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Author Archives: craymondsalve
Syria Scholarship Initiative
As some of you know, I advocate for campus internationalization so that undergraduate students in the USA get exposed to multiple cultural perspectives. One of the most rewarding aspects of my college career was getting to know and become friends … Continue reading
Posted in Multicultural-International-Global
Tagged Syria, IIE, International, Emergency, Fund, Jusoor
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Baselining 1: Intro to IR
In one of my recent posts, I vowed to start pre- and post-testing in my courses so that I’d have better quantitative data for summative assessment. As an initial step toward achieving this goal, I looked at previous syllabi, writing assignments, and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Chad Raymond, Exam, Assessment, Learning
Tagged assessment, hindsight bias, summative, pre-test, post-test, outcome, cognitive consistency, balancing, bandwagoning, theory, sovereignty
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Anti-Fragile Universities
I recently had a conversation with a retired IT administrator from Boston University. He commented that people in universities, just like in most other organizations, usually operate to preserve the existing order. This reminded me of how difficult it is … Continue reading
Learning By Making
For the last several weeks I’ve been thinking somewhat haphazardly about how to make my courses more relevant to students’ post-graduation lives. Those thoughts came into sharper focus after hearing Sal Khan, the creator of Khan Academy, say the “most important … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Problem solving, Projects
Tagged Bandcamp, bootcamp, Chanel, Coco, disability, entrepreneur, Khan Academy, Missing Twin, Oprah, Salman Khan, Teespring, veteran
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Flipping the Classroom in the Great White North
I just received notification about Dr. Christopher Alcantara’s experience with the flipped classroom pedagogy in a politics and film course for first-year college students. His course included some interesting exercises in game theory and the state of nature (follow the links in his … Continue reading
Posted in Films and Fiction
Tagged Alcantara, Canada, flipped classroom, Laurier, Ontario
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A Tiny Evaluation of TED-Ed
Congratulations to Simon on his promotion! He is well on his way to achieving his goal of world domination. Since we’re on the subject of British imperialism, or maybe imperialism in general – I recently stumbled across this Ted-Ed video on … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Technology, Visual Media
Tagged animation, Crash Course, Ho Chi Minh, TedEd
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Baselining
Many of us assess students multiple times during a course — whether for the purposes of formative or summative assessment. Few of us, I think, do this properly, because we don’t establish a baseline or benchmark of students’ knowledge with … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Chad Raymond
Tagged baseline, benchmark, learning outcome, naturalization, post-test, pre-test, test
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Daniel Willingham
If you look to the right, you’ll see some new links in the blogroll — “Ask the Cognitive Scientist” and “Science and Education.” The links will take you to two incredibly informative resources on learning and teaching by Daniel Willingham, … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Cognitive Science and Psychology
Tagged Daniel Willingham, Virginia
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Rocket Pitch Redux
Although I’m abandoning my attempt to teach students how to ask good questions, I will continue to use rocket pitch presentations. Since this activity was inspired by the presentations that entrepreneurs use to attract venture capital, I should have realized that … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Presentations, Problem solving
Tagged entrepreneur, rocket pitch, start-up
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Why Group Work Matters
In my previous post, I presented a sequence of activities based in large part on working in groups. As we all remember from high school biology, group projects are often problematic for students. Groups and the objectives they are supposed to … Continue reading
