Category: Week 5 – Engaging Digital Learners

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 →

Four 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

I 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…

In 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…