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Rising College Costs Are Due Largely to Books, Room, and Board, Study Finds
Update — I just noticed this was a CCAP study. So forget the study —Vedder’s little conservative lobbyist think tank does the sloppiest work around, and I am pretty sure this study is no different. I regret having given it (mistakenly) any publicity at all. I do wish the Chronicle would stop publishing CCAP’s press… Continue reading
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Don’t FEAR the FERPA
The Bava is bavatastic today. From You Can’t Spell FERPA Without FEAR: But thanks to a tweet by Mike Caulfield almost two years ago, I finally had a way to think UMW Blogs’ relationship to FERPA differently. Mike basically noted that by giving students their own spaces online wherein they control their online identities, decide what they… Continue reading
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utnereader: The New York City crime rate famously plummeted in the mid-1990s under the watch of police chief William Bratton, who introduced a computerized mapping system called CompStat to help cops track crime hot spots. He later took the system to Los Angeles, where once again crime plunged. CompStat is now used nationwide, reports Miller-McCune,… Continue reading
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Radio Lives, But Why?
One of the big surprises to me of the last 10 years or so has been the persistent power FM radio has maintained, now two decades into the web revolution, and a decade and a half after Napster. Here’s a chart of where the “most committed” (e.g. high spending music lovers) learn about new music:… Continue reading
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True of Connectivism Too?
From Pinker, How the Mind Works (emphasis mine): Why put connectoplasm under such strong lights? Certainly not because I think neural-network modeling is unimportant — quite the contrary! Without it, my whole edifice on how the mind works would be left levitating in midair. Nor do I think that network modeling is merely subcontracting out… Continue reading
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Critical Thinking and Clickers
Reading up for the Critical Skills workshop, found this paper out of Colorado University: When teaching with clickers for the first time, the first author wrote several ConcepTest-style questions assessing students’ correct application of sociological theories and concepts. Students worked hard at answering these questions, but they seemed intensely focused on getting the correct answer at… Continue reading
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The State and its Monopoly on Violence
Well, brief detour from ed stuff for a minute, but I hope you will indulge. I’m reading Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, and it’s just really good. I’ll talk soon about how this book could be worked into a statistical literacy course (the ed angle), but I wanted to just share something the… Continue reading
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On the basis of that research, Ms. Howard calls for a “fundamental shift” in how writing is taught. Professors should focus more on starting the research process collaboratively with students, she says. They should select a few complex sources and explore them with the whole class. “What that means is not rushing students quite so quickly in their first semester in college into writing a 25-page research paper written from 15 sources,” she says, “but rather taking them through the process of engaging with those sources first.”
On the basis of that research, Ms. Howard calls for a “fundamental shift” in how writing is taught. Professors should focus more on starting the research process collaboratively with students, she says. They should select a few complex sources and explore them with the whole class. “What that means is not rushing students quite so… Continue reading
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Efficiency = Feedback / Cost
This is exactly the kind of formulation that drives me mad sometimes. But in a time where our budgets are imploding it’s better to give management a simple formula that encapsulates much of the debate than to merely cross your fingers that they get it. We’re kind of blessed to have an enlightened administration here at Keene… Continue reading
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Two Educational Contexts
From Dan Kahneman: True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes. You are probably an expert in guessing your spouse’s mood from one word on the telephone; chess players find a strong move in a single glance at a complex position; and true legends of instant diagnoses are common among… Continue reading
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