- Nov 2016
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www.literacyworldwide.org www.literacyworldwide.org
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Instead of teaching how to use a hashtag and how to tweet and retweet, I give my students meaningful tasks to help their learning. (Twitter plays a large role in my teaching, but the essential elements can be applied in many technological contexts.)
I like the idea Bali has with this. Prof. Station has been doing similar things by asking us to engage in discussion over twitter, using the hashtag #FYS156. I think it is a very effective way to communicate and express ideas to a wide variety of people. It is also easy to see other people's thoughts and opinions to perhaps gain insight on today's issues.
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- Oct 2016
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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The researchers emphasize that these are only correlations. Although they controlled for some aspects of students’ backgrounds, such as the education levels of their parents, it’s possible that other factors are responsible as well.
GROUP: Three things we felt were worth mentioning in the article was the emphasis that other factors may contribute to academic success such as extracurricular activities, education levels of their parents, and their attitudes towards education. It is also worth noting that there are people that learn to work around these characteristics and can still achieve success. The biggest determining factor in our eyes is attitude, as it can essentially dictate all thoughts and decisions an individual makes.
Link to YouTube video with key tips on mastering the issue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apOBPsAHxYU
Video regarding attituvde - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN34FNbOKXc
Article with 15 tips for college success - http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/professors-guide/2009/08/19/15-secrets-of-getting-good-grades-in-college
Our group consists of Kiley, Mailey, and Melissa.
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crookedtimber.org crookedtimber.org
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but all the time, instead of discussing the much less interesting things that make up small talk.
I don't see why everybody is so self conscious about talking about school topics outside of the classroom. My friends and I talk about our classes with one another all the time and some very interesting and intelligent discussions come from it. All it takes is being a good listener and eventually an opinion will form within you. It's okay to ask questions too. There's no shame in being uninformed, so long as you want to learn.
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even if they have done the reading which, frequently, they haven’t, there being no penalty to not doing it, or reward for doing it, in lecture-based classes. [1]
This resonates with me because I have been through college classes already where I haven't done a lick of reading, yet I'm able to come to class with almost no worry at all that I wouldn't be able to keep up with the discussion. I know that all professors are aware that not all students complete the assigned reading, it was very comical to hear one say that bluntly though.
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The best students did the reading, and were on top of what was going on; and many of the rest remained confused, often because they hadn’t done the reading, but sometimes even when they had. This was clear in their writing, which I graded, and was often quite confused even though they had been in class and section.
I've been in both pairs of shoes here. That is, I've been confused with and without the reading. It is sometimes difficult to keep up with much of the complex diction used in college text books and required readings in the form of novels. What many students fail to do is bridge the gap between what they're reading and the meaning to it. The words just bounce off of their eyes like in a cartoon.
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I was a voracious reader and an intent listener. I used to (from age 4 at the latest) demand that my parents let me go to bed early so that I could listen to the radio (not music – but Radio 4: documentaries, comedies plays and, when I was 9, a 13×1 hour radio dramatization of Nicholas Nickleby, on Sunday evenings. By the time I was in college, listening to someone talk about philosophy for an hour was almost effortless – I did the reading, listened carefully, and took extensive notes. I also wrote a weekly essay… So who needed classroom discussion?
Simply put, I need the classroom dicussion. As a kid growing up, I never really took notes or wrote much, but I was all about the class discussion. They say everyone learns differently and some people learn better through conversation. I am certainly one of those people. It is through dialect and critical thinking I am able to learn.
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- Sep 2016
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www.historytoday.com www.historytoday.com
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Nothing can replace prolonged consideration of the records themselves and the problems of correctly identifying people in the past are enormous.
I liked the way this was worded. Indicates to me that society is perhaps beginning to value qualitative data over quantitative in regards to the social sciences.Very interesting to think about which is more important to each field of science.
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- Aug 2016
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berkeleyjournal.org berkeleyjournal.org
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The list of others influenced by Du Bois is long. It extends to Gunnar Myrdal, whose book An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) influenced Supreme Court decisions and became a social science classic.
I like this part because it sparked an idea in my thinking. I'd be curious to see whether or not Du Bois was given credit in any of Myrdal's works, due to the fact that an entire university overlooked his contribution to Sociology.
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