Laughter Through Tears
Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. The character of Truvey Jones in Robert Harling’s "Steel Magnolias" A friend recently commented that he’s at the point in life where he’s…
Teaching, Learning, & Environment: Shifting Perspectives
by Dan Apple During my Keynote Address at a Professional Development Symposium, I asked teams of the 130 participants to reflect on three aspects of successful teaching and learning and…
FeedBACK or FeedFORWARD?
At Pacific Crest and in Process Education, we generally divide feedback into ASSESSEMENT-based and EVALUATION-based. The first is about improving performance; the latter about judging performance. As paradigms go, it…
What’s My Motivation?
This is the stereotypical phrase that the would-be actor asks the director in order to breathe life into the character. What motivates this character? What makes them tick? What matters…
Clueless and Confident vs. Self-Validation of Learning
Dunning and Kruger, authors of the eponymous Dunning-Kruger Effect (Illusory Superiority) suggest that, across many intellectual and social domains, it is the poorest performers who hold the least accurate assessments…
MY LIFE
Starring YOU Directed by YOU with Screenplay by YOU We use many different metaphors for the living our lives: Weaving a tapestry (it has a larger pattern that emerges over…
Is Simply LETTING Our Students Fail Enough?
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. Michael Korda Professor Vinit Desai (University of Colorado Denver Business School), says that…
A Time of Monsters
We’ve shared ideas for how to make AI largely irrelevant within a college classroom, but also want to share our thoughts on making use of Artificial Intelligence as a learning…
Kickin’ it Old School
(Course Design with AI in Mind, Part 2) If we agree with Rina Bliss, professor of sociology at Rutgers University, when she writes “…while AI can assist in getting information…
Course Design with AI in Mind (part 1)
We’re hardly the first to tackle this subject and we won’t pretend to have all the answers. But there are a few things we’re relatively sure of, the most critical…