Comments on: Teaching undergrads in the 21st century http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/07/26/teaching-undergrads-in-the-21st-century/ Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cara Mitchell http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/07/26/teaching-undergrads-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-39673 Cara Mitchell Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:09:49 +0000 http://www.crucialthought.com/?p=463#comment-39673 Hi Mr. Craft! After reading this post I can tell that you and my Intro to PR professor (the teacher for the class I created the blog for, and joined twitter) are of the same mind. I'm sure your students will love your class. Have a good semester. -Cara Mitchell Hi Mr. Craft!
After reading this post I can tell that you and my Intro to PR professor (the teacher for the class I created the blog for, and joined twitter) are of the same mind.
I’m sure your students will love your class. Have a good semester.
-Cara Mitchell

]]> By: readerdiane http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/07/26/teaching-undergrads-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-39602 readerdiane Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:22:14 +0000 http://www.crucialthought.com/?p=463#comment-39602 Didn't you love how he used a wiki with his students. I thought that was so great. Didn’t you love how he used a wiki with his students. I thought that was so great.

]]> By: Chris http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/07/26/teaching-undergrads-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-39601 Chris Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:13:16 +0000 http://www.crucialthought.com/?p=463#comment-39601 @shareski Thanks for the offer. I'd like to seriously consider this. I suspect my students are probably from around here (despite the University having more than 18,000 students) and therefore probably a bit naive as to what the rest of the world is like, let alone our neighbors to the north. Let's talk more about this... @readerdiane I'm planning to show my students that video as a matter of fact, and have them reflect on how true it is or isn't for each of them and how they anticipate helping their students overcome some of these challenges. @shareski Thanks for the offer. I’d like to seriously consider this. I suspect my students are probably from around here (despite the University having more than 18,000 students) and therefore probably a bit naive as to what the rest of the world is like, let alone our neighbors to the north. Let’s talk more about this…

@readerdiane I’m planning to show my students that video as a matter of fact, and have them reflect on how true it is or isn’t for each of them and how they anticipate helping their students overcome some of these challenges.

]]> By: readerdiane http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/07/26/teaching-undergrads-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-39600 readerdiane Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:16:44 +0000 http://www.crucialthought.com/?p=463#comment-39600 My friend and I team taught a graduate class for our district teachers. We used a Moodle to deliver part of the instruction. I would be happy to share that with you if you are interested. We were able to leave the videos and websites available for the teachers to go back and look at later. Our teachers were expected to post a blog entry and respond to 2 others. It was a little slow to get started but our teachers finally got the hang of it and it took off. I would like to point you to the You tube video down about Michael Wesch's class. He has some interesting things to say about delivering instruction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yApagnr0s&eurl=http Good luck My friend and I team taught a graduate class for our district teachers. We used a Moodle to deliver part of the instruction. I would be happy to share that with you if you are interested. We were able to leave the videos and websites available for the teachers to go back and look at later. Our teachers were expected to post a blog entry and respond to 2 others. It was a little slow to get started but our teachers finally got the hang of it and it took off.
I would like to point you to the You tube video down about Michael Wesch’s class. He has some interesting things to say about delivering instruction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yApagnr0s&eurl=http
Good luck

]]> By: Pat http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/07/26/teaching-undergrads-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-39599 Pat Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:22:01 +0000 http://www.crucialthought.com/?p=463#comment-39599 I am teaching graduate students on the university level after teaching high school for many years. I was truly surprised how much they are the same and how shocked I was that I had to give an incomplete and almost a zero to a teacher! Good luck. Sounds like a great plan. I am teaching graduate students on the university level after teaching high school for many years. I was truly surprised how much they are the same and how shocked I was that I had to give an incomplete and almost a zero to a teacher! Good luck. Sounds like a great plan.

]]> By: Dean Shareski http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/07/26/teaching-undergrads-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-39598 Dean Shareski Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:09:49 +0000 http://www.crucialthought.com/?p=463#comment-39598 Chris, I'll be teaching an undergrad class of pre-service teachers for the third time this fall. I'd be interested in possible collaboration with students. Mine is Wednesday evenings. Mostly online but we'll meet F2F at least once a month. I'll likely keep it quite similar to my course outline from last year and you can view here by using the guest login. http://learning.prairiesouth.ca/course/view.php?id=50 Chris,

I’ll be teaching an undergrad class of pre-service teachers for the third time this fall. I’d be interested in possible collaboration with students. Mine is Wednesday evenings. Mostly online but we’ll meet F2F at least once a month. I’ll likely keep it quite similar to my course outline from last year and you can view here by using the guest login.

http://learning.prairiesouth.ca/course/view.php?id=50

]]> By: Chris http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/07/26/teaching-undergrads-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-39597 Chris Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:20:17 +0000 http://www.crucialthought.com/?p=463#comment-39597 @cathyjo From a cognitive load perspective backchanneling while learning a new topic would be considered extraneous load and can be seriously damaging to the learning process. The only reason you can handle it at your conferences is because you're already mostly familiar with the material you're hearing. Being familiar with it means you've already got schema constructed through which to analyze the material. The same could be true for them and their phones. If I develop a good relationship with them on the front end, I will not have trouble with them in that sense. If I do, it's really to their own detriment and becomes and issue of disrespect. That's classroom management, really. It's not really a collegiate level position, just a Teaching Assistant (TA) position. I think I might teach another class in the Spring, which would be as an Adjunct Instructor, but I'll only have a Master's, so no professorship for me yet, if ever. @cathyjo From a cognitive load perspective backchanneling while learning a new topic would be considered extraneous load and can be seriously damaging to the learning process. The only reason you can handle it at your conferences is because you’re already mostly familiar with the material you’re hearing. Being familiar with it means you’ve already got schema constructed through which to analyze the material.

The same could be true for them and their phones. If I develop a good relationship with them on the front end, I will not have trouble with them in that sense. If I do, it’s really to their own detriment and becomes and issue of disrespect. That’s classroom management, really.

It’s not really a collegiate level position, just a Teaching Assistant (TA) position. I think I might teach another class in the Spring, which would be as an Adjunct Instructor, but I’ll only have a Master’s, so no professorship for me yet, if ever.

]]> By: Cathy Nelson http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/07/26/teaching-undergrads-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-39596 Cathy Nelson Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:16:13 +0000 http://www.crucialthought.com/?p=463#comment-39596 Oh come on -- one class -- try a backchannel. Write it in as a theory you are testing out. Which One? I have no idea. Research some theorists that might encourage it, and give it a whirl. Oh btw, in all likelihood your undergrads will be bringing in their cell phones and participating in a whole different and equally distracting back channel of their own making--regardless of how captivating I'm sure you will be. Congrats on the collegiate level position--should I call you Adjunct Professor Craft? You amaze, me ya know? Oh come on — one class — try a backchannel. Write it in as a theory you are testing out. Which One? I have no idea. Research some theorists that might encourage it, and give it a whirl. Oh btw, in all likelihood your undergrads will be bringing in their cell phones and participating in a whole different and equally distracting back channel of their own making–regardless of how captivating I’m sure you will be. Congrats on the collegiate level position–should I call you Adjunct Professor Craft? You amaze, me ya know?

]]> By: Chris http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/07/26/teaching-undergrads-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-39595 Chris Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:12:47 +0000 http://www.crucialthought.com/?p=463#comment-39595 @courosa Rest assured, I'm still planning to bug you for some counsel here! @courosa Rest assured, I’m still planning to bug you for some counsel here!

]]> By: Alec Couros http://www.crucialthought.com/2008/07/26/teaching-undergrads-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-39594 Alec Couros Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:11:27 +0000 http://www.crucialthought.com/?p=463#comment-39594 Neat, I am looking forward to hearing more about this, the process, and what you will learn. Best of luck with the course, Chris. Neat, I am looking forward to hearing more about this, the process, and what you will learn. Best of luck with the course, Chris.

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