Teaching techniques

Critical Pedagogy and Information Literacy

Katie Greer from Oakland University discussed critical pedagogy and critical literacy during an asynchronous session at the Lilly Conference. Greer discussed a course they teach as a general education requirement with several really useful assignments and tips! The idea of students as partners, co-creators, and new experts resonates with me! I took away these great […]
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Assignments for Performance Improvement

I watched another though-provoking session by Barry Sharpe this afternoon, from the asynchronous Lilly Conference sessions on Educational Theory and Pedagogy. Sharpe used key ideas and quotes from two great books I was able to read this year: Josh Eyler’s How Humans Learn and Flower Darby and James Lang’s Small Teaching Online. The presenter used […]
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Question marks

Questions, Generation, and Provocative Metacognition

Barry Sharpe from Western Governors University gave a thought provoking recorded talk at the Lilly Conference I was able to watch tonight as Amada fell asleep. Sharpe invokes Socrates and the teacher as a gadfly and midwife to encourage us to use practice questions that push students to overcome desirable difficulties and self-reflect on their […]
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