Category Archives: Learning & Teaching

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

a crazy collision of a teaching idea

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Ian

I love it when two different ideas collide in my head, even when I’m not entirely sure whether the result is a beautiful synthesis or an ugly wreck. first idea In a conference paper I wrote exploring what we could … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning & Teaching, Pedagogy, problem/project-based learning | 12 Comments

Post-Holocene Education?

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Ian

Tonight, Prof. Ben Ramsey of the UNCG Religious Studies Department gave the University’s inaugural Future of Learning lecture. I attended. I feel like I’ve been ambushed and beaten up, intellectually speaking. This was not the “bright new horizons in pedagogy” … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Learning & Teaching, Politics | 7 Comments

If flash cards are the answer, we’re asking the wrong question.

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Ian

I’m in St. Louis. I’ve just finished a two-day conference at Washington University that brought together leading cognitive science/cognitive psychology researchers with education researchers and innovators from various STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines. As conferences go, it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Educational Research, Learning & Teaching | 2 Comments

No-Bullshit Teaching

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Ian

This is a post where I try to put some ideas I’ve been wrestling with for a while into new words, hoping for new insight. What follows may or may not be worth a hoot. Caveat emptor. The more I … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning & Teaching, Pedagogy | 1 Comment

What’s in a model?

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Ian

I’m trying to incorporate some of the ideas and practices of Modeling Instruction, especially Eric Brewe’s University Modeling Instruction (MI-U), into my teaching this semester. I can’t do full-on MI-U, since (a) I don’t have six hours per week of … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning & Teaching, Modeling Instruction, Pedagogy | 3 Comments