In a 21st century world where just about any data is available at your fingertips at any time, memorizing information is a skill that few people need any more. I’m not one of those faculty who bemoans the loss of memorization skills (though I can still remember many of the Latin conjugation forms I learned in high school, and would […]
» Read moreTrent Batson is a colleague who is always several steps ahead of me and I love his Campus Technology article, “10 Rules of Teaching in this Century“. If we really read and understood and debated all the suggestions of this article, we would know pretty much everything we need to know about teaching with technology today. It’s a short, sweet […]
» Read moreFor the last few Boot Camps I’ve made a passing mention of “digital citizenship” just to ask the question of whether or not we are addressing it sufficiently in higher education. The example I always use is to ask the question of whether or not our students are prepared to vote on questions having to do with electronic voting machines. […]
» Read moreJudithTabron.com is undergoing a new incarnation. This is my severalth WordPress installation but it still may take a while before I have everything as it should be. Please feel free to browse and be patient while I figure out how to either mirror content here from http://facultycomputing.blogspot.com or consolidate. Thanks for visiting!
» Read moreAt the first Boot Camp in 2006, recipients received laptops (presaging the laptops we were able to offer to all full-time faculty members beginning in 2007). I don’t want to tell any stories out of school, because what happens in Boot Camp stays in Boot Camp, but it’s fair to say that mobile computing was new for those first few […]
» Read moreA faculty member I’ve been working with from time to time over the years stopped by to tell me how her tech-enhanced class went. She’s adding some online activity to the class instead of some of the face-to-face time. For her, students were willing to do a harder reading and an assignment based on the reading – as long as […]
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