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On Mark Guzdial’s Post: Instruction makes student attitudes on computational modeling worse.
From Mark Guzdial’s Blog today: Instruction makes student attitudes on computational modeling worse: Caballero thesis part 3 « Computing Education Blog. I think this is pretty interesting but I can’t say I’m surprised. My reaction: Given the experiences I’ve had … Continue reading
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Blame the messenger: Why Do People Think the problem is PowerPoint?
What would you rather do than sit through a PowerPoint presentation? – National presentation skills | Examiner.com. It seems that blaming PowerPoint for boring or outright bad presentations is still popular. That’s bad enough. What’s worse, is that people think … Continue reading
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Are Education Academics Clueless Snobs?
Yes, Virginia, There Is Knowledge Transfer « iterating toward openness. From David Wiley‘s iterating toward openness blog. The fact that academics are incapable of recognizing that 99-some-percent of all the learning that happens in the world is pure and simple … Continue reading
The Problem with Taxonomies in Education
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FUN Should NOT be an ‘F’-Word
… but, sadly, it appears it still is. Playing with Reality at the Learning and Entertainment Evolution Forum – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education. The opening keynote by Nathan Verrill, co-founder of Natron Baxter, set the tone for … Continue reading
Student evaluations of teaching don’t correlate with learning gains « Computing Education Blog
Student evaluations of teaching don’t correlate with learning gains « Computing Education Blog. Mark Guzdial comments on a post made on (LISTSERV 16.0 – AERA-L Archives.) by Richard Hake, who disagrees with the popular (especially among administrators) notion that student … Continue reading
Frankencode and Other Writing
Students, Reading and Writing – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education. A former student of mine once coined a phrase that he used to describe the phenomenon whereby students take bits of code from various other programs and stitch … Continue reading
Trading off between Education and Fun??? SRSLY?
The Wall Must Come Down | Learning From Hollywood. Some years ago I did a survey with public school teachers to see if they were using games in school, and if not, why not. Some of the obvious and significant … Continue reading
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