Tear Down This Wall! – Decoding K-16
We can be as divided by invisible walls as by those made of stone. They limit our movements and deny us access to all that lies on the other…
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November 12, 2019
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
The Shame Factories of Academia
The look of utter horror on the faces of my luncheon companions was only visible for an instant, before they reestablished their habitual control over their emotions. But in…
September 9, 2019
Beyond the Autopsy
Several years ago in a workshop in Liverpool, Gregor Novak, the founder of Just-in-Time Teaching, commented that in most courses the final exam is like an autopsy – it…
August 26, 2019
A Game of Chess
I have never been very proficient at the art of chess. The one time that I tried to remedy this lack by reading a work on the subject the…
July 8, 2019
Decoding Art Anxiety
Arranging Victories for Students Confronted with images like many of those on this page, some students are as confused as I was by the equations of Professor Brown. But in…
May 24, 2019
Lost in Lecture
DECODING CULTURAL CAPITAL “How hard is it to raise one’s hand, to approach an instructor after class, or to come to office hours to discuss a difficult assignment?” Let’s…
April 20, 2019
Confessions of a D Student (Part 2)
But the saga of Math 100, described in the previous entry, was not over. There was a final piece of the story to be revealed. At my fiftieth high school reunion I…
April 9, 2019
Confessions of a D Student (Part 1)
If there is a hero to this story, it is David Sunquist, a young high school math teacher, who volunteered in the spring of 1962 to teach a handful of…
April 7, 2019