Category Archives: Chad Raymond

ABCing Yourself

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

In reference to Simon’s post about using the ABC method to get formative “feedfoward” while a course is still running: After some end-of-semester reflection and a helpful, informative meeting with my department chairperson, it occurred to me that the ABC method … Continue reading →

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Learning

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

Yesterday I completed my first official half marathon alongside my wife, who introduced me to running a few years ago (I feel comfortable blaming her for the post-race fatigue and muscle pain). I also recently finished reading Haruki Murakami’s What I … Continue reading →

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World Peace Game

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

I just saw an amazing documentary about a simulation used in a fourth grade classroom: World Peace Game. The creator, John Hunter, has been continuously using and improving this simulation for thirty-five years, and his account of his experiences has … Continue reading →

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The Success of Failure

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

A quick note to say that the quality of failure assignment that I instituted in my undergraduate courses this semester has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. The vast majority of my students responded to the assignment with great insight. In … Continue reading →

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Curriculum Design

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

It’s always a good day when you get to tell scientists that they are being unscientific. We are almost at the two year mark in a process of revising our core curriculum, and though it’s like trying to stop a … Continue reading →

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The MacGyver Mindset or Learned Helplessness?

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

Something of a response to Simon’s last post on recognizing a situation for what it is and using the tools at hand to improve it . . . It’s commonly acknowledged in online course design that no two people will … Continue reading →

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Student Teaching II

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

My experiment with getting students to teach each other content using MIT’s Visualizing Cultures project is coming to a close. Though some teams’ classroom presentations have been better than others by being more interactive, overall I think the experiment has … Continue reading →

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2014 APSA Teaching and Learning Conference

Posted on April 18, 2013 by

I know a conference in 2014 is probably the last thing many readers of this blog are thinking about at the moment — given the rapidly approaching end of the spring semester in the USA — but I would like … Continue reading →

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Four Psychologists Secretly Enter A Bar

Posted on April 15, 2013 by

For those of you out there teaching courses on political psychology, here’s a website packed with useful information: The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories The operators of the blog are four psychology doctoral students in England. Sounds like a conspiracy to … Continue reading →

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

I view sharing my hard-earned wisdom on the world with students as part my responsibility as an educator, and every semester I encounter students with ill-formed plans to attend graduate school in the social sciences, humanities, or law. When I … Continue reading →

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