Tag Archives: teaching

Study finds on-line education beats classroom, but what does that mean?

By Phi | Published: 22 Aug 09
A recent study for the Department of Education (NY Times piece; full 93-page PDF report) performed a meta-analysis of 99 students over the past 12 years, and found that students in on-line courses did slightly, but statistically significantly, better than those in traditional classrooms. It’s an interesting study, and likely to spur a whole new slew [...]
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Looking for (text)book recommendations: OS, Networking, Sysadmin; Fuzzy logic; and Refactoring

By Phi | Published: 20 Jun 09
Some deluded people believe that textbook orders for Fall Semester were due a month ago, but I’m never, ever close to on-time on these things, and am just now getting to it in a serious way. I’m teaching three courses in the fall: Models of Computing Systems Fuzzy logic and fuzzy sets Refactoring I’ve taught Refactoring several times [...]
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Huge props to kindergarten teachers

By Phi | Published: 28 May 09
I’m completely exhausted. I had the pleasure today of explaining a little bit about computers and algorithms to some kindergarteners, and it just about wiped me out :-). Timna Wyckoff (one of our biologists and mother of a kindergartener) arranged to have all the local kindergarten kids comes to the science building for 90 minutes [...]
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Buried deep enough I’ve got sand in my mouth

By Phi | Published: 28 Aug 08
I'm not dead, just swamped. It might get better. Please?
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Contemplating a major change in direction

By Phi | Published: 12 Mar 08
I'm considering changing First Year Seminar topics from American Roots Music to Global Climate Change. I have mixed feelings on the matter, and am soliciting feedback from my readers.
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Transforming our thoughts about teaching

By Phi | Published: 12 Dec 07
This wonderful little video (produced by some U of M Twin Cities mathematicians) has apparently been viewed over 1 million times now, which is a lot more views than it would ever get in class. I frequently run into faculty that are very intent on holding on to their teaching ideas and techniques, and [...]
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