http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teachingblog Discussions on techniques and practices for effective college teaching across disciplines Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:09:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_2804" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Cartoon from Paul Silli's blog post "Why Should School Districts Invest in Technology." "][/caption] 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 ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teachingblog/2009/11/09/back-to-basics-resisting-the-allure-of-web-technology-in-the-classroom/ 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”). ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teachingblog/2009/11/04/excelling-at-excel/ The following is a guest post from Arthur Lewin, Associate Professor, Department of Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College. He can be reached at Arthur.Lewin@baruch.cuny.edu. What does pedagogy and mathematical physics have in common? The Uncertainty Principle. Physics informs us it is impossible to accurately determine both the position and ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teachingblog/2009/10/26/guest-post-to-teach-or-to-grade-that-is-the-question/ The following is a guest post from Arthur Lewin, Associate Professor, Department of Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College. He can be reached at Arthur.Lewin@baruch.cuny.edu. We all have been there, and we would all like our students to go. Most, however, know next to nothing about graduate school since they ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teachingblog/2009/10/09/guest-post-why-not-tell-them-about-grad-school/ On September 22, 2009, we held the first of a three-part series on teaching with case studies. In the interest of furthering the discussion, I've tried to summarize questions that were raised by panelists and audience members. We'd be delighted to hear your comments. Thanks to all who contributed. If the ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teachingblog/2009/09/29/teaching-with-cases/ The Schwartz Communication Institute's Luke Waltzer just posted to cac.ophony an interesting discussion of one of our most ambitious projects to date, the introduction of student blogging into every section of Freshman Seminar. In Luke's words, "every Freshman Seminar at Baruch currently is blogging. That’s roughly 60 sections, populated ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teachingblog/2009/09/25/freshbloggers/ When I left industry to be a teacher in the mid 1990s, I took a class on "mathematics teaching methods" at a local college. The instructor, now the Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Richard Evans to whom I owe much gratitude, taught that prior to an exam, one should give students ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teachingblog/2009/09/22/the-study-guide/ Those of you familiar with cac.ophony, the Schwartz Communication Institute's blog, know that our Fellows consistently offer intelligent, insightful commentary on a host of topics including, teaching, technology, communication, culture and media. Below is a recent post on teaching with blogs by Hillary Miller, which has gotten a fair share ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teachingblog/2009/09/15/lessons-from-a-first-time-course-blogger/ The following is a guest post from Arthur Lewin, Associate Professor, Department of Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College. He can be reached at Arthur.Lewin@baruch.cuny.edu. Why not tap into our great strength and distinction, our diversity? From 2001 to 2009 Baruch College has been ranked number one in the nation, ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teachingblog/2009/09/09/guest-post-why-not-tap-into-our-greatest-asset/ Last night my executive MBA class discussed the case study "Deaconess-Glover Hospital" about a Massachusetts healthcare system that made significant improvements using the Toyota Production System. But before this column digresses into a "how do we improve healthcare?" debate, I'd like to share seven sentences Dr. Steven J. Spear wrote ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/teachingblog/2009/09/04/the-sound-of-silence/