tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4323202250325013491.post5609816686198767396..comments2008-04-14T10:34:14.720-05:00Kevin Gamblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00659162207319457717noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4323202250325013491.post-24909688575956914752008-04-14T10:34:00.000-05:002008-04-14T10:34:00.000-05:002008-04-14T10:34:00.000-05:00That's very cool Bud.<BR/><BR/>If I was still teaching I'd want students to be challenging me, challenging each other... Doing fact-checking in class... I'd want my classes to approximate the real-world as much as possible. Live blogging would be excellent. Tweets too. Chatting with their friends. All would be allowed. It's all about conversation and engagement.<BR/><BR/>If the class was so boring that they were playing games... So be it. The students mental health is important too. :)Kevin Gamblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00659162207319457717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4323202250325013491.post-52945749410578163112008-04-13T20:13:00.000-05:002008-04-13T20:13:00.000-05:002008-04-13T20:13:00.000-05:00In some of our labs (I teach Computer Information Systems), it's possible to lock the computers to what is on the instructors' screen. I've seen this a few times, and I wonder what the value is.<BR/><BR/>I think there's an old model where faculty are the center of instruction. When I got my PhD at Carnegie Mellon, that was not the model at all. Herb Simon, who I had the luck to take a course with, would actually start the class by asking us to come up with questions that he would then proceed to craft a lecture around. Now more than a decade into my own teaching career, I interpret that as an act of survival on his part. It's the only way to keep life in things.<BR/><BR/>Translating that into the electronic age, I actually have students contributing electronically in class via blogs. Maybe next year we'll add twitter.Budhttp://budgibson.myopenid.com/noreply@blogger.com