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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Rocket Pitch
I’ve decided to use an exercise that I witnessed at the NEGMA conference on innovation – the rocket pitch. At the conference, competitors for venture capital had three minutes each to sell their ideas to the audience, who voted for their favorites … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Comparative Politics, Exercises
Tagged competition, money, Monopoly, NEGMA, presentations
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Quick Exercise on Politics, Distribution, Decision Rules, and Deaths
I did a quick exercise with my intro IR class yesterday that reinforced a lesson on the meaning of politics and its distributive implications, showed them how decision rules matter, and served as a jumping off point for a discussion … Continue reading
Getting out of the classroom (and into another)
Today I’m involved with various activities for schools and colleges: our School of Politics is organising a day of events on ”Have we learnt the lessons of Afghanistan?” and a bit later, I’m taking part in a webinar with the IES in … Continue reading
Live from the 1st Annual NEGMA Conference @ MIT Media Lab
I’m sitting in a large 6th floor room of the MIT Media Lab at the 1st Annual NEGMA Conference, ”Innovative Solutions for a Brighter Egypt.” The conference is an application of active learning principles. The conference is in part designed to support … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, and Projects, Chad Raymond, Group Collaboration, Social Networking/Media
Tagged Egypt, Google, NEGMA, Wael Fakharany
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Teachers as Norm-setters
This week I have a couple of classroom observations in my diary, as part of Surrey’s developmental work in L&T: I sit in on colleagues in different parts of the university and then feedback on practice. As part of the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Activities, Simon Usherwood
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Project-Based Learning
While stumbling around the interweb yesterday, I happened upon an excellent teacher’s guide to project-based learning. This guide developed out of a partnership between High Tech High (a network of non-selective public charter schools in San Diego), the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and the UK’s Innovation Unit. The … Continue reading
Crowd-Sourced Studying
Similar to Simon’s experience with the MCQ exam, students typically formed groups and divided the questions among members when doing my take-out quizzes and the connections exercise last semester, but they failed to verify that each other’s answers were correct. This semester, … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Exam, Group Collaboration, Uncategorized
Tagged collaborative learning, exam, Revolution 2.0, Wael Ghonim
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Open Book, Open Mouth MCQ Exam
Yesterday saw my first run at a multiple-choice in-class exam, where students could bring in any materials and talk to each other. The idea was one that I got from my good colleagues on this blog, who suggested that even … Continue reading
Dennis Rodman, Michelle Obama, and Kim Kardashian walk into a bar….
…. it is a moment destined for Twitterdom, all three instantaneously update their statuses…. You panic!!!! This fits your student’s research paper on the leveling nature of social media as a universal conversation among the different stratas of power in … Continue reading
A Bad Romance ….Gaga over Edutainment
Soomo Publishing’s take on Suffrage….it’s such a Bad Romance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYQhRCs9IHM A year ago in Albuquerque as I was discussing the games and simulations we play in class at the annual TLC and one of my colleagues winced a little. So I … Continue reading
Posted in Amanda Rosen, Exercises & Projects, Nina Kollars, Uncategorized
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