You’re probably curious about WHY I would bother to do such a crazy, stressful, unnecessary thing, but I’ll going to start with the HOW instead. I’m pretty good at faces, but terrible at names. So to compensate, I use all the usual tricks everyone already knows, like...
Our first teachers are our families, and after my parents, nobody taught me more than my grandpa, Richard Post, who passed away two weekends ago. My grandfather taught me a lot of Big Things, of course. But it was the little things I learned from him that I’ve found...
I ended last week on one way that I teach constructive disagreement--through investigating bias and trying a new argument style. Constructive disagreement is what I want from my students--at the college level, I want them to go beyond Graham’s Hierarchy of...
It is empowering to engage with educators and librarians IRL At #OEOSummit2018 #OEOSUMMIT18 – Thank you for anohter great day @eCampusOntario
— Laura Killam (@NurseKillam) November 12, 2018
Today, in the final session at the OEO Summit the eCampusOntario Fellows …
This is my seventh post for the 9x9x25 Challenge.
This evening while I was waiting at the airport to board my plane to Toronto for TESS 2018, I ran into one of my former students. I taught her when she …
Where we left off last week is that people have trouble constructively disagreeing and prefer to shut down and dismiss instead of hearing out or seeking out debate and opposition. In fact, some so distrust these actions that they actively distrust journalistic media...
Last Friday’s Friday Forum focused on using reflection and metacognition in the classroom. We talked about using student reflection for two purposes: 1) instructor’s information--we can use student reflection to assess learning, pacing, and/or achievement of outcomes,...
Reading a few other posts from this week and the last gets me thinking about how we "do" education. For students to be successful (and complete on time), they really need to bet taking at least 4 classes a semester. Now we know that for many students this is almost...
To a bunch of high school students railing against the system in the 70’s, Jimmy Reeves was “The Guy”. You know the type, long wavy brown hair, a trimmed but significant beard, often clothed in jeans and sandals with a wonderfully impish smile. A common enough...