"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
It has been quite a week in America, with basically half the voting public happy that Trump was re-elected and half (my half) wondering how a convicted felon could possibly be elected. I thought Robert Reich provided an insightful reflection in “The Lesson.” Reich dismissed several conventional interpretations of Trump’s victory over Harris, including claims about… Read more Economics and AI in Post Election America
Those on Twitter are already aware, but a few days ago, I posted: I have been teaching for 26 years since retiring from the Navy, and today is the last day of my last class. #EDU6323 was a good way to finish, with great students past and present. Next adventure is kicking Stage 4 metastatic… Read more New Chapter
On Monday evening, I was in a Zoom conference with some Fall students and fellow doctoral teachers doing an overview of the fall class. Towards the end of the hour, one student began to vent about the fact that we were not lowering out standards during a time of high stress. He could not believe… Read more Empathy, Stress and Teaching Philosophies
It has been over a month since I last blogged … a combination of finishing up a proposal development course with five doctoral students and updating my social media course. So Derek’s book came along at a good time. I just finished Intentional Tech: Principles to guide the use of educational technology in college teaching,… Read more Mindful and Intentional Tech
This week, my 8-week Northeastern class, EDU-6323 – Technology as a Medium for Learning, started. Before diving in to various technologies while working through Michelle Miller’s book Minds Online, we spend the first week exploring what learning in a networked world might actually mean. Readings include: Brown, Dehoney, and Millichap. (2015). The Next Generation Digital… Read more Truth 3.0
In my post last Saturday on eLearning Myths a Decade Later, Sue Waters in Australia asked a good question: While I first taught online at the University of Nebraska in 1995 (pre-LMS’s), I have been teaching continuously online since 2001. So I thought I would look back 18 years and 8 years, and compare my… Read more Changes in Two Decades of Online Teaching
I made some minor changes to my posted teaching philosophy two years ago and last year…but it really had not been updated since 2014…and as we all know, the world of 2018 is markedly different from the world of 2014. The web now is not as friendly as it once was, and “truth” now carries… Read more Updating My Teaching Philosophy
I was honored to be asked by Vicki Davis – a.k.a. CoolCatTeacher – to join her in one of her 10-Minute Teacher Podcasts. We talked about the recent Facebook scandal and lessons we should take from it as educators. Social media is a daily presence in the lives of our students, our colleagues, and our… Read more My Facebook Scandal Podcast
As those who read me know, I have been participating in a recent blogging challenge that has emerged called blimage – a “blog image” challenge: You must use an image sent to you and “incorporate it into your blog, and write a post about learning based on it…Then pass an image of your choice on… Read more A Layered Blimage Challenge
Flipping the classroom has been the rage the past few years. As Sams and Bergmann noted, many instructors assume that this means making videos for students to watch at home…”as though that were the essential ingredient.” They go on to note: “Flipped learning is not about how to use videos in your lessons. It’s about… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 19 – Flipped Out