Category Archives: Learning & Teaching

Thoughts about the processes of learning and teaching, and about how to do either well.

learning from the game designers

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Ian

Grant Wiggins nails what I want to figure out how to do in physics. See the second half of this post, beginning with the paragraph that starts “Demographics have nothing to do with designing backward…”: Granted, but (Mar 29)

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A2L is back

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Ian

Assessing-to-Learn (A2L) was a web site full of physics questions for clicker (classroom response system) teaching, created by my group at UMass while I was there. It’s been unavailable since sometime this spring, when the old server it was on … Continue reading →

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worth reading

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Ian

Grant Wiggins: “Everything you know about curriculum may be wrong. Really.”

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reaction to Barak Rosenshine’s “Principles of Instruction”

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Ian

The Spring 2012 issue of American Educator (available here until the next issue displaces it) led off with two articles that have caused some consternation among my local twitterverse. At first glance, the articles seem to make a frontal assault … Continue reading →

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“Just tell me what you learned…”

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Ian

It’s Saturday night at the end of spring break, my wife is nine days into an eleven-day trip out-of-state, most of my friends are out of town too, and I’m feeling moody and philosophical. So what do I do? Try … Continue reading →

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