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Flipping the Classroom
In some ways, it’s one of the oldest methods in teaching: introduce new material through out-of-class assignments, then use class time to apply, analyze, dig deeper. In other ways, new technologies...
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Teaching With Blogs
When we assign our students to write things we usually think of traditional papers, but technology has provided us with opportunities for new media and new audiences. Students can learn not only how...
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Faculty Learning Communities Off to a Great Start
This year SMU introduced a new kind of support for teaching excellence, the Faculty Learning Community. These small interdisciplinary groups focus on a topic, study it together, and use their findings...
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CPR for Student Writing
Two tough teaching challenges often join forces: getting students to think critically and to write clearly. A teaching strategy that can help with both is student peer review, but it can too easily...
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Helpful or Just Creepy?
My students have reading assignments for every class, and the quality of class discussion depends very much on whether they have read (and even thought about) those pages. Sometimes, especially at...
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An Example of Teaching with Technology
I’ve been fortunate to be a part of the new Teaching with Technology Faculty Learning Community (FLC). The nine members of the group bring different perspectives to the application of technology in...
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In a previous blog posting, I outlined my use of a tablet PC in the classroom. One of the ways I use the tablet is to screencast my lecture, recording both the visual output (my notes and PowerPoint)...
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It’s Not Just the Students Who Multitask
I started reading the Chronicle piece entitled “You’re Distracted. This Professor Can Help” feeling very smug and superior. Those foolish students — why do they not realize that their constant...
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SMU Professor Publishes on Teaching with Technology
Last year, CTE launched its first Faculty Learning Communities, including one whose members spent 2012-13 investigating effective ways to use technology in and out of the classroom. Professor Paul...
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