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Articles of Interest

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Here is a list of articles we've used in class, or are related to class discussions:

 

Critical Thinking

 

Learning and Motivation, pt I: Abandoning existing beliefs

 

Learning and Motivation, part II: Falling without getting hurt

 

Learning and Motivation, part III: The illusion of comprehension

 

A page of resources for teaching critical thinking

 

TEACHING CRITICAL THINKING: SOME LESSONS FROM COGNITIVE SCIENCE

 

Critical Thinking:

"A Statement of Expert consensus for Purposes of Educational Assessment and Instruction"

This is the 2007 update to the 1990 report. The original was designed by a slate of people considered experts in critical thinking

 

 

Understanding How Students' Think

 

Why Students Lose Confidence

Tomorrow's Professor, #909: "By mid-way through their first semester, the bases students used to judge their potential success had changed. Instead of citing challenges they had faced and assessing how they had performed, they were most influenced by how they compared with their peers. Some comparisons were based on how fast they could learn new material or complete assignments."

 

The so-called "digital divide"--Pro

 

Marc Presky: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (pt.1) PDF

 

Marc Presky: Do They REALLY Think Differently? Neuroscience Says Yes (Digital Natives, pt. 2) PDF

 

The so-called "digital divide"--Con

 

Generational Myth: Not All Young People are Tech Savvy

 

The `digital natives' debate: A critical review of the evidence

 

Digital natives and immigrants: A concept beyond its best before date

 

  

Course Design

 

Dee Fink on Significant Learning

This page links to his 33 page, "Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning" (available both as PDF and Word document).  This is a great overview of the "backward course design" model.

 

Building Cognitive Assemblies: An Exercise in Course Design

Tomorrow's Professor #905

 

Teach Philosophy 101

This is a site designed to help those who plan to teach Introduction to Philosophy Courses, but most of the information available here is useful for course planning (and running a course) for most disciplines.  Check out the "crash course" link on the intro page.

 

Teaching a Workshop on Effective and Innovative Course Design

Contains a lot of information, including a tutorial.

 

Teaching Goals Inventory

Angelo & Cross

 

Course Design Tip Sheet

 

 

Collaborative Learning

 

Active Learning in Lectures: Alternatives for Making

Teaching in Large Classes Interactive  VIDEO

Read this page, and at the bottom are a number of links. Please watch the

video labelled, "Active Learning in Lectures: Alternatives for Making

Teaching in Large Classes Interactive" (it's easier to read the slides if

you make the screen larger (select the 2x button when you move the mouse

over the picture).

 

PDF: Designing Effective Group Activities: Lessons for Classroom Teaching and Faculty Development

 

Other videos of team-based learning

 

  

Syllabi for Other Teaching Courses

PHI 801 (Michigan State University) Seminar on Teaching Philosophy

This is an interesting course on teaching philosophy.  Somewhat like UNI 600, but including discipline-specific information.

 

 

Syllabi for Intro to Philosophy Courses

APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy Online Resource Center

See the links on the left--they keep a bank of syllabi

 

 

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