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Tag Archives: discussion
Some Data on Baselining
This is a response to Chad’s recent post about baselining, because I’ve found it a useful practice. I pre-test in all of my intro to American courses (and have posted about it before), using a combination of the citizenship test … Continue reading
Surprise! A Simulation on Statelessness
Each week students in my introduction to international relations course are required to lead a discussion on a ‘current issue’ in international politics. Next week, the Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at my university is hosting a conference … Continue reading
Dare to Be Wrong, In Practice
Greetings from Geneva Switzerland, where I am presenting at the 18th International Humanitarian Conference, an annual event put on by my colleagues at our Geneva campus, this year on Access to Health. I had the chance to put one of … Continue reading
Posted in Amanda Rosen, Conferences, Getting Them to Talk
Tagged discussion, failure, geneva, human rights, pedagogy
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“Yes, and…”: Encouraging Students to Talk in Class
One of the key rules of improv comedy is that of ‘yes, and…’ This means that you have to accept the scene as it is laid out, and then add to it. You are never supposed to deny the scene … Continue reading
Posted in Amanda Rosen, Classroom Behavior, Getting Them to Talk
Tagged discussion, pedagogy, student engagement, talking
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Dealing with the Know-it-Alls (aka, the Hermione Monsters)
We all know this student. They are both the savior and bane of our classroom–the student we can count on to participate and break the dreaded silence from the sea of confused or uncertain faces….and the student who we can … Continue reading
Active Learning in an Eight-Week Class
I thought it might be useful to document the types and numbers of active learning exercises I use in a typical class. Active learning can become so ingrained that it becomes an essential component of lesson planning, and that has … 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
Online Educational Games: Natural Disaster Preparation with ‘Stop Disasters’
I came across a neat online resource that compiles a bunch of online games available for educators (Chang et al, 2009). Naturally I immediately started playing some of them, and I’ll share my findings here. The first game is called … Continue reading
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Tagged class activity, discussion, natural disasters, online games
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Hybrid Pedagogy
Courtesy of an (online) acquaintance, I discovered a neat (again, online) open access journal called Hybrid Pedagogy: A Digital Journal of Teaching & Technology. The journal has a lot of interesting and useful information, such as Theorizing Google Docs: 10 Tips for … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Information Literacy, Online Classes
Tagged discussion, Google Docs, hybrid, pedagogy
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