Full-length videos and video clips can be very useful in teaching. However, it is important to consider ahead of time what you hope your students will learn from the videos. You will also need to plan out how you will help the students learn, and how you will know whether they have done so. In…
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Episode 3 – Watching Films Critically with Mari Crabtree
As teachers, we are constantly looking for teaching methods that are socially relevant and pedagogically meaningful. This two-pronged goal to be cool and educational doesn’t always present itself easily. The ever-cool and ever-educational Socrates, however, may offer some helpful direction. In the Book 7 of the Republic, he insists, “Don’t beat your students upside the head…
Getting Students Set up in Poll Everywhere
Will you be using Poll Everywhere with your students this semester? Make sure students set up their profiles correctly. Here are a few pointers that can help getting things up and running more smoothly: Text Responses Participants MUST PROVIDE THEIR PHONE NUMBER that they will be texting responses from listed in their profile to be…
Making It Stick – Increase Your Abilities
Chapter 7 of Make It Stick is called “Increase Your Abilities.” The chapter is a conglomeration of related topics devoted to showing people can increase their learning abilities. There is a section on “neuroplasticity,” a term neuroscientists are using to describe the ability of the brain to change physiologically based on the formation of synapses. …
Episode 2 – Discussing Spatial Narratives with Sarah Koellner
Sarah Koellner, a visiting assistant professor in the German and Russian Department, is using a technique called mapping to see the changing dynamics of East and West Germany as portrayed in the German TV series “Germany 83” and “Germany 86.” When I spoke with her this past week, she brought me up to speed on the…