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Student Teaching
I’ve got one of my favorite subjects coming up next semester — comparative politics of Asia — and I’m going to experiment with MIT’s Visualizing Cultures (VC) curriculum. My goals are to introduce students to the scholarly interpretation of visual source … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Comparative Politics, Getting Them to Read, Group Collaboration, Presentations, Projects, Skills, Visual Media
Tagged Asia, China, India, Japan, MIT, Visualizing Cultures
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When Not Reading Is A Good Thing . . . And When It’s Bad
The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter — this is the last full week of classes this semester. While doing some preliminary grade calculations, I noticed something odd. As I’ve mentioned previously, I often structure my … Continue reading
Teaching Failure
Everyone should check out this fascinating piece on Inside Higher Ed, about how to help students learn from failure. The instructor reserves 5% of the final grade for ‘quality of failure’, assessed by a reflective essay at the end of … Continue reading
Hunger Games v. Battle Royale
In the pedagogical battle between The Hunger Games, a book (and now film) by Suzanne Collins, and the Japanese film Battle Royale, the former is the clear winner. Spoilers for both follow, so fair warning! Background: I teach a course … Continue reading
Posted in Amanda Rosen, Films and Fiction, Getting Them to Read
Tagged battle royale, fiction, film, hunger games
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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
More Thoughts On Presentations
If students are presenting on a text, I require them to at minimum identify: – the topic of the text. – the thesis of the text, and locate where in the text it is stated by the text’s author. – … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Exercises & Projects, Getting Them to Read, Group Collaboration
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Presentations in the Inverted Classroom
Interesting that the subject of student presentations has come up. Despite providing students with detailed instructions, exemplars, and advice, presentations were usually so excruciating that I simply stopped making them part of my courses. This semester I’ve reintroduced them in … Continue reading
Multi-Tasking With Reflection
Most of us would agree that reflection is an important part of the learning process. The hard part about reflective exercises is making students think about course content rather than their feelings about it. One of my colleagues in philosophy … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Chad Raymond, Exercises, Feedback & Reflection, Getting Them to Read, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Reflection
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Soomo’s Supplements
Soomo Publishing has some neat online tools that can supplement courses in international relations and American politics. They have a US Politics textbook, and then for both fields that have a neat set of supplementary exercises that are worth considering … Continue reading
The Pedagogical Utility of Half Credit
I structure most of my courses around what I call reading responses — short writing assignments on journal articles that students complete outside of class. These assignments fulfill several objectives: Students read, think, and write outside of class, making them … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Exercises, Getting Them to Read, Reading, Writing
Tagged Reading, Writing
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