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In the terrific book, How People Learn, [1] the authors describe 3 key findings about how people learn, what teachers should do with those findings, and what it might look like in the classroom:
- Students come to the classroom, each with their own pre-existing knowledge, experiences, skills, motivations, and resources, that the teacher needs to draw out and work with through student-centered activities.
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“Cognition” is another word for “thinking”. Metacognition, then, is thinking about your own thinking. Cynthia Brame at Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching has this terrific quote by John Flavell in her post, Thinking About Metacognition:
…I am engaging in metacognition if I notice that I am having more trouble learning A than B.
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More grad students and postdocs want to take the course we teach at UCSD about teaching and learning in higher education, The College Classroom, than we can accommodate. This Quarter, we accepted 40 participants. The class meets for one 90-minute class each week.…
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Do you remember the first time you taught online? What have you learned about online teaching since that first experience, and how have these lessons shaped the way you teach today?
Engaging in questions like this ……
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Here’s a graph showing some guy’s position as he’s out for a walk:
This graph shows the position of some guy out for a walk. Can you tell what he’s doing?
Take a moment and describe in your own words what he’s doing.…
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The Dispossessed describes events on a alien moon and planet, the former occupied by banished anarchists, and the later inhabited by several Earth-like societies. The desert moon is rife with survival challenges, and bureaucratic structures to allocate resources (human and otherwise).…
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One way to achieve effective, evidence-based teaching and learning in higher education is train the next generation of university faculty, today’s graduate students. Then, year after year, a new wave of trained instructors will march into lecture halls around the world until every instructor-thru-professor has a practical and theoretical background in teaching and learning.…
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While I do intend to return to blogging, I’m getting caught up in vlogging at the moment. I’ll be sure to add words soon. If you’re interested in what you see and hear, join the conversation on Google+ with the Reflective Practice Vlogging community.…
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