The fallacy of evaluating “the flipped class”
In nearly 30 years of teaching, I can’t recall another teaching innovation that has aroused such interest and rapid adoption among college faculty as the “flipped” class. Somewhat belatedly, we are now...
View ArticleLearning Catalytics and the Flipped Class
One of the greatest challenges for a teacher or instructor is to discern what students are actually learning and thinking. All teachers have the experience of expounding on a key topic, with wonderful...
View ArticleFlipped case studies workshop at Buffalo, 2014
Kipp Herreid and Nancy Schiller at the University at Buffalo have established the premier collection of case studies for teaching science, at the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science...
View ArticleGenetics topics, videos and case studies
One of the first tasks for the genetics group at the Buffalo flipped case studies workshop was to agree upon a list of the essential and important genetics topics for an intro biology course, and then...
View ArticleJury finds Clark Atlanta U. breached contract and acted in bad faith in...
I wrote a few posts about the mass faculty layoffs by Clark Atlanta University that occurred in early February, 2009. My wife was one of 54 faculty laid off, although she was tenured, in her 20th year,...
View ArticleFirst ever Georgia Tech School of Biology teaching retreat
We had our first ever biennial teaching retreat this past Wednesday and Thursday for Biology faculty, at Callaway Gardens. I emailed a solicitation for agenda items, a number of faculty responded, and...
View ArticleGardner Campbell’s “Apgar” test for student engagement
Thanks to a link from my Twitter feed, I clicked on Gardner Campbell’s UNFIS 2015 keynote talk on “A Taxonomy of Student Engagement” on Youtube. I was enraptured for over an hour – the video itself is...
View ArticleIs it time to ban studies of computers in classrooms?
“Is It Time To Ban Computers From Classrooms?” asks the title of an NPR blog post by Tania Lombrozo. Her post is a mostly accurate summary of a new working paper by Carter, Greenberg and Walker: “The...
View ArticleA little empathy can go a long way
A student stopped me today on my way back from lunch. He looked familiar, but I couldn’t place him at first. Then I recalled that he had appeared at my office door last year, out of the blue. He had...
View ArticleTwo pathologies
Today I’m moved to reflect on the two pathologies gripping our nation, and our world. The first is Covid-19 bringing not only death, illness and fear, but also joblessness, uncertainty, loss of hope,...
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