The midden » powerpoint http://sumdy.edublogs.org education, technology, change Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:02:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Top 10 worst teaching mistakes http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2009/09/25/top-10-worst-teaching-mistakes/ http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2009/09/25/top-10-worst-teaching-mistakes/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:45:54 +0000 Will Stewart http://sumdy.edublogs.org/?p=151 One of the characteristics of HE teaching is that lecturers tend to teach in the way they were taught when they were undergraduates.  So if they were taught by inspirational teachers who saw the value of teaching, they are more likely to focus on inspiring their own students. If they were taught by lecturers who were teaching under duress and saw it as a distraction from their research, they are more likely to inflict the same on their own students. Moving this latter group into the former is a major challenge for those involved in teaching the teachers.

Richard Felder’s web site is aimed at providing help to HE lecturers who find themselves in a teaching role, but without any training. Although aimed specifically at Science and Engineering lecturers, many of the resources are applicable to a wider audience.

In his “Random Thoughts,” column on educational methods and issues for the quarterly journal Chemical Engineering Education he writes on a whole range of issues facing today’s HE lectures and provides valuable guidance on how to deal with them.

His two papers on the Top 10 worst teaching mistakes is a good starting point. This is a useful list as it not only identifies bad practice in HE teaching but also puts forward some helpful suggestions for avoiding these.

]]> http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2009/09/25/top-10-worst-teaching-mistakes/feed/ 0 Making it happen: teaching the technology generation http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2008/07/07/making-it-happen-teaching-the-technology-generation/ http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2008/07/07/making-it-happen-teaching-the-technology-generation/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:11:44 +0000 Will Stewart http://sumdy.edublogs.org/?p=114 This is a video of my presentation to the JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire & Humber on June 10th at Bradford University. The sub-title of the presentation was Beyond “no significant difference”, on the basis that, in education, we use technology to do things the same way as we have always done rather than use it to do things differently. The theme of the presentation was that we, the teachers, rather than our students, are the technology generation. Because the use of digital technology has been completely normalised and fully integrated by our students, they don’t see it as technology. They are the “no technology generation”, and it is us who need to be taught how to use it in ways that engage our students and make their education relevant.


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