I'm grading AP US History exams this week. It's not a particularly fun process. Most of the tests are not very good. But it drives me INSANE that the other graders find it just so damn funny that students are confused and say ridiculous things...
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When I read articles like the one Margaret Soltan linked to about texting in class, I can't help but be thankful that I once took—and took to heart what I.
Since the NYT is revisiting Joe Wilson's June 2003 op-ed on his trip to Africa in search of uranium deals, I feel compelled to crank up on the Wayback Machine.
Reading this post reminded me that I had thoughts, a year or so ago, about the disconnect between how the academic literature breaks down the state and the way that policymakers consistently seem to fail to understand that other states have domestic politics. In particularly,...
Having been born at the tail end of the baby boom, I'm now about a quarter century older than most of my students. This creates certain pedagogical challenges, one of.
(The rest of the post is quite long and requires you already be interested in how to teach students how to acquire a credible academic ethos ... but since a.
Via James Joyner, I'm wondering whether this really characterizes a common experience in higher ed:All course materials, including weekly presentations, must be submitted months in advance. This, I’m told, is not only to ensure that books are ordered and copyrights cleared, but also for the...
The final assignment of my visual rhetoric course is called Rhetoric in Practice (or RIP). It has two components. To paraphrase the rubric: the students create their own rhetorical performance,.
The Monty Hall problem is a well-known thought experiment in probability analysis. The problem is fairly simple, but for reasons that aren't well understood the right answer is sufficiently counter-intuitive.
Two of the "acquire an alternative skill set with real world application" assignments that we teach in composition are 1) how to build and manage a wiki and 2) how to compose a PowerPoint presentation that doesn't cause your audience to slit your throat or...
Today is the first day of my National Security Policy course; website here, with syllabus. The National Security Policy course is one half of the core National Security major requirement.
While I see the logic, I also worry that if I banned laptop use in my classes I'd be deprived of the privilege of demanding that people look things up.