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Bring students into the conversation as early as possible by having them collaborate on the syllabus, outline the objectives of the course, design activities and assessments, etc. Jesse Stommel Podcast Fried, F. & Heinemeier Hansson, D. (2020). Remote work Q&A Part I and Part II. The Rework Podcast. This is a longer than usual introduction…
In this episode we’re joined by almost 60 physiotherapists from around the world to share and discuss ideas around remote teaching of practical skills as part of the undergraduate programme.
Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. Podcast Galeph, J. (2018). Stuart Ritchie on “Conceptual objections to IQ testing”. Rationally speaking. I used to think that IQ tests were only good at measuring performance on IQ tests but over the past few years my thinking around IQ testing has evolved. In…
The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work. Wanda Landowska Podcast Stachowiak, B. (2019). Using challenges to motivate learners. Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. In this episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast Michael Wesch, Professor of…
Everything works somewhere, nothing works everywhere. Dylan Wiliams Podcast Wills, S. (2013). Peter Brantley on annotating the web. The Scholarly Kitchen Podcast. Peter Brantley, the director of scholarly communication at the start-up Hypothes.is, talks about the firm’s efforts to build an open annotation layer on the Web, his thoughts on how in-line annotation differs, in…
The saddest and most ironic practice in schools is how hard we try to measure how students are doing and how rarely we ever ask them. Amy Fast Podcast David Manheim on “Goodhart’s Law and why metrics fail. Rationally Speaking podcast. What they’re usually doing is following the rules that they’ve been given, to achieve…
Too many classrooms at all levels of schooling now resemble a ‘dead zone,’ where any vestige of critical thinking, self-reflection and imagination quickly migrate to sites outside of the school only to be mediated and corrupted by a corporate-driven media culture. Henry A. Giroux Podcast Wiblin, R. & Harris, R. (2018). Economist Bryan Caplan thinks…
In this episode Ben and I talk about our experiences at WCPT, as well as the massive success of the Unposter and what this means for the future of conferences. This discussion represents another example of how simply having an in-depth conversation about a topic has changed my thinking around it.
For education… always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. W.E.B. Du Bois Podcast Gooblar, D. The Missing Course. Teaching in Higher Ed podcast In this episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Bonnie Stachowiak speaks to David Gooblar about how teachers are almost never…
Hi everyone This is the first of what we hope will be a monthly newsletter from In Beta where we highlight a few things that we think you might find useful, thoughtful, or just plain interesting. The format is really simple: we’ll share three items each month, including 1 podcast (not our own), 1 research…
