pedagogy, teaching, education

Minimalist lifestyle seems to be the latest craze. Minimalism is not just a genre of music or a visual aesthetic, or even an interior design scheme... »

The following is a talk I shared at Moravian College to humanities faculty as they work through issues of blended learning in a liberal arts context.... »

Following is the outline and resources for my workshop “Coding for Teachers” at Digital Pedagogy Lab’s 2016 Institute. If you’ve been thinking about possibly learning to... »

This morning, my four-year-old was reading Green Eggs and Ham to me. I’ve heard that Dr. Seuss was intentional about using developmental psychology to inform how... »

Lee Skallerup Bessette published a blog post today, Teaching and Learning as Paying Attention, which I very much appreciated. Lee writes: I believe very deeply in... »

I’m currently assembling some materials for the instructional team for Aural Skills III, as we begin a new unit focusing on the transcription and improvisation of... »

Can we backwards-design education? Can we determine in advance where our students will end up? should end up? And can we determine the script all our... »

Here is the reading list for The Flipped Classroom, a three-week, intensive, online course I’m teaching for Digital Pedagogy Lab beginning on July 19. I’m still... »

What is the flipped classroom? According to many in the educational technology business, it’s using online video to deliver lectures to students and personalize the learning... »

Starting on July 19, I will be leading a 3-week, intensive online course on the “flipped” or “inverted” classroom. This is the first professional development course... »

Is it possible to “flip” an online class? As most people define the inverted class, no. If the inverted class involves students watching video (micro)lectures at... »

Who decides what teachers teach? More importantly, who decides what students learn? Cedar Riener’s recent article for EML unpacks some of the implications of academic freedom... »

What if we focused less on scalable pedagogy and more on sustainable pedagogy? When someone proposes a new idea in education, that proposal is often followed... »

To educate as the practice of freedom . . . comes easiest to those of us who teach who also believe that there is an aspect... »

What does a student-centered music theory curriculum look like? This question has been posed to me a few times on Twitter by David Kulma. It has... »

We need more humanity in the humanities. I recently attended a conference at which the teaching of undergraduate music students was a core focus. I was... »

To the growth of the [student] all studies are subservient; they are instruments valued as they serve the needs of growth. Personality, character, is more than... »

A teacher’s first encounter with critical pedagogy can be overwhelming. The ideology is radically (pun intended) different from “traditional” approaches to education, and it can be... »

This is the third in my series of posts on educational fallacies. You can read all of them here. Almost all educational settings in the US... »

This weekend, I read a recent blog post at the Chronicle of Higher Education by Steven Conn on the “helicopter teacher.” Conn’s post is primarily a... »

I’ve been thinking about grading a lot lately. Not only am I doing a lot of it—way more than I would like—and supervising grad students who... »

Sight-singing and dictation are staples of university-level musical training. While it is a worthy ambition to “see what you hear and hear what you see,” as... »

I recently watched the TED talk by Clay Shirky, “How Cognitive Surplus will Change the World.” It’s well worth the 20 minutes it takes to watch/listen... »