Monthly Archives: October 2008
Chocolate is good for your brain!
A lovely fellow student in Neuropsychology did her presentation today on how chocolate can be good for cognition. I totally grooved on this presentation and was a bit of a loud mouth considering how important chocolate is to my life. The following is the presentation that she gave. She even spent money on a PPT [...]
What are your student’s technology education goals?
Course Goals OK… so you are teaching a technology class and you have it all planned out. Of course, you need to teach discrete steps so your students can learn how to use the software or write the code–whatever you are teaching. I have discussed planning your course with meaningful goals, such as when you [...]
My second semester teaching undergraduates
I am learning the difficulties and joys of teaching undergraduates. Many of them are young and idealistic, but at the same time they are not mature enough to realize how important and unique they are in attending a higher education institution. Many do not realize how fortunate they are and how valuable their learning is.
Creating Goals for Learning
What are Goals? It seems as though my undergrad students are having trouble deriving learning goals for their lesson plan assignment that was due Friday night. They are giving me objectives but not goals; I saw very few of 35 lesson plans that had anything similar to goals. I remember the first time I had [...]
Major Educational Goals and Significant Learning
Fink has described some major educational goals that adult educators often have for their students. The following is a table from his book that give examples of what he sees as major educational goals. Learning How to Learn How to be a better student Learning how to engage in self-regulated learning or deep learning How [...]
Does Classroom Management = Caring?
Caring is so important to learning I am preparing to lecture on how to manage classrooms behaviors tomorrow morning. This week’s learning theory flavor is Behaviorism; I am not a big fan of this theory, but it does have its uses. We are using Woolfolk’s “Educational Psychology” textbook for our required texts, and she is [...]
