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An interesting question is posed over at Do You SoTL – how do you structure courses to encourage atudents to take responsibilty for their own learning? I think there is no quick fix, and given the pavlovian response of many students to grades, I think one of our tutorial programmes this term (in HI2001) goes some way towards answering the question. Continue reading Collateral learning I found a new, important journal in international affairs called Global Responsibility to Protect which I an strongly recommend no one uses or cites because of it has chosen to buy into a dying model of academic publication. Read on and I’ll explain why I have problems with paying $35 for an article. Continue reading Global Responsibilty to Protect – at a cost I came across a paper yesterday which, among other things, tried to relate Bloom’s Taxonomy to Nonaka’s SECI model, and I didn’t think it quote worked but it took me a bit to work out why, and I had to look at Kolb to figure it out. Continue reading Kolb, Bloom and Nonaka Action research in any form has a funny – or not funny – way of running away on you. I’ve been doing a bit of SOTL work on the wargame design task in my Hi2007 class, and next term I thought I would have a research plan to finish of my Masters in Teaching & Learning using that class. However, next term the Hi2001 tutors and I plan to roll out a new set of tutorials for Hi2001, a class which includes all the Hi2007 students, and which will change how they look on group work. I think I have a solution – read on while I think it aloud Continue reading Expanding SOTL problem I’m looking for some (moderately) radical students to help subvert the top-down model that dominates the Irish university sector. I do a quite a bit of research in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and I have a couple of things going on which I am keen to open up a bit and get some active inputs. I’m actually looking out for students who might be interested in collaborating on two projects, from offering comments all the way to co-authoring papers. One is on how history teaching in universities differs from culture to culture; the other is my ongoing work on group and team based learning using games in my military history option, HI2007. Cork city is back to it’s eighteenth century state this weekend, with the river reclaiming the old marshes and waterways that made up the city centre. Driving through town in the past few months, I had reflected on how global warming would force us to rethink how we use the buildings in the city, but I had not thought the city would have to come to terms with the new reality so suddenly. Continue reading Back to Dunscombes Marsh A national strike is planned for the 24th here in Ireland, which looks like it will shut down most of the public sector, and while everyone has a right to protest about the mess we are in, I have a right not to protest, a right to go into college and teach my scheduled classes on that day for those students who wish to attend. Continue reading Right to Work I’m back from ISSTOL09 and unpacking my luggage, physical and mental. I had a great time in Bloomington, visited several great restaurants in good company, did my paper, talked a lot with the other historians in HistSoTL which led to a long list of future SoTL projects. That work will keep me and many others busy for several years to come, so you’ll be able to read about it as it emerges, but before I start feeding laundry into the machine, I wanted to note some of the other things I brought home with me about teaching and learning Continue reading Unpacking ISSOTL09 Geert Wilders is dangerously ill-informed about the developement of liberal democracy in the West, and while I winced at his description of Islam as a ‘retarded culture’ on Sky News yesterday, I’m also appalled at his cavalier assertion that “”Our cultures, based on humanism, Judaism and Christianity, are far better than the Islamic culture.” This is to ignore how our modern freedoms were brought about by centuries of bloody struggle against the dead hand of theocracy in Europe. Continue reading “Ecrasez l’infâme” Enda Kenny’s pledge to abolish the Seanad, reported in yesterdays Irish Times, is a cheap shot at populist politics which shows why he is no better than the current crowd. There are things which can be done to reform the Seanad, and some are very easy. Continue reading Needs to do better |
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