Nov
9
Back to Basics: Resisting the Allure of Web Technology in the Classroom
November 9, 2009 | by Mikhail Gershovich | Leave a Comment
James Hoff, a Fellow at the Schwartz Communication Institute, just posted to the Institute’s blog a provocative argument against teaching with technology entitled “Back to Basics: Resisting the Allure of Web Technology in the Classroom.” Bellow is a snippet.
As a profession we seem to have thoughtlessly embraced the idea of technology precisely because we see [...]
Nov
4
Excelling at Excel
November 4, 2009 | by Will Millhiser | 4 Comments
Should all undergraduate business students study spreadsheet-based modeling?
For the past two years I’ve been thinking about this question, first as a member of the Provost’s Task Force for Quantitative Pedagogy, and now as a member of two follow-up efforts (the Weissman School’s “implementation committee” and the Zicklin School’s “quant group”). If you’ll bear with [...]
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