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How many of your students are really technology literate

Submitted by PJBenn on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 12:15am

In my job as the assistant director of the Graduate Teacher Program I attend many workshops and meetings on how to improve learning in the undergraduate classroom. Recently, it seems I can't attend a meeting without someone saying: “we should be adding technology to the classroom because our undergraduates grew up around technology so they expected it everywhere." Furthermore they say: "our undergraduates are more tech savvy and skilled than we are. Read More »

What My Camera Can Tell Us About Educational Technology

Submitted by PJBenn on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 10:47am

I have enjoyed photography as a hobby for about 30 years now. I am almost entirely self-taught, though by this point I have read a fairly large number of books and magazines and have taken a couple of short classes. I often marveled at the changes in camera technology over the last 30 years. Many of these changes have often been touted as game changers. I don't know how many game changers I've seen in the last 30 years but one thing they all seem to have in common is that they were gone as fast as they appeared. Read More »

What Do Your Students Think Teaching-as-Research Means?

Submitted by PJBenn on Mon, 09/27/2010 - 9:14am

Recently, I was presenting the second TIGER workshop of the semester “CIRTL‘s Teaching-as-Research Process”.  At CU we're trying to encourage course redesign and improved teaching practices. To this end I do my best to model these practices in my workshops. One of the things I often do to start my workshops is ask several questions. Read More »

Are You and Your Graduate Student Using the Same Definitions?

Submitted by PJBenn on Mon, 09/13/2010 - 2:42am

In the last few years I have had several discussions with graduate students that are having problems with their principle investigator. In all of these cases the problem has revolved around the student’s experimental design. Read More »

Are You and Your Graduate Student Using the Same Definitions?

Submitted by PJBenn on Mon, 09/13/2010 - 2:36am

In the last few years I have had several discussions with graduate students that are having problems with their principle investigator. In all of these cases the problem has revolved around the student’s experimental design. Read More »

Jeff Klukas's CIRTL Exchange

Submitted by PJBenn on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 3:29pm

Jeff’s CIRTL Exchange has come and gone. It was a pleasure having him on campus and all in all, I think the exchange went well. Jeff gave three presentations, all in our department of physics. Two of Jeff’s talks were on his teaching as research project. One of the talks was to a full house for the Physics Education Research (PER) group the other was as a brown bag for the preparing future physicist group which is one of our PFF programs.
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What Do Postdocs Want?

Submitted by PJBenn on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 3:35am
People constantly ask me, what do postdocs want? Well, the easiest way to find out what postdocs or any group wants is to ask them. This is exactly what I have been doing in my role as Co-President of the Postdoctoral Association of Colorado. One of the questions we ask on our workshop evaluations is, what topics would you like to see presented?
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