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Posted on March 17, 2008
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From time to time, I may run across or (more likely) be introduced to a tool that I find has appealing possibilities in the context of teaching and learning. Oh, and I tend to be partial to those that are free for the end user who isn’t trying to make money off it.
So, last week or so, I was introduced to Cozimo (www.cozimo.com) by my friend, Beth Harris at FIT in New York. She has been experimenting with its use in one of her art history courses. She’s commented on this tool in her blog here.
Posted on March 3, 2008
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In my last column, I introduced Atul Gawande’s book, Better. I suggested that the three themes of his book–diligence, doing right, and ingenuity–had bearing on what we do as educators and, of course, as learners, and as members of the University community.
Gawande writes “Diligence seems an easy and minor virtue. (You just pay attention, right?) But it is neither. Diligence is both central to performance and fiendishly hard.” He illustrates his points through stories about hand washing, care for the wounded in Iraq and Afganistan, and the global effort to eradicate polio. Certainly, the latter two are incredibly interesting, but I’d like to focus more on the mundane.
