GEDI / Grad 5114 – Fall 2015
I didn’t realize that our blog posts are about the coming week’s reading until last week, so I have been writing reflections after class in previous four weeks! As we did that in our Preparing Future Professoriate class…so I guess I am a victim of rigid thinking that I gained from so many years of … Continue reading GRAD5114: Review of Online Gerontology Courses →
Read moreFour Things Lecture Is Good For conveys a simple, but always being overlooked, principle: instructors should teach students thinking in lectures, rather than cover materials. It has been recognized that modern education changed from “teaching-centered” to “learning-centered”. This means that the primary purpose of any forms of teaching, including lecture, is to improve the ability … Continue reading Give A Fish or Teach Fishing
Read moreI may have a short attention span, but I find it hard to focus on a whole lecture, follow the pace, and understand the different key points the teacher is trying to make. A lot of lectures have a fast pace where the teacher is trying to cover a lot mat…
Read moreIn his article “Setting Students’ Minds on Fire,” Mark C. Carnes discusses the idea of incorporating games into education, making the classroom a competitive environment in which students are driven by the desire to win and feel a strong sense of perso…
Read moreFor many of us, the discussion of assessment this week circled around issues of incentive, and motivation (external vs. internal). Several people identified imagination as a key ingredient in all of the above. One of us even noted that the future needed to be imagined before it could be invented. Next week is all about firing up the imagination for […]
Read moreHey everyone, I have taught a few classes and been the GTA for a number of others. It was interesting to reflect on the different types of implementation that assessment received with every different professor and classroom. In architecture the … Continue reading →
Read moreAssessment to me is a very effective self reflection tool. But the key is it is more for reflection. The idea behind assessment is to help perform a self-check on how much you have been able to grasp and refine your understanding incrementally. Two characteristics of humans have helped to create “The Grading Monster”. I am not […]
Read moreDon’t Fall Asleep. Sometimes I feel like grades aren’t measuring our academic abilities as much as they are measuring our ability to stay awake. Maybe this feeling is a bit unfair or maybe it’s showing my … Continue reading →
Read moreHonestly, I don’t blame students that asks their teachers if the material is going to be on the test or not. For all my life, I focused on getting good grades so I can continue my education journey, secure acceptance in college and higher education, an…
Read moreI recall back to the TED talk from Ken Robinson (“How to Escape Education’s Death Valley”), how we do need some agreed upon notions or what is generally good or bad (cholesterol was the given example). This isn’t meant to exclude the need for individualization, but it does indicate the use for standardization at some … Continue reading Assessment as a Single Tool Among a Mixed Toolbox
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