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Monday, October 3, 2016
By Natalie Allan, Assistant Director, Residence Life Services In our residence community, we are focused on the learning that takes place outside of the classroom. We wonder what should students learn as result of living in residence? What strategies should we use to promote this learning? And how will we know if they learned... More
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
By Kevin Cheung, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics Some people regard math as a black-and-white subject. Such a sentiment has a certain degree of truth. Calculus two centuries ago is still calculus today. Theorems that have been rigorously established will not become untrue in the future unless our logical foundations... More
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
By Claudia Buttera, Lab Coordinator, Department of Biology If you haven’t already heard of the absolute craze that is PokémonGo, here’s a brief overview from a non-gamer. The first Pokémon games launched in 1996 and were designed for Nintendo handhelds. The game is based on capturing, training, battling and trading virtual fictional... More
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science In my course on graphic novels and political identity, I often like to open a class session by asking students whether they “liked” the book on offer that week. As an opener, it’s a softball question that can help put at ease students who might... More
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
By Michele Hall, Educational Technology Development Coordinator, EDC The educational psychologist, John Dewey, once said, “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” In my last blog post, I wrote about my own failures at teaching today when using yesterday’s model, the lecture, and noted a few strategies... More
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
By Kevin Cheung, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics About midway through the first time I taught MATH 3801, Linear Programming, I found out that many of my students did not remember what the rank of a matrix was. The rank of a matrix is a basic concept covered in first-year linear algebra.... More
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
By Michele Hall, Educational Technology Development Coordinator, EDC The EDC’s Teaching and Learning Symposium is fast upon us, and this year’s theme—Active Engagement: Success in the Classroom and Beyond—has me reflecting on how my own teaching practice has evolved over the years, from passive to interactive, and how it continues to... More
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
By Kevin Cheung, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics AlphaGo’s recent victory over 18-time world champion Lee Sedol at the game of Go in the Google DeepMind Challenge Match stunned the world. AlphaGo is a Go-playing computer program developed by Google subsidiary DeepMind. Its victory was a big deal because many people... More
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Sometimes the course material we assign can have unexpected effects. In my fourth-year seminar on graphic novels and political identity, I have allowed my syllabus to stray from a narrow view of my discipline. So while we study works on such topics as the Holocaust,... More
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science When teaching controversial topics, particularly the kind that are known in everyday discourse to be polarizing, the question of professor “bias” is sometimes raised. Does every professor necessarily have a bias, and if so, is bias something that should be disclosed to... More
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
By Hugh Reid, Adjunct Research Professor, Department of English Language and Literature My first blog about English 4115, Culture and the Text, (but which I refer to as my ‘Rare Books’ course) was about the excitement students feel when handling 200-year-old books and trying to solve the mysteries of their materiality contained therein. The... More
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
By Jessica Lynch, Contract Instructor, School of Linguistics and Language Studies Part 1: Before the first class Joining the workforce after having been a full-time student for as long as I can remember is a little scary. Like any other major event or decision in life, it comes down to you finding a fit... More
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