Category Archives: teaching learning
- on education vs teaching
Non scholae sed vitae discimus In a heated discussion with a colleague about one of the classes I occasionally teach, the instructor, who also happens to be the chair of her department, asked me angrily – and rhetorically “why is it important for students to learn the history of computers? this is irrelevant.” The class [...]
- citation game
Rutgers is doing a great job on that. Plagirism is big especially with the Internet now and the availability of information without much ado – so here are Rutgers’ games: Link 1 http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/douglass/sal/plagiarism/intro.html Great to play with students AND faculty. Is plagiarism in the eye of the beholder? Another is on how to write a [...]
