Timely Snow

Reading Rockets : Ten Myths About Learning to Read

Nice summary, based largely on Phil Gough’s ideas (not that there’s anything wrong with that). I’d probably quibble a bit with #7 and #8, but to a first approximation and for instructional purposes, a useful summary of some important myths about reading.

Yesterday we had our second class on motivation. I showed an old video from the Internet Archive – Maintaining Classroom Discipline from 1947. I thought there was a pretty good discussion of issues related to discipline and motivation, although it also brought up a very interesting concept alien to my own experience as a student. [...]

Today we had our second class, which included a syllabus review (postponed from first class so students could read it first), a discussion of the aims of education and how assessment figures into determining what is taught as well as what as been learned. We use a revised version of Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives [...]

In class today I used the Don Novello/Father Guido Sarducci 5 minute university clip, which was both apt and very clever. I need to try to find the original to make a larger, better copy for next time…