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Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students - Teaching - The Chronicle of Higher Education about 9 hours ago
- But Mr. Kolb also says that the paper's bottom line is probably correct: There is no strong evidence that teachers should tailor their instruction to their students' particular learning styles. (Mr. Kolb has argued for many years that college students are better off if they choose a major that fits their learning style. But his advice to teachers is that they should lead their classes through a full "learning cycle," without regard to their students' particular styles.)
  
  "Matching is not a particularly good idea," Mr. Kolb says. "The paper correctly mentions the practical and ethical problems of sorting people into groups and labeling them. Tracking in education has a bad history."
Fortnightly Mailing: Young people's writing: Attitudes, behaviour and the role of technology - report from the National Literacy Trust about 15 hours ago
- 56% of young people said they had a profile on a social networking site, such as Bebo or Facebook. 24% said that they have their own blog. While frequently vilified in the media as ‘dumbing down’ young people’s literacy, this research shows that technology offers different writing opportunities for young people, which is seen in a link between blogging and (self-reported) writing ability and enjoyment of writing.
- oung people today use computers regularly and believe that computers are beneficial to their
  writing.
Learning to Hate Learning Objectives - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education about 16 hours ago
- Brottman's essay is a dangerous display of educational malpractice. Those who argue that principles of good assessment intrude upon teaching and learning disclose the painful fact that many educators are not adequately prepared to teach.
Learning to Hate Learning Objectives - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education about 16 hours ago
- Perhaps learning objectives make sense for most courses outside the humanities, but for me—as, no doubt, for many others—they bear absolutely no connection to anything that happens in the classroom.
- The problem is, this kind of teaching does not correlate with the assumption of my local accreditation body, which sees teaching—as perhaps it is, in many disciplines—as passing on a body of knowledge and skills to a particular audience.
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- - We talked about the ways in which the study of literature can help to develop and nurture observation, analysis, empathy, and self-reflection, all of which are essential for the practice of psychotherapy,
  - They will not achieve any "goals or outcomes." Indeed, they will not have "achieved" anything, except, perhaps, to doubt the value of terms like "achievement" when applied to reading literature.
  - To describe this as a learning objective is demeaning and reductive to all concerned.
  - except to observe certain habits of mind, nuances of thinking, an appreciation for subtleties and ambiguities of argument, and an appreciation of the capacity for empathy, as well as the need, on certain occasions, to resist this capacity. There is no reason for anyone to take the course except a need to understand more about the consciousness of others, including nonhuman animals.
    Gary Brown about 16 hours ago
    
    Ironic that the author fails to do this in relationship to his own professional responsibilities.
Learning to Hate Learning Objectives - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education about 17 hours ago
- Perhaps learning objectives make sense for most courses outside the humanities, but for me—as, no doubt, for many others—they bear absolutely no connection to anything that happens in the classroom.
- The problem is, this kind of teaching does not correlate with the assumption of my local accreditation body, which sees teaching—as perhaps it is, in many disciplines—as passing on a body of knowledge and skills to a particular audience.
The Ticker - The Chronicle of Higher Education on 2009-12-15
- The U.S. Education Department today released a report critical of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, saying the regional accrediting organization did not set minimum standards for its member institutions on program length or credit hours.
- The accreditor responded that "the fundamental concern of higher education's constituencies is whether students graduate with appropriate knowledge, skills, and competencies, not how many hours they spend in a classroom."
Practitioner Research as a Way of Knowing: A Case Study of Teacher Learning in Improving Undergraduates’ Concept Acquisition of Evolution by Natural Selection on 2009-12-15
Promising Practices Commissioned Papers Link Page on 2009-12-15
- Linking Evidence and Learning Goals
  
  Susan Singer
  
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  White Paper on Promising Practices in Undergraduate STEM Education
  
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  Practitioner Research as a Way of Knowing: A Case Study of Teacher Learning in Improving Undergraduates’ Concept Acquisition of Evolution by Natural Selection
WSU Today Online - Experiential prompt elicits intriguing content on 2009-12-14
- The bane of students everywhere, timed-writing prompts typically elicit stale, throwaway essays useful for assessing writing competency but little else, Condon said. (Read the passage below, and then, in a well-developed essay, discuss ...)
  
  But he and his graduate students argue that colleges and universities can and should use the timed-writing prompt to ask students about their own educational experiences and then mine that data for the wealth of information it will provide.
- Reading those essays changed my mind a lot about what a typical WSU student does and is,” he said. “They showed me, collectively, a side of WSU students that I think more people should see.
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- - “Asking students to write about experiences they’ve had that are important to them is a better way to test.”
  - “I think there is just a whole wealth of information in those blue-book essays that doesn’t really get tapped into too often,” said Worden,
  - While WSU Writing Programs doesn’t have the staff to do a formal analysis, Condon said he would like to see more graduate students develop research projects based on student writing.
Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education on 2009-12-14
- colleges and universities can learn from for-profit colleges' approach to teaching.
- "If disruptive technology allows them to serve new markets, or serve markets more efficiently and effectively in order to profit, then they are more likely to utilize them."
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- - Some for-profit institutions emphasize instructor training in a way that more traditional institutions should emulate, according to the report. The University of Phoenix, for example, "has required faculty to participate in a four-week training program that includes adult learning theory," the report said.
  - The committee's largest sponsors include GE, Merrill Lynch and Company, IBM, McKinsey and Company, General Motors, and Pfizer.

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CTLT and Friends

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Collections of readings and other resources for people interested in the impact of Web 2.0 on teaching and learning -- the implications for changing education (mostly higher ed, some K-12) and the implications for busting out of traditional education.