Pedagogy Matters

By Jonah Lehrer, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. This bookmark points to the Worldcat record, which will direct you to alternate editions, as well as the closest library with a copy of this book.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread. Instructor also mentions that this is "a great piece of writing."

By Stanley Milgram, as it appeared in Harper's Magazine. Abridged and adapted from Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram, 1974.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread.

A website "written, drawn, and coded by Matthew Inman" and made up of comics, quizzes, and stories.

From the thread Faculty Skills and Attributes: Adaptability, this site was recommended for their "lovely grammar resources."

By Terrie E. Moffitt, Louise Arseneault, Daniel Belsky, Nigel Dickson, Robert J. Hancox, HonaLee Harrington,Renate Houts, Richie Poulton, Brent W. Roberts, Stephen Ross, Malcolm R. Sears, W. Murray Thomson,and Avshalom Caspi in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), 2011, vol 108 (7), pp 2639-2640. Full-text PDF is available from this page.

Contributed to the Faculty Skills and Attributes: Adaptability thread in the context of "how my courses can be flexible and yet teach the skills for success."

Eric Berlow on Ted (Talks in Less than 6 Minutes series). Posted November, 2010. Ecologist doesn't feel overwhelmed when faced with complex systems. He knows that more information can lead to a better, simpler solution. Illustrating the tips and tricks for breaking down big issues, he distills an overwhelming infographic on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan to a few elementary points.

By Andy Lapham, Faculty of the Arts, Thames Valley University, London, UK. This paper from the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on e-Learning includes literature review and presents a cognitive analysis of tagging.

"The Education Commission of the States (ECS), in collaboration with Knowledge in the Public Interest (KPI), Policy Research on Preparation, Access and Remedial Education (PREPARE) at the University of Massachusetts Boston, seeks to leverage developmental education at postsecondary institutions as a critical component of state efforts to increase college attainment rates through Getting Past Go. The national initiative will help education policy leaders align state and system policy to increase the college success of the large percentage of students enrolled in postsecondary education who require remedial and developmental education."

By Jim Shelton and John Easton of the U.S. Education Department. The authors blogged as part of the National Journal's Expert Blogs - Education area. In the initial post, Shelton and Easton post some questions about effective innovation. In the comments section (24 posted as of 4/1/10), others in the field respond.

From TED.com

Charles Leadbeater We Think video on YouTube.

By Charles Leadbeater. This is the web page for the We-think project, and includes downloads for chapters 1-3, as well as links to other materials related to the book (including an early draft).

By Gail O. Mellow and Cynthia Heelan (2008) This page is the announcement of the book from LaGuardia Community College and the text/video of Dr. Mellow's lecture for the Robert H. Atwell lecture.

Trudy Smoke, Published in Journal of Basic Writing, Vol 20, No 2 Fall 2001, pages 88-96. This bookmark is to the citation in ERIC. Article is available through the ProQuest Research Library database.

By Jane Magruder Watkins and Bernard J. Mohr. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2001. GSCC utilizes an AI approach to working together. There is a new edition of this book being published next month. This link goes to the title on Worldcat where you can locate a copy in a library.

By Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963, as posted by the African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread.

A documentary produced by Centillion Productions Ltd. in association with CBC-TV (Canadian Broadcasting), first broadcast Feb 2010. From this page, you can download the full documentary (45 minutes) or the 30 second trailer.

Part of an assignment in a course described in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread. Students were allowed to select a documentary of interest, and the documentary selected was Google World.

Movie-making software available through the cloud (e.g. to everyone; free registration required).

One Jammer uses this site with her students; discussed in the Student Context: Community thread.

From the Academic Support Center of Cuesta College. Strategies for student success. For similar, see tag success.

Liz shared this in Instructional Strategies:Reflection/Meta-cognition

On Virginia Western Community College website

Liz shared this in Instructional Strategies:Reflection/Meta-cognition

Posted online by Dr. Norman E. Cameron, Professor of Economics and Fellow of St. John's College.

Shared in Instructional Strategies:Reflection/Meta-cognition