Reading: Mistral’s Kiss, by Laurell K. Hamilton (A guilty pleasure) Listening: Stadium Arcadium, RHCP I’ve been doing some thinking about what it means to teach at BRCC, which is hard to do without any experience there yet. I can make some… Read more
An article about contemporary students’ sense of entitlement is all over the Canadian papers today. It cites a UC Irvine study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. The article discusses how entitled today’s students feel. Here are some… Read more
In order to analyze teamwork, I have the students in my classes do various silly activities that I’ve stolen from people or from websites here and there. One of my favorite is the spaghetti marshmellow tower. After building the tower, the students… Read more
Today and yesterday were great teaching days. We are in the argumentation section of the book. I explained to students that this was hard but that I was confident they could get it. After the lecture and a couple of examples of each type of… Read more