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26 août 2016

EdTech I Will Never Use in the Classroom

By John Warner. I received a message to my school email with a subject line asking about my cell phone policy. I thought maybe this person had read one of my posts about my struggles over finding a policy that works with my particular pedagogical values. Read more...

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26 août 2016

A Failure of Empathy

By John Warner. I’ve been thinking about empathy, its role in life, and especially its role in teaching.
A particular failure of empathy has stuck with me for many years.
At the time, I could be quick to assume the worst about a student, often based on surface-level indicators. Read more...

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26 août 2016

Fear and Politics; Fear and Education

By John Warner. Would you rather be safe or feel safe?
It’s a tougher question than it seems. Naturally, we would rather be safe from harm since harm is less likely, but what if you can’t help but feel as though you aren’t safe. Read more...

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26 août 2016

To Lecture or Not to Lecture. What Was the Question?

By John Warner. Please know, I come neither to bury nor to praise the lecture, but to contextualize it to my own experience, to reflect on its shifting role in my pedagogy, and perhaps spur others to do their own considering. Read more...

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26 août 2016

Recognizing and Rewarding Exemplary Teaching (Not Just Excellent Teaching)

By Thomas Carey. We have seen considerable discussion in recent Inside Higher Ed articles about “Teaching Excellence”, whether at the individual or institutional levels. We know this concept can be problematic: a focus on Excellent Teaching can have negative side effects in promoting an individualistic and competitive environment. Read more...

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26 août 2016

Is It Fall Already?

By Deborah Maue. If you’re like me, you imagine all of the things you will get done over the summer – the long list of things you never got to during the school year. Now the cold, hard reality of mid-August sets in, as you realize you didn’t get to most of the things on the list. More...

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26 août 2016

Friday Fragments - August 25, 2016

By Matt Reed. Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: Hooray for Herb Alpert!
He just donated over 10 million dollars to fund free tuition for music students at Los Angeles City College. I’m guessing he made most of his money from A&M records, as opposed to “Spanish Flea,” but I can’t prove that. More...

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26 août 2016

Super ausgebildet, super frustiert

Von Esther Göbel. Vom Zielfahnder zum Verwalter, von der Büroleiterin zur Tippse: Millionen Arbeitsnehmer in Deutschland sind überqualifiziert. Wie kann das sein?
Wenn Markus von seinem alten Job erzählt, werden seine Sätze nebulös, er muss dann viel erklären, oft um den eigentlichen Kern herumreden, weiter ausholen, umschreiben statt konkret benennen. Erklär´ mal jemandem, was ein Zielfahnder der Bundeswehr nach dem Bosnien-Krieg auf dem Balkan gemacht hat! Naja, Kriegsverbrecher gesucht, sagt Markus dann, aber Details darf er nicht verraten. Geheim. Mehr...

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26 août 2016

Ubiquity University seeks new ground in for-profit education

By Jarrett Carter. If higher education as a business model is collapsing under the weight of weakening public support, fewer students seeking the product and rising costs for workforce and capital maintenance, one institution believes it has the answer to saving students time, money and the industry at large. More...

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26 août 2016

The top university degrees that could leave you jobless

THEY take a whole load of brainpower and several years of study, but a new report reveals a series of top science university degrees could leave you jobless.
Science and IT are the courses business people and politicians tell students to study, but they just might be blinding them with science. More...

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