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- Kyra Gaunt
- New York, NY
- United States
Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Assoc.Professor, Kyraocity Works
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How does the status quo design of student - faculty interactions diminish innovation in the classroom? How to hack higher ed?
This Live Conversation with TED Fellow Kyra Gaunt will open on June 15th, 1pm EDT.
Note: Conversation has been extended until June 17th.
There are many TED talks about innovation in education, but most focuses on K-12 education. There are also amazing talks about breaking the code on our relationship to work, to learning, and to our application of knowledge (aka wisdom).
Students call me Professor G. I am a professor of anthropology, ethnomusicology and racism studies. I am also a 2009 TED Fellow. My students in cultural anthropology are interested in engaging the TED community in a conversation around how to hack the design of the higher ed classroom where emerging adults and their supposed mentors, if a design was scalable, could truly become the consumers of their own productivity as students.
My aim as a professor is to help students realize they are great students, great citizens and great human beings NOW not after graduation.
To truly explore this question, we need diverse perspectives and we intend to discover the power of extending the classroom beyond its four walls with a weekly TED conversation around a question related to hacking the higher ed classroom.
What if the classroom interactions were designed for sustainability, for curiosity, and for innovating thinking? What would we talk about? What could we talk about? And wouldn't we talk about anymore?
Consider grading (but we do need so way to measure accurate thinking). Consider the power dynamics of the student-teacher conversation around grades, assignments, and dialogue. And consider the role of the repositories of knowledge and experience that often goes unnoticed, the students themselves.
Do we need textbooks anymore? Would Google and the students' experience be enough in an anthropology or social science course? #justaskin
Also consider issues of ethnic and gender representation relative to issues of power and training emerging adults to be leaders in a globalizing world.
Jun 15 2012: I got so many great ideas from this. I feel empowered!Jun 15 2012: Linda, I hear what you're saying about letting students know that they are not great. (I even wrote a quick HuffPost article called Why University Students Arent' Amazing Anyone and What They Can Do About it in response to their constant need to distract themselves with Facebook despite my best efforts at engaging them.) I think it's important that students get that message but know you are coming from a point of caring and encouragement that they could be amazing and stand out in this world.
Jun 15 2012: I use FB in my class to avoid a lot of that distraction.
Linda Taylor
Jun 15 2012: Yeah, I use FB, twitter, online platforms, linked in, PDA, electronic text, data bases, you tube links. yada yada etc etc. But NONE of it replaces accountability. You either know it or you don't.
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You bet I care. I care enough to have a do-over if they need it. And I encourage and support. I am available to help. But the work is theirs. Like Yoda said, "Do or do not. There is no try."Jun 15 2012: Hi. I'm studying oline for my MA, with two visits a year to the college. I'm a bit charged from just finishing exams and end of term papers, but I was excited to notice that you're having these important conversations. Please excuse if my intonation feels hardened in any way. This is one of my concerns about higher ed. I don't like the on-line format of my program but it has the research I need to follow what I feel is being called to me in my life's work. I find it very hard to stay healthy but I couldn't afford to do the MA any other way. Although my cohort members and I work on holistic health while we work, I have always felt that universities don't structure programs well to support holistic rhythms and balances. I find this especially hard on my female seratonin-uptake neurological system. Feminist research has shown a correlation between the uptake system in women and eating disorders and depression. It shows a very different uptake system for men, and it makes sense that women would have a very different need in a system of higher ed to accommodate their very different experience, even physically. I am in a qualitative and quanititive program which helps somewhat. I am 50, and waited 25 years to find a program that would actually offer some balance for my gender physiology. I don't feel that I've really found it but time is running out for me. Has anyone else had this sense or concern about how to bring holism into higher academia?
Jun 15 2012: Yiana, I am SO INTO what you are speaking about. THAT is the sustainable classroom concerns I am speaking to without taking about health and wellbeing with my students. What it means to be a great citizen and a great human being starts with listening for what empowers the whole person. Including wellness. I have such stories to tell. I think we could prevent tragedies like Virginia Tech from happening if we were more sensitive.Jun 15 2012: I guess I would consider myself a wayward doctoral student. The major reason for my leave of absence was not academics, rather relationships and trying to navigate the politics of the academy. Along with a Master's degree and teaching experience in my field, I felt as thought I came with a set of life experiences that grounded me to do this kind of work. I was as much of a grown woman then, as I am now. But I have never been spoken to as I experienced at that institution. I struggled to not come off as an angry black country woman when I felt disrespected and undervalued. When you know that no one has your back at your institution what else do you do? How do you respond to director who tells you that they know what's best for you? Excuse me, the last time I checked I was a grown woman and I have a mom. What do you do when the work you're trying to do is not valued? I decided to walk away after being told that I and my work was a long shot. What I've found is that there are scholars out there who do support the kind of work I'm doing and also promote self-care and innovation.
This is a very timely conversation. I walked away because I just didn't believe in higher ed at the time. I did not enter a program and take a loan to be beat down, especially when I know that I do good work. I thought to myself, I could still be a writer and scholar without a PhD. But what about the students that are to come and need someone who values radical and transformative education? Without addressing the power dynamics between teachers and students and students and administrators, things like this will continue to happen. Simply put, I'm a human being first; grown black woman second, and student last. I expect to be treated as such.
When we discuss intersectionality, oppressions, and privileges, we often talk about race, class, and gender. Age usually falls on the end. If maturity has nothing to do with age, we must find a way to reconcile our educational politics to reflect such.
Jun 15 2012: I so hear ya Salandra!! This is my take on the sustainable classroom. Student-as-adult. Esp. emerging students but also that we faculty are emerging in our thoughts about you and we are not fully-grown in our social sustainability skills for life not just classroom. I tried to leave academia for same reasons but i LOVE teaching emerging and grown adults.Jun 15 2012: I wrestle with finding the balance between encouraging innovation/experimentation and having them produce work that has actual value.Jun 15 2012: Here it is. It's written from my own experiences
Jun 15 2012: Thank you! I enjoyed that. I must learn more about class wikis. I have not taught in a couple of years but hope to be again for the Fall semester.
Jun 15 2012: If you need assistance with that Isidra, just contact me.Jun 15 2012: I teach a few classes (two quite large) at Michigan State including Visual Communication and The Creative Process. I just wrote a HuffPost article on five uses for Twitter in large lecture courses and I want to find even more ways to personally engage my students.
Jun 15 2012: Great Karl! I am a grad of U of Mich and taught there as grad student in early 90s. I teach adults who are taking my Cultural Anthro course but I am an ethnomusicologist and teach about racism to classes of 30 and 95.Jun 15 2012: Where's the link to your essay. Pls share!!Jun 15 2012: What are you learning from using Twitter in your class about who your students are and about their engagement with innovation? Curious.Jun 15 2012: Thank you all for joining in!! I think this was a great starter convo. Lots of issues raised by visitors. I hope you follow me on Twitter at @kyraocity or FB @Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D. and we can continue the conversation. Would you be interested in an #highered chat on Twitter?
Jun 15 2012: Higher ed chat: sure!
Jun 15 2012: There may already be one but I realize from this convo, it needs to be real time. Find me on Twitter @kyraocity and let's do it.Jun 15 2012: Diminishing people is easy. One professor told me that it wasn't his job to 'engage' his students. He says his lectures give them the information they need and if they choose not to absorb it that wasn't his problem. I suggested he might save himself the trouble and just put a tape recorder out.
I see teaching as somewhat parallel to parenting or managing a dept at a company. The instructor is in charge and sets the tone, and there are many things they can do to uplift students, to encourage participation and growth using simple rules like praising in public, criticizing in private.
Jun 15 2012: we just talked (2 sections of 20 adults) about "who's in charge" and how that shows up in who can move and how in the classroom (doing ethnographic work on ourselves in a way) and who gets to define just about everything even in so called innovative classes.Jun 15 2012: You know, I tested out of so many courses that I know I don't even need that professor. Give me a syllabus and a text, and I can pretty much test out of anything. So he is partially right and you are partially right.
Jeremy Cull
Jun 15 2012: To respond about the Ken Robinson videos, I think it would be a good idea to allow the student come up with his/her own assessment task, as long as it is approved by the teacher as being rigorous enough. The important thing is that the curriculum does not enforce a "one size fit all" model; emphasizing an inventive as apposed to an analytical approach.
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Personally I would like to see more of the Socratic method used like it is in law school, but perhaps giving the student the option to discuss the subject later in private instead of in front of everyone else; what often prevents class participation is the other students. I think the immediate feedback for defending their line of thought on the spot is extremely important, and could be employed more often.
Jun 15 2012: I used a socratic style along with improvising off what students share to point to things we are supposed to be learning anyhow. Yesterday's lesson was how language shapes thought. Great readings but analysing the text is boring. Analyzing ourselves dealing with language -- now that gets interesting. We talked about gender and the how boys are taunted by being called pussy . My classes are ethnically diverse so had to explain what "cunt" was for Chinese students or new immigrants for whom such language is not relevant.
Jun 15 2012: I definitely see the value in including the other students in the conversation, diversity and the shock factor can really can be quite effective. I also think you make a good point to establish a valuable relevance to the material, perhaps this is what makes something inventive. I think generally teachers have some recognition of all of this and many already regularly do this, but now it becomes an issue of how do you make it more conducive universally? What prevents this from happening all of the time? To be fair though, it does happen.Jun 15 2012: Educational insitutions should find means of intergrating the benefits of the online medium to the learning experience.
Classroom interactions provides means of sharing ideas among scholars and to gain from the diversity of perspectives.
Online interactions via a 'meeting' webpage could broaden the scope of scholar participation and raise fresh questions.
But without a doubt the internet has changed with way learning is done in recent years, and schools will do well to find ways to benefit immensely from this.
Now a lot can be learnt via online textbooks, online videos and even self-proclaimed professionals.
Jun 15 2012: Thanks for joining Feyisayo! How does this spark innovation (whatever that means to you) and you, I assume, Learned in a classroom? How did that diminish what you now see online learning provides? Curious.
Jun 15 2012: It does not diminish innovation. It enhances it when properly utilized.
Linda Taylor
Jun 15 2012: Interesting. My job as a professor is to do an attitude adjustment in my students to make sure they understand they are NOT great. The product of the k-12 leave no child behind has resulted in students that think they can just show up and pass a class. They want to know WHAT IS ON THE TEST! And they are aghast that I don't give it to them. That is the cumulative result of standardized testing. Time for reality check. This is college you better know it or I will see you next semester.
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Jun 15 2012: Thanks for sharing your view Linda> I teach them they are great and empower them to fulfill on that with their actions not feelings about themselves. I do a lot of correcting "Oh, great one. let's try that again!" using a lot of play, enticement and challenge but not of individuals. I am trying to teach HOW culture works by using our own interactions as models. We do and don't adapt to our greatness.
Jun 15 2012: Yes of course but that happens later. You MUST set the bar first before you can help the student achieve it. I am limited in innovation by the courses I teach. The program is heavily test based because the program ends in board licensure. A huge part of what I do is help students learn how to study and how to pass a test. And I have taught upper division courses.
I think part of the problem is that you cannot compromise innovation for accountability. That always needs to be part of higher ed. Accountability and integrity
Jun 15 2012: I am not sure of that "setting the bar" thing. At least who sets it is up for debate. Why not ask the students as emerging adults to do it?Jun 15 2012: You said, "Oh, great one. let's try that again!"
What would be your thought process if those words came out of the surgeon instructing the doctor performing a procedure on your mother? Nobody is playing.
My students must become accomplished learners and quickly. They must know more than I can teach. In an average semester I am teaching out of 5000 pages of text in just 2 course. Yes 5K. They must have outstanding study skills and I need to measure their mastery and hold them accountable. That is a huge part of my accountability to my discipline. The bar is set by my discipline and translated into the classroom.
Or as I said, I'll see you next semester.
Innovation in my discipline is centered around simulation. High fidelity mannequins to assist the student in application of knowledge. We are finding limitations in the use outside of psychomotor application. It is useful iin the complex management of patients with multiple comorbidities but has limitations in the actual learning of content. I have seen some fabulous affective phenomena in students during simulation. Students crying after the mannequin 'dies' because of their error. The debriefing has to be done very carefully and the student must be assisted to frame the experience within the context of practice.Jun 15 2012: Better question: How are we diminishing people with our design between student-faculty?Jun 15 2012: So many of my fellow professors call female students 'girls.' I and others call them women, and for some of the undergrad students I get the feeling that isn't something they're used to, but they like it and it sends a message to them that we see them as mature adults. I have huge respect for my students just because they're on this planet.
Jun 15 2012: Too many profs and students themselves refer to students as "kids" and I wonder from a linguistic standpoint of cultural learning how much that is affecting the environment in academia and in classrooms. We need to watch our words from our mouths as much as we attend to them on paper.
Jun 18 2012: In my opinion it affects the environment a lot. If students are being called: "kids" they might have notion that the professor doesn't treat them seriously. It is interesting that even students sometimes refer to themselves as "kids". Probably it happens because they don't feel as adults (at least in school). An easy example might be attendance. Professors check the attendance with great scrutiny (at least in public colleges) which indicates lack of trust. Since college is for adults the perception should be that "I don't have to take attendance because they are all responsible and they go to college to expend their knowledge."Jun 15 2012: What a horrid experience, Salandra.Jun 15 2012: The classroom is a basic lecture hall, but we go outside when possible. But there is still a lot one can do in such a large class that engages and captures the students. Regarding creativity, I threw out six beach deflated balls to 300 students and just watched what happened. within minutes they were batting them all around, laughing, but shortly after they were bored, and the balls were grounded. I asked them how many of them were done with the ball thing and they all raised their hands and I said, "this just shows that good ideas have a shelf life and new ones are needed all the time." But still, too many linger on Facebook, no matter how much i try to engage them!
Jun 15 2012: Hmm. One of the TEDFellows from Bahrain invented her company on FB during a class. I am a big social facilitator in large and small classes. I don't have that problem of distractions from FB. I am intent upon making sure students are learning about and from one another. One to many in a standard classroom set up IS boring. But even in a traditional lecture hall I can get 90% of students engaged within 2 weeks in a class of 95 reliably.
Jun 15 2012: How? Examples?
Jun 15 2012: First you have to leave the front of the class and circle about. Second, pair sharing with neighbors daily in each session have them apply the content to a context they have lived. Third, ask them to tell you teh truth about being bored and suggest things IN CLASS. And then take their coaching.Jun 15 2012: Looking forward to our conversation this afternoon!! Hi I am Kyra. Students call me Professor G. I was an inaugural TED Fellow 2009.
Want to help set the tone for our conversations today but anyone can lead here. I invited some friends to come join us. Christopher Emdin/@chrisemdin http://www.chrisemdin.com/, Melissa Pierce/ @melissapierce http://melissapierce.com/, and Lee Skallerup /@readywriting https://twitter.com/#!/readywriting to help us along. My special guests are my students, the adults in my Intro to Cultural Anthro class this summer at Baruch College-CUNY in NYC.
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Jun 4 2012: I have been involved with higher ed on and off for the last forty years on one side of the fence or the other. 1970s and 1980s it would have been Stanford, Berkeley, UW. Since 2000 it would be UW and Harvard. I also have daughters who are recent college graduates.
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Because I have spent so many years in the classroom, answering "what was it like" is a pretty big question! I'd say my education was about learning to think rigorously, to find problems worth solving, and to be ready to act in the face of uncertainty and in an adaptive way. I'd say my teaching has that same character. As I don't like memorizing stuff, I avoided courses where there was much memorization. Like almost anyone my age, I needed to learn to write clearly and directly. Being at Berkeley in the seventies meant everyone expected questioning of authority and that we all needed to prepare to be change agents.In teaching I have had more experience with graduate students than undergrads, so grades never loomed that large. Interacting with the class and getting students to interact with each other was typical practice in the 1980s and 1990s and now for graduate students at least. From my daughters I know that lots of discourse is in sections.Jun 17 2012: (Continue) I still remember a report said that "China's best schools may produce the world's best test-takers, but the United States' best schools produce the world's most creative talent." Even though, I hate to admit it but it really react the difference between this two countries. In my country, students learn through memorization. Teacher enjoys a very high reputation and student believes that what he/she says or does is always the truth. In American education, however, much emphasis is placed on problem solving and discussion. Students are taught to think for themselves. The role of the teacher is to stimulate their thinking, to get them to ask questions, challenge and even argue with the teacher and come to their own conclusions. This is why I like American education better.
Furthermore, we still need traditional teaching tools such as textbook, homework and exam. Isaac Newton said that he saw further than others because he stood on the shoulder of giants. So we need read the textbook to learn what we don't know and then explore the unknown. Moreover, we cannot be an armchair strategist. We need to turn our knowledge learned from the textbook and others into practice, and we need a way to test it. That is why we still need homework and exam.
Jun 18 2012: I continue to believe that Amerucan education is a hybrid of different styles, with a great deal of interaction and discussion in social sciences and in humanities in the lecture and weekly discussion sections and less discussion in a course such as mathematics or physics that is less centered on interpretation and multiple perspectives. Science classes have discussion sections for clarification and questioning about ideas more than to address diverse perspectives. They often have laboratories, because the skills of inquiry in those fields can be learned only through practice. Social science and humanities classes emulate the processes of the field by engaging students in research and field work.
I continue to have trouble with the idea of a status quo design of student-faculty interactions, as I believe interactions vary depending on the personalities of the people involved, the subjects they teach, the emphasis in the institution of research relative to teaching, the typical load a teacher carries of courses in a year at that school, and so forth. I would guess that if one talks about typical scenarios, there will be more faculty student interaction at a liberal arts college or small state college than at a major research university, but I have seen a lot of individualized attention at major research universities as well.Jun 17 2012: To entirely explore this question, I divide this topic into two parts. The first part is reformation of the classroom design, and the second part is innovation of teaching.
The classroom is a space for student to learn, to meet, to think. U-shape is one of the ideal classrooms that gives student a lot of inspires and emphasize the position of teacher/professor simultaneously. Student can discuss with each other face to face, and teacher is more freely to move and help them.
I am taking professor Gaunt's Anthropology class this summer, and she is the most understanding, creative and friendly professor I've ever met. She is trying to encourage student to be the consumer of their own productivity by saying that "Hello, great ones" in the beginning of every class. It really helps students to have good start of a day and value themselves. On the other side, I like this small classroom for a summer course, and we did a lot of communications during class. Without doubt, it is the best way to meet new people and expand our social network. I had a lot of class which professor only focused on lecture, so I did know anyone after finished the whole semester. Prof G. uses Facebook, email and other NetTools to keep in touch with student, and she said she prefers student to text massage to her, so she can respond us as soon as possible. According to my personally experience, there are only few professors/teachers would like students to disrupt their private lives. Therefore, I can say professor Gaunt is the unique! She really cares about student, not only their grade but also their future!Jun 17 2012: Hi Professor G:
How does the status quo design of student-faculty interactions diminish innovation in the classroom? How to hack higher Ed?
Socrates had a useful approach but I think demo, challenge, invite, and expand is appropriate and useful too. I have seen and used this on an elementary level, but it is a valid tool for any learning situation. Jazz musicians, surfers, and street skaters will get together and challenge each other this way. Take any performance, spoken poetry, song, game, and demonstrate it. Share the experience with a group interested in that activity. Challenge them to participate. Invite repeat performances. Allow each performance to build on the last and expand the repertoire of everyone.
What if the classroom interactions were designed for sustainability, for curiosity, and for innovating thinking? What would we talk about?
Singing and other performance art are their own conversation. Spoken word poetry is a case in point. (See Sarah Kay TED talk "If I Had A Daughter.")
The underlying principles seem to support what Michelle Holliday said about the pattern of living systems: 1) Diverse parts are required, the more diverse the better. 2) A unified whole is the focus of all. 3) Relationships matter. 4) Self-integration as a motivating force takes over.
Hack learning. Hack a sustainable future.Jun 15 2012: I am actually a student in Professor Gaunt's Anthropology class for this summer, and her way of teaching actually surprised me. She is open to our ideas and wants us to challenge her teachings, there is a new interaction each and everyday and she lets us try out different methods to see which one better suits our class. She told the class "I'm not in charge of your grades, you give yourselves the grade you deserve, so don't as me during the middle of the semester what your grades are". She gives a new way to teach the class like using Facebook interactions so we save trees, and also because it is the most used social interaction online as of this day.Jun 15 2012: The key in this is recognising that students hold beliefs regarding self-theory and achievement. Tutors also hold beliefs about student ability and these beliefs ( both student and tutor) can become learning inhibitors or enablers for students. I'm particularly interested in notions of fixed ability, which can limit (inhibit) learning. For example, if a student perceives them self as a 'C' grade student, research shows that they are unlikely to achieve highly...they self-limit their achievement. Check out Carol Dweck's work in this area. Happy to discuss further in relation to higher education. Suffice it to say that students can be supported in viewing themselves and 'ability' differently..and this results in incredible achievement levels...and great, innovative students.Jun 15 2012: Senge wrote, "Structure dictates behaviour". The structure of our education system was based on the Prussian model and designed to produce factory workers. It works for about 70% of students and abysmally fails (both literally and figuratively) the rest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system
"Our schools are, in a sense, factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life." (Cubberley, 1917)
Many theorists, Ivan Illich for example, decry this system; indeed there are a plethora of critiques of institutional education and when writing my thesis I searched for empirical evidence supporting our system. I found nothing, except perhaps some self-indulgent musings by University Deans who figured that because they rose to the top within the system, that the system works!
So yes, we need to hack the system and stop stigmatizing students who for one reason or another do not, or can not jump through the hoops. We need to begin to provide relevant learning opportunities to all individuals interested in expanding their skills and awareness.
Thanks for the opportunity to share my perspective.Jun 15 2012: Love it! Thank you! I do not want to bug you about Classroom Wikis...I know you are busy. Do you have a favorite link?Jun 15 2012: I'm easy to find if you need after all this. I'll be checking back again before sunday. Keep the convo going.Jun 15 2012: Thanks, Kyra!
Jun 15 2012: ByeJun 15 2012: I'll be signing off at 2pm EDT but my students are being asked to come back and comment and read and challenge. Hope you and others will too!! I am writing a book about double dutch champs from the late 70s and their role in early hiphop. ON a deadline with that. BUt keep chatting!!Jun 15 2012: I wonder how Active Learning might apply to my large classes. I also like your thought, Jeremy, about setting their own agenda. Next semester might be very interesting...
Jun 15 2012: Thanks for joining Karl!!! What's your handle on twitter?
Jun 15 2012: My Twitter and Facebook handles are karlgude. Thanks again, Kyra.Jun 15 2012: I met a wonderful teacher of teachers, Mel Silberman, who passed away 2 yrs ago. HE's the guy who wrote and trained people in Active Learning (lots of books). He shared that a study was done I think at Princeton about how many students share and how many words a minute they hear vs. WPM a prof lectures in.Jun 15 2012: I assume you mean the design of our courses/teaching efforts and faculty-student relationships. The thing I hear most from students is that many professors don't care about them, and this diminishes them in some way. Many cut off their nose to spite their face by skipping class and not doing the work. I had one student tell me that they did work for one professor because they were terrified of her, but she told me that she did work in my class because she wanted me to be proud of her. I think students just want to be 'seen' by their professors. Innovation in the classroom to me is engaging students with experiential learning and empowering through professor-student interaction and respect. Even in large classes students can get the message that you care, or don't.
Jun 15 2012: I would agree and add that the power over dynamic diminishes people. Forums like this one are refreshing because it shows that some professors use that power to empower, but all too often this is not the case. In some ways though, the design is set up for it to be this way. As doctoral students, we spend lots of time alone with books, diminishing our social skills. In addition, we are taught to problematize and criticize. Last, the process is so long and arduous. When one becomes a professor, not mention gets tenure, it seems as thought he/she has arrived. The student is in the process of becoming. I can't tell you how many times I've heard professors says " I already have what you're trying to get" or "you have to earn your strips like everybody else." It sounds like hazing and it is.
I agree with Dr. Gaunt, that even professors must make sure that they see themselves as still evolving and growing. Although they may be more grown, doing so highlights the process/journey rather than the end.
Jun 15 2012: My students have challenged me more than any of the doctoral process did. I have a radical approach to the classroom and being responsible for each and every one learning to be curious and responsible for being the consumer of their own productivity. It's much easier than folks think but it's counter=intuitive to everything i was taught.Jun 15 2012: JUST GOT A MESSAGE I REACHED THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF RATINGS FOR YOU (lol - how ironic). I love what the student said about being proud of herself!!
Jun 15 2012: Not sure if I missed something but there is a hope that students do work so they can be proud of themselves asa you suggest, not so that the prof can be proud of them (although we are so often).Jun 15 2012: What does innovation mean in the classroom of higher education today? Are we serving society well with the design of faculty-student today? How are we doing with empowering citizens with our design?Jun 15 2012: I had to look up "ethnomusicologist!" Michigan's nice. I was in NYC for 25 years so it's quite a change!
Jun 15 2012: I bet it is. lolJun 15 2012: Twitter is a way for a huge number of students to get a sense of the people around them. They post links and comments on Twitter and often their personality shows through. It's hard to know everyone, but I can comment on most posts, usually trying to be fun, or sympathetic. Other students will too. I can't know everyone's name, but I can still connect with many more than if I just lectured to them.
Everyone winds up in front of the class at some point. We do improv, even for serious topics. Anything to make the content more accessible and memorableJun 15 2012: Be sure to refresh your page to see new comments. Unfortunately there is no real time updating on these convos. #booJun 15 2012: What's your fav TED Talk about education and why? What's the fav talk you've shown students and why do you think? Wish we had students involved here. My students are busy working and this is not class time.Jun 15 2012: so much about innovation, creativity. I tell them that we are all the amalgamation of everyone else's expectations (bosses, teachers, paretns..) and that in order to contribute to this works we have to dig out from all of that and find out who we are, what we as individuals can contribute.
You'll get a solid idea of how I engage the students if you leap to the six minute point on this video my school just made. It's short but you can look later.
Jun 15 2012: I'll watch later! ThxJun 15 2012: I really enjoyed that concept. I am teaching a journalism class this summer for middle schoolers and that is the way I have always taught it, with much less resources of course, but they get to see the variety of options in a media career. Good stuff!Jun 15 2012: If I show other work by professional and students they think that's what I'm looking for and they just reproduce something similar! But if they have too much freedom it generally turns out pretty awful!
Jun 15 2012: What have you learned about innovation that you try to pass on? and how does the set up of your classroom affect that?Jun 4 2012: I would have thought there is a lot of variety in student/faculty interactions rather than a clear status quo in that area. I think course readers or links to articles that present the most important research in the field would still be highly relevant and that students' experiences would be as well, provided everyone understands the difference between anecdote and what is true on a broad scale or in general.
Good pedagogy for students of any age taps into students' curiosity and connects the subject to students' experiences, what they already know, and what they are curious about. A university education as much as k12 surely is about cultivating students' skills in thinking and disposition to think as well as to find problems of interest and to learn independently. But this at this point is best practice and not controversial.
There is an option, and in many cases a practice, of using discussion boards in university courses in which students raise questions to each other and share ideas with moderation by teaching staff. In that context students may be assessed by how they participate in advancing discourse through their questions and comments. This would not replace demonstrating an understanding of course content. I think the latter is still best assessed by the instructor.
Jun 4 2012: Thanks Fritzie! What's your relationship to higher ed? How long ago where you a part of a college classroom? What was it like for you? And where was it? What made it special whenever it was? OR innovative?Jun 3 2012: You might wonder why I chose some of these videos. I loved Jimmy Wales video on Wikipedia and always wondered why professors around the country do not use, rather than denigrate, the open source potential of Wikipedia to alter the listening of their particular disciplines since it is accessed by millions daily.
Derek Sivers and Tim Ferriss are innovators around work and organizational behavior and their thinking is so undervalued in academic environments. I'd also add the video by technologist Josh Klein "The Intelligence of Crows"
Liz Coleman's talk on reinventing the liberal arts and Barry Schwartz videos speak to the culture and discourse, the hidden and unspoken social constructs that keep the status quo in place in my POV. I'd add Dan Ariely's video too esp. because it addresses cheating which is a ripe subject for a future conversation relative to college classrooms.
TED curator Chris Anderson's talk on the power of TED's videos speaks to the key role TED Talks have played in my classrooms since early 2008. Sometimes i think just playing talks and talking about them with emerging adults is a fine education and then having them study, write and research from there. TED talks are more than the next Harvard.
And finally what would a conversation about education be without Ken Robinson's videos? Where is the design element for creativity in education? Where is the sustainability of genius we all had as young people?
Look forward to the conversation.
Laurie Noe
Jun 15 2012: I teach early childhood education (ECE) at a community college and we use a lot of video clips from a variety of places. The ones that seem to work especially well are the ones that students find themselves. Our ECE faculty have a few video clip services that we send students to. We ask them to find clips that demonstrate a particular developmental stage, for instance. Then they post the video they found and their understanding of how it links to the work we are discussing. It is the search that seems to prove so beneficial for everyone. Of course we use TED talks as well.
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Jun 15 2012: Sorry, having all sorts of tech issues. Didn't get this until just now. In ECE there is a lot of discussion around child-directed activities and teacher-directed activities and the balance between the two. Then we talk about the same thing in relation to the courses they take at the college. What works for some...doesn't work for others but the constant change and availability of options for learning activities is what seems to work. Some days I set up "learning centers" that my students filter through at their own discretion just the same way preschoolers would during "free play."


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When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and, ultimately, repelled by Christian's singular erotic tastes, Ana demands a deeper commitment. Determined to keep her, Christian agrees.
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Just when it seems that their strength together will eclipse any obstacle, misfortune, malice, and fate conspire to make Ana's deepest fears turn to reality.
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"We ate the dessert first..."
So I finish the Fifty Shades trilogy... Oh the tragedy! Fortunately I can and will listen to all three books over and over. I just can't get enough Fifty. I think my inner goddess is a pervert ;).
Narration: By now Becca Batoe's remastered recording (the-I-just-drank-half-a-bottle-of-wine-and-started-reading) is growing on me. She's ok but I still prefered the original recording were she sounded young but her male voices were much better.
Fifty Shades Freed starts with Christian and Anastacia enjoying their honeymoon. It includes more kinky lovery, more vanilla wonders and more Christian going sicko possessive. By now this drags a bit because it is a repeat of situations: Christian jealous, Ana challenges them, they fight, the have steamy sex and so on and so forth. Christians skeletons keep coming out of the closet and threatening his dear Ana. There is some suspense that brings some spice to the book but it never lives up to the mesmerizing stories we got on the first two books. Oh, and Ana calls RED on fifty. I was waiting for that!
I believe that listeners will be happy with the ending. Definitely the epilogue and the Shades of grey chapters are the absolute best in the whole book. It was exactly what I wanted to listen to in this story. This trilogy is in a class of its own. I've never read anything like it and will treasure it for years to come.
"Enough already!"
I will be honest, it took me almost 4 months to get through this last book in the 50 Shades trilogy, and even at that, I wasn't able to completley finish this one. I hate the voice of the narrator, but since I had listened to the other 2 books, I figured I needed to finally hear the end.
Well, I'm sorry to say that the start of it had me lost, with a gap in time so big I thought I missed an entire book in between, and by this book, I could no longer bear to hear the same descriptions of sex and feelings anymore. I finally shut of the book when it got to the 50 shades of Christen because frankly ladies I didn't care! I don't care for the end, and to hear any more about this guy that in book 1 had me at the edge of my seat, I felt smothered by the cloyingly sweet picture perfect ending, and I wanted to gouge my ears out if I had to hear Beccas voice anymore.
For me, 2 was enough, and like they say.. 3 is a crowd. This could have ended after the second book instead of rehashing, and dragging out to the point that it lost my interest.
I love audiobooks! They allow me to do my daily chores and get a book read at the same time.
"I really enjoyed this trilogy!"
This trilogy came at a great time in my life.
I liked Becca Battoe's voice, although her Latin/Mexican accent was not good.
Yes! I did not want to stop listening to this book and I did not want it to end.
"Not great"
The plot was weak, and the dialogue was horrible. The characters didn't mature from the start if the series and the whole book was a waste of time and money.
The lack of character development and change. I really was hoping for something others than another story where the girl ends up with the control freak and adjusts her life to meet his needs.
Her voice was too pitchy and hard to listen too for me.
Every scene where the female character backs down abd does not stand up for herself allowing herself to be treated ad a human doormat.
Very diss appointing ending, to a very disappointing series.
The first two books were alright but this last one was a waste of time and a waste of a credit. WIll not recommend to others.
It was very drawn out and the ending was very lame.
"Terrible writing, repetitive and juvenile."
Was hoping for a fun summer read but this was not it!
The three books were poorly written and though I kept hoping for some semblance of an adequate story line to emerge the plot was weak, the characters repetitive and shallow, the writing juvenile and the repetition hard to take. Even the gratuitous scenes (which is what I'm assuming made these books popular) were repetitive and I was fast forwarding through them by book three!
I would recommend this book over and over again. I hope E L james makes a trilogy based on what Mr. Gray was thinking.
Christian. He had me so hot and bothered. I loved him.
I think she did a great job with all the characters.
When christian thought she was going leave him again and he became the Submissive.
This book was so awesome. I hope E L James takes my advice and PLEASE make books based on what Christian was thinking.
"MORE! I need more Fifty Shades!!!"
This book was AWESOME, EROTIC, and well written.
Ana...she was funny and innocent and naughty.
She's always great!
When Chistian opened up to Ana about Elena.
I hope this author writes MORE!!!!
Just me...
"Oh My Indeed"
I found the readers interpration of the characters laughable at best. She really got on my nerves. I was already dealing with a book that was not exactly what you call great writing but i wanted to see what all the hype was about...Oh good lord...
This book would have been better if every other page wasn't some weird "Kinky F-kery" I believe she called it. It was a lot too much!
If it's written by James...then for sure!
She was annoying
Not unless it was NC-17! And it starred porn stars!
I hate I spent money on this but, oh well. I wanted to catch up and see what all my girlfriends where gushing about. Now I think they all need to have their heads examined.
"Thank goodness the torture is over"
Yes I must have some masochist tendency's as I tortured myself through the whole series - audible even! Mainly to see if the author and narrator could possibly be so consistently bad through to the bitter end.
My emotions? Frustrated there was no improvement in the writing skills of the author or narration skills of the reader. Disappointment that Ana never matures from her naive, malleable and subservient behaviors. There are times throughout the series that Ana thinks she's acting strongly and standing up defiantly for herself, against Christian, to protect her civil rights. What a bunch of horse pucky! It's sad how she so deludes herself. There are specific items/actions she considers deal breakers but will debase herself for the other 98% of time. She lets Christian roll over her like a freight train, coming and going. I lost track of the times she's trying to figure out how "not to make him so mad or so upset" - over and over. She constantly supplants her own needs for his wants and desires.
The book is grand example of how abusive and controlling behaviors can be exhibited and some classic victim thinking to go along with it.
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Overview:With up to eight Pentium III Xeon processors and 16GB of memory the Proliant DL760 is the server that can handle anything your business has to throw at it all in only 7U of rack space. This model is configured with four 900MHz Pentium III Xeon processors each with a 2MB write-back L2 cache an integrated Smart Array controller with support for RAID levels 0 0+1 and 5 and 2GB 100MHz ECC SDRAM (expandable to 16GB). In addition to the 100MHz front bus speed the Proliant ML750 contains a 3.5 1.44MB floppy disk drive and a 24X (max. speed) slimline CD-ROM drive. There are four hot-plug drive bays that provide a maximum internal storage capacity of 145.6GB (4 x 36.4GB). Because there is no pre-installed hard drive you are free to configure storage to fit your needs. The Compaq NC3134 Fast Ethernet Dual Port 10/100 PCI NIC (upgradeable to gigabit) takes care of your networking needs while the 10 free hot-plug PCI slots offer plenty of room for expansion. The integrated PCI graphics and 2MB of video memory support resolutions up to 1024 x 768 in 256 colors. There is no pre-installed operating system. Supported operating systems include: Microsoft Windows NT Server; Microsoft Windows 2000; Novell NetWare; SCO UnixWare; LINUX (RedHat S.U.S.E. TurboLinux Server Caldera eServer); and Sun Solaris Intel Platform Edition.
CategoryProliant Server
Part Number212692-001
Products ID15635
Form FactorRack-Mountable
ProcessorPentium III Xeon 900 MHz
Processors Qty4
Installed Memory2 GB (SDRAM)
Storage Controller TypeIDE / EIDE
Bus Speed100 MHz
Video Output InterfacePCI
Installed RAM2 GB
RAM TechnologySDRAM
Maximum RAM16 GB
Installed L2 Cache Memory8 MB
Installed Video Memory2 MB
RAID SupportRAID 0, RAID 10, RAID 5
CD / DVD TypeCD-ROM
Read Speed24x (CD)
Floppy Type3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy
Max. Video Resolution1280 x 1024
Networking TypeNetwork Adapter
Data Link ProtocolEthernet, Fast Ethernet
Dimensions (WxDxH)17.53 in x 27.03 in x 12.14 in
Weight110.25 lbs


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Victorian Steve Richards has joined his legendary father Jim on the Porsche Carrera Cup winners' list at Albert Park with an all-the-way victory at Albert Park this afternoon, as the support class program at the 2013 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix continues to provide some hotly contested competition.
Richards got the better of polesitter Nick Percat from the start, and then successfully kept the shutters up for the remainder of the eight-lapper, despite some very close attention from Craig Baird at first, before Percat took up the cause.
It was Richards' second Carrera Cup victory in as many outings after winning the final race at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide in late February.
"It was a cracker start, which set me up for the race," said Richards. "The car was good enough in the right areas to get the job done and for me to stay ahead of Percat and Baird.
"We'll now look at some little tweaks for tomorrow, and I'm sure we'll be pretty close again."
The distance between Richards and third-placed Baird at the chequered flag was 1.0961 seconds, and the top six was completed by Warren Luff, Michael Patrizi and Matthew Kingsley.
Percat and Baird made contact a few times in the first half of the race before calmness intervened, leaving the main focus on the run home Percat's attempt to unseat Richards – an ultimately futile exercise.
Max Twigg was the first 'Elite' driver home in 10th position after eventually getting the better of James Koundouris by one second.
All 22 drivers made it to the end, and will reassemble for race two at 12:50pm tomorrow.


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I'am looking to build a PC for Photo editing and video editing, but am getting confused with whats out there. Any suggestions of motherboard/cpubundle. Price range £400 to £500 for the bundle.
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Recipe by CANDACEMARIE
"I make this cake over and over. It is easy to put together and the frosting of the cake is easy and fast. It goes fast around my house."
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2 cups
white sugar
2 cups
all-purpose flour
1/2 cup
1/2 cup
vegetable oil
1 cup
1/4 cup
unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon
baking soda
1/2 cup
1 teaspoon
1 teaspoon
ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
1/4 cup
4 cups
confectioners' sugar
1 cup
chopped pecans
I've been making this same cake for years! Actually, instead of the oil, I use another stick of butter. Yikes! Three sticks in one cake!!! Anyway, I have been asked to make this cake MANY, MANY times over the years. I have even been paid to make this cake. My mother-in-law has dreams about it, and hoards it when I make it. I got the recipe from a friend about twenty years ago (when I was in Jr. High School!), and she called it Candy Cake because the icing is like eating fudge. I highly recommend poking lots of holes in the cake just before you pour the hot icing over the hot cake. I use a thick wooden skewer to do this. If I didn't have one, then I use the back of my beater from my hand-mixer. This makes it unbelievably moist and heaven-filled! I used to get asked to make the birthday cake for all the birthdays in my office, and my co-workers even asked if I would make this cake for my own birthday. It is a definite winner. Don't look any further, this is THE chocolate cake!
Oh, and candacemarie, my name is also Candice Marie and I go by Candi, too. People think the cake is named after me (since we call it Candy Cake). lol
Well i was looking for a chocolate cake recipe, so i tried this one. I followed the recipe almost exactly but cut the cinnamon to half the amount. Even with that the cinnamon almost over powered it. I wanted a basic chocolate cake, not a cinnamon chocolate cake. Also, it wasn't very chocolaty. Because of that i give it 3 stars.
Now since then i stopped using cinnamon and use a bit more than 1/4 cup of cocoa. The cake is very good and very moist.
A good recipe to build off of.
Also i did not like the frosting, way to sugary.
229 Ratings
This is an AWESOME recipe!!!! The ingredient list is long, but it is very easy to make and clean up is simple. HINT: I didn't want a rectangle cake so I poured the batter into 2 9inch pans. It turned out great. Perfect for layers!!! For big layers- double recipe!!! (It also slipped out of the pan with no mess!!!!)
This was an unexpected hit. It's incredible to me just how much chocolate flavor there was in this cake given the small amount of cocoa powder in it. It is also incredible how moist and fresh tasting it was, given I made it three days ago and first cut into it tonight! I loved that it called for both butter, for unbeatable flavor, and shortening, for guaranteed moistness. I didn't include the cinnamon simply because it didn't appeal to me and that was a good call for my taste buds. As for the frosting, it is a fudgy, brownie-type frosting that pours easily and stays soft (even three days later).
This is a fantastic recipe that continues to be a hit with co-workers and friends. The cake is easy to make, the frosting is wonderful, and the cake stays remarkably moist. I highly recommend this cake to anyone who loves chocolate - it is indeed the best chocolate cake you ever ate!
This cake is super yummy and easy to make, I did it in two 9'' pans for a layer cake, and just made it for the third time, each time has been a fantastic birthday cake..i use a different frosting, and make a fresh strawberry filling, sooo good with the cinnamon! Thanks for this great recipe!
I found this cake really easy to make and quite tasty. A good, cheap-to-make chocolate cake. (I didn't add the cinnamon.)
I have never baked a cake before, AND THIS CAKE WAS AWESOME! Everyone at my daughters b-day party was just raving about this cake. I used a cream cheese frosting and it turned out great. USE THIS RECIPE!!!
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Serving Size: 1/24 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 24
Amount Per Serving
** Calories: 335
** Calories from Fat: 148
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Lindane is an antiquated and toxic pesticide that was once used extensively worldwide. Despite a recent global ban on its agricultural use, the pesticide, a potent neurotoxin, is still used in shampoos and lotions in the U.S. to control headlice and scabies. California banned these pharmaceutical uses in 2001, and similar legislation is moving forward in Michigan.
Today, metabolites of the DDT-era pesticide are routinely found in human bodies. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal a lindane component, beta-HCH, in the blood of 62% of people tested. Infants are exposed through the placenta and breastmilk, and lindane residue contaminates common foods such as rice and potatoes.
Lindane's body burden is a significant concern given its effects on human health — especially the nervous system. Human exposure to lindane is linked to a number of health impacts:
Lindane is an organochlorine, a class of pesticides that are notorious for their toxicity, mobility, and persistence in the environment. The persistent chemical shows up more often than any other pesticide in the Arctic, contaminating traditional foods of indigenous communities in the region.
Alternatives are available and in use around the world for both agricultural and pharmaceutical uses of lindane. A 2009 report from the International POPs Elimination Network presents specific alternatives for common uses of lindane around the world.
Scientists report that lindane is currently among the least effective means to control lice and scabies. California's 2001 ban of lindane's pharmaceutical products has resulted in cleaner water and less risk to children from exposure to the chemical, with viable alternatives effectively controlling lice and scabies outbreaks, according to a recent article in Environmental Health Perspectives.
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