Tag Archives: pedagogy

Backlog Post #1: The Market Revolution, Atlantic Context, and Information Reorganization

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

While my last post ostensibly was going to open the flood-gates of a number of new posts dealing with what I’ve been working on in my classes, that plan fell through (read: baby + grad school + teaching = neglect … Continue reading →

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Got nothing to write? Might as well re-blog yourself.

Posted on October 4, 2010 by

In perusing through my RSS feed today, I noticed that ProfHacker posted their most recent installment of the Teaching Carnival, which always proves to be an interest overview of the most recent pedagogical blogging. I was delightfully surprised to discover … Continue reading →

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Discovering new “Sacrificial Lambs”: Challenging Preconceptions about “Why” we Study History

Posted on August 25, 2010 by

It’s been an exciting and rewarding first week of school thus far (and it’s only 60% over, so perhaps I should look forward to even bigger and better things, or not draw hasty conclusions…we’ll see). The reasons for the positivity … Continue reading →

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History without Homework?

Posted on August 15, 2010 by

I recently finished Alfie Kohn‘s recent book The Homework Myth and found myself intrigued by his argument and his extensive use of evidence to debunk a number of common conceptions about homework and its value. He very thoroughly challenges the … Continue reading →

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A “Sacrificial Lamb” on the Altar: “The World’s Smallest Political Quiz”

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

In my last post, I wrote about the idea of using a “sacrificial lamb” — a deeply flawed reading, assignment, and the like — in the classroom as a way to help students develop a critical sensibility. In this scenario, … Continue reading →

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Bringing a “Sacrificial Lamb” into the Classroom

Posted on July 23, 2010 by

Unfortunately, for those of you hoping to read something more gruesome than what follows, the “sacrificial lamb” I write about in this post is neither a literal lamb, nor is it some new type of technology. So, in that sense, … Continue reading →

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Graphing the teenage worldview

Posted on January 24, 2010 by

A Reformed Cantankerous Curmudgeon had an interesting post this morning about his reversion to using more traditional (read: didactic) presentation techniques in his classroom. His post got me thinking more generally about how students’ willingness (or lack thereof) to embrace … Continue reading →

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Have I missed all the tweets on this article?

Posted on January 10, 2010 by

Yesterday I got a copy of the new issue of Atlantic Monthly magazine, which features a really interesting article entitled “What Makes a Great Teacher.” The article deals with the Teach for America program and the ways in which it … Continue reading →

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“And now for something slightly lower-tech…”

Posted on January 9, 2010 by

Before the winter break I assigned my ninth grade students to write an argumentative position paper on one of three topics — an assignment described in more depth in this post. In the course of reading these papers over break, … Continue reading →

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Further MixedInk observations and follow-up, or “My slowly geminating best practices list for MixedInk”

Posted on December 24, 2009 by

Wow! I had no idea when I started writing the title to this blog post that it would quickly spiral out of control into a Victorian novel.  Well, if it were a Victorian novel, here’s what the cover would look … Continue reading →

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