Emerging Technologies
Muhammad Saleem sent this cool infographic based on the New Media Consortium’s 12 emerging technologies to watch.
Month: March 2013
Impact of Prior Knowledge on Teaching
In our GRAD 602 class last week, we spent some time surfacing our students’ beliefs about learning. As Laura noted in her blog, we “dabbled in the classic ‘See one, do one, teach one.’” From there, we then discussed some of the work of John Bransford on How People Learn, as well as the opening… Read more Impact of Prior Knowledge on Teaching
Yet Another Pi Day Has Come
Another Pi Day (3.14) is upon us, and math geeks worldwide celebrate this most famous of irrational numbers. For those who would love to follow the thread, here is a link to one million digits of pi. Yet, I feel some other just as good irrational numbers are being left out. There are plenty of… Read more Yet Another Pi Day Has Come
A Conversation on Risk Taking by New Faculty
It’s Spring Break here at VCU, so no GRAD-602 class this week. However, as Jeff Nugent, David McLeod and I are all here this week…and since the Open VA Conference was cancelled due to a March snow storm, we decided to have another podcast conversation. Last week in our class, our students discussed a case… Read more A Conversation on Risk Taking by New Faculty