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24 octobre 2016

How to praise your child: why simply saying ‘well done’ is not helpful

By Bill Lucas. These children are afraid to make mistakes, unlikely to put in the necessary effort and, most importantly, unwilling to really practise because they have a fixed view of how smart they are. More...

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24 octobre 2016

South Africa’s ‘rainbow nation’ is a myth that students need to unlearn

By Daniela Gachago and Asanda Ngoasheng. Apartheid capitalised on differences in race, culture and gender. When it was finally abolished in 1994, South Africa introduced a new ideology in the name of nation building: rainbowism. This emphasised common ground and sameness rather than a focus on difference and was meant to fight racism and discrimination. More...

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24 octobre 2016

Could Grit Thinking Drive Inequality?

By Joshua Kim. It would be difficult to find a more engaging, accomplished, persuasive, and polished academic to keynote a conference. Dr. Duckworth's research is compelling, her presentation is pitch perfect, and her speaking style is both forceful and conversational. More...

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24 octobre 2016

3 Reasons Your Team Should Embrace Long-Distance Work

By Joshua Kim. Someone from your team - from your department or unit or center or institute or division - should leave. More...

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24 octobre 2016

Should We Kill The Conference Panel?

By Joshua Kim. Panel sessions seem to be increasingly popular at the edtech events that I attend. Is the same true at your conferences. More...

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24 octobre 2016

Higher Ed Change and Tim Harford's 'Messy'

By Joshua Kim. My higher ed learning technology friends and I have found ourselves in a weird place. We are passionately committed to institutional advancement around a learning agenda - yet our training and expertise lay outside of leading organizational change. More...

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24 octobre 2016

Recommending Academe...or Not?

By University of Venus. Last week, Conditionally Accepted published a piece by a faculty member who no longer recommends that her students to go into academe. This opinion gives voice to very real concerns expressed by many working in higher education today. More...

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24 octobre 2016

Students Ask the Same Questions as Professionals

By Eric Stoller. At the beginning of the lecture (it was more of a facilitated conversation, but I digress) I asked the students what they already knew about digital marketing and social media. Read more...

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24 octobre 2016

Parenting and the New Television Season

By Laura Tropp. First, I saw This is Us (Spoiler Alert for those not finished watching the first episode). What makes the show interesting is its storytelling: the show intercuts scenes of three siblings living in the present with past moments from their childhood. Read more...

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24 octobre 2016

Math Geek Mom: Here We Go Again!

By Rosemarie Emanuele. In my Statistics class, we study the “binomial distribution,” in which two outcomes, a “success” or “failure” to an experiment, are examined over the course of multiple trials. I begin my Statistics course each year with a mention of this distribution, and how it affects the probability of two people in my classroom sharing the same birthday, noting that, in a classroom of about twenty-five students, the probability is greater than 50% that there will be a match of birthdays. Read more...

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