A few weeks ago I suggested that students poor penmanship may be affecting their writing abilities. Turns out, our students may be writing better than ever if this Wired article by Clive Thompson can be believed.
In many circles it’s vogue to say that students are getting dumber because of texting and Facebook. Turns out [...]

Just a quick update for all you new teachers out there. Here is a great article from Tomorrow’s Professor Blog about the ten worst teaching mistakes a professor can make. It’s geared towards engineering, however, the concepts can be applied across disciplines quite easily.
The Ten Worst Teaching Mistakes

Who said learning wasn’t fun? If you’ve spent too much time in academia, however, you start to get the feeling that learning isn’t fun.
Students hate going to class, professors are teaching too many classes. Homework, tests, grading – it all starts to overwhelm and make the learning process kind of a drag.
Here’s the crazy thing: [...]

Today’s lesson is short and simple, but can be the most difficult to execute.
Have you ever attended a lecture and the lecturer just seems to have ‘it’?
The lecturer has great material, his slides are designed well, the lecture flows, his props are relevant, he’s kind of funny and afterward you can still remember all [...]

Many professors tend to blame boring lectures on the uninteresting topics they teach. However, many times what makes your course interesting is how your students are interacting – not what you are teaching. This next lesson will draw upon what you learned in lesson one about getting in tune with your students to help you [...]

Darren Rowse at Problogger.net wrote a great series on engaging readership for blogs. The material is applicable to teachers engaging students as well so we’ve repackaged it for you guys and this is what we came up with.
Welcome to your first lesson in engaging students. Over the next seven weeks our blog will contain seven [...]