Nov 13, 2017
The Dodecahedron is a character from the book The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. He lives in the city of Digitopolis at the base of the Mountains of Ignorance. On page 148 he has this conversation with Milo and the Humbug. “I’m not very good at problems,”...
Nov 13, 2017
If you aren’t closely involved with a college student who is far from home, that might seem like a funny topic for a teaching blog. However, that’s not a rhetorical question. Semester after semester, I have my students create a blog. Their first entry includes a...
Nov 13, 2017
I was privileged to receive some insight into the mind of young people last week. I have since had time to really think about and consider how many of us may categorize them. This insight is the fact that young people today have access to every bit of knowledge in the...
Nov 13, 2017
Do you remember how you felt about your favorite college professors–the one whose name you looked for when it came time to sign up for classes, the one whose teaching precipitated one of those sea changes in thinking that happen to college freshmen? I’ve had...
Nov 9, 2017
On the heels of our Friday Forum on cheating, I discovered a student cheating on a test. Right in front of me, not subtly, just looking over at another student’s test! When students take exams, nothing is allowed on their desks. They must spread out. As I looked...
