, and entrepreneurs can find lots and lots of money to be made. That is somehow going to make us globally competitive.
But this is what I see as the next wave: demonize the public schools, create this marketplace where people think, instead of thinking of the common good, instead of thinking of community, instead of thinking what’s good for our children, we say, what’s in it for me? What about my child? Forget about your children,… Continue reading
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On Borders
I guess I’d ask Stephen the same question he asked on Hapgood a week or two ago about Connectivism — he says people are saying F2F institutions are safe from the effects of the digital, networked revolution — but who exactly is saying these things? Links? It seems to me that most people think some portion… Continue reading
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Secretary of Education Urges Colleges to Rein In Costs
Secretary of Education Urges Colleges to Rein In Costs It’s easy to believe that the student protests against tuition, at least at the state colleges, might at least stall the tumble of state appropriations. I think it’s unlikely. In fact, I think the net effect of the tuition protests will be a crackdown on college… Continue reading
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The Studying Gap – International Edition
I got interested whether the Humanities/Science study divide held up internationally, so I checked out the excellent EUROSTUDENT report. And guess what? It does (with an interesting student employment twist): (Sorry about the graph… it’s just huge). Here’s what the report concluded: Humanities students tend to study less and work alongside their studies more frequently The… Continue reading
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The Studying Gap
Yglesias: People, I believe, intuit that the STEM fields are good majors. But I think that’s not just, or even primarily, because of their intrinsic merits. The fact that these programs are hard and the people in them tend to spend a lot of time studying is an important part of the story. By contrast, majoring in… Continue reading
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Canadian students more in student loan debt than American students
From MacLeans.ca: In the U.S., average debt at graduation rose to $25,250 in 2010, according to a Nov. 3 report by the Project on Student Debt. Here in Canada, students were graduating with an average debt of $26,680 according to a 2009 report released by the Millennium Scholarship Foundation. If anything, the Canadian average is higher now.… Continue reading
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