There is literally a front page most viral post on Imgur right now about this. Microsoft and other companies are making constant, minuscule, and terrifying changes these days. In O365 Excel? Hit a stray key? SHORTCUTS ARE ON LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR NEW SHORTCUTS Nono no please. I just want to put a number in […]
Current Author Module: Technology & Tools
How can I understand? How can I convey?
My courses have an advantage of adaptability. I offer my students a trade on day one: I will NOT: do high stakes examinations twice, give lengthy tests or 10+ page papers. You WILL: attend absolutely every single class, because we are doing continuous hands-on labs between bouts of theory mashed in there like cookie dough. […]
Setting Goals
The primary reason I signed up for this module was because, for my whole teaching career, I’ve recognized “incorporation of technology” to be an area where there is clear and tangible room for improvement. I teach a variety of classes. Graduate classes in our accredited AT program have loads of prescribed “standards” (really learning outcomes), […]
Can AI Think Philosophically?
I signed up for the Techs and Tools module to discover ways in which faculty are incorporating AI technologies into their particular disciplines. I am a Philosophy professor, an attorney, an author, and a musician. I have been updating assignments in several of my courses to challenge students to consider actual and potential capabilities of […]
Great Quote
Stumbled across this quote today and thought it was applicable to our discussions in Tech and Tools. When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution… Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at […]
Trouble with Technology
I have not had any especially difficult experiences with technology, at least nothing that stands out as ‘the worst.’ However, multiple small negative experiences continue to occur that involve technology simply not working as it should. I liken these experiences to relying on a car: I get in the car, expect it to start, assume […]
Losing a Semester of Grades
This is not necessarily pedagogical, but when I was teaching at AUC (The American university in Cairo) we used Turnitin.com and I had an entire semester of assignments (I often tried to include a lot of 100/0, meaning that just by engaging and doing something, the student got 100%) and as I was reviewing finals, […]
Inspirational Sharing
Quick, Easy, Free Human Anatomy Atlas
Human Anatomy atlas that is free, easy to access from any device, and does not require logging in. There are several great tools out there (open access anatomy atlas textbooks, apps, etc.). All of these have limitations that you can’t easily access them from all devices, they require login, and/or the limitation of an ebook, […]
ISeeU: Engagement & Help at Your Level
Seeing as though I’m just in the beginnings of teaching, I find myself having trouble, not with the talking to students, but engaging them, hearing from them, them steering the conversation, them guiding the class, but making it fun to learn. I also find that students have trouble asking for help, whether it’s the in-person […]
