Interesting article on the difficulties that recent college graduates are having in finding a job. I had not seen some of the series mentioned here, like the job finding rate for new entrants. Will likely use this article this all. "Degree? Yes. Job? Maybe not yet."

I was reading Beth McMurtrie's most recent Teaching column in the The Chronicle of Higher Education and I was struck by her reporting on work by Marc Watkins (marcwatkins.bsky.social) . He argues that ChatGPT and friends will likely impact far more than just assessments in higher education. Here's one example, which is from

I enjoyed reading this week's "Teaching" column by Beckie Supiano of the Chronicle of Higher Education. It focused on university instructors who tried to learn new things, like dance, and what lessons they learned. While gated, here's one point. chronicle.com/newsletter/tea…

Here's a picture I took on Mykines, one of the Faroe Islands (roughly between Iceland and Scotland). I like to travel to out of the way places.

Still in the Faroes and I took this picture of the village of Gasadalur with the Múlafossur Waterfall. I waited 2+ hours for the clouds to clear from the top of the hill, but it was a fine place to just be. I got very lucky with the bird to the left, but honestly many were

This seems to be the latest word on the debate between students taking notes by hand or by typing. I was not aware that there was so much research in this area.

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Cool idea -- a text that uses input from thousands of students on how they worked problems. pearson.com/en-us/subject-…

Interesting background info on first year college students. It reminds me of the work of Jean Twenge (author of GENERATIONS, iGEN) on how common adult activities are now starting later than they did with previous generations. srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

Wish there was even discussion of this at the college level. Note this article has links to papers that find that classroom laptop use is associated with less learning.

There was a major solar storm the night of August 11-12 and it made an appearance over State College, PA (right in the middle of Pennsylvania). This was take with my phone, a Pixel 6 with its "Night Sight." I was surprised that it showed up through the light pollution of

Not surprising, but in this survey, 81% of those aged 18-29 feel they use their phones too much. I'll be paring this with a demo that illustrates a very large majority of us do not multitask well at all. The implication is that they need to be particularly careful about phone

Very interesting point on motivation -- no wonder so many college students seem to give up after a poor first exam. How might course be structured differently to give students some success early on? Here's some of the text (extracted with ChatGPT from this image): "Evidence

I'm sure that this applies to college instruction as well. I'd argue that "deliberate practice" is a better instructional goal.

The idea that we often avoid thinking is almost insulting, but as described here, there is a wealth of evidence this is true. To hopefully get my students to think, I pose challenging (clicker) questions in class. Hopefully this fulfills Daniel Willingham's "conditions". More is in

Pleased to be leading this semester-long "class" for faculty on the fundamentals of cognitive science for college instructors. We're basing it off of a paper by Stephen Chew . digital.la.psu.edu/cognitive-scie…

Another teaching challenge.