Category Archives: Pedagogy

Thoughts about teaching.

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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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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things I want in a course design

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Ian

Just thinking out loud here… I want a course design that communicates very clearly to students, in every aspect of its framing and detail, that learning is something they must willfully pursue, not something that just “happens” if they’re obedient … Continue reading →

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