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Wojtek
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > We joke about this where I work: when we're asked about our "equipment
> > needs" in the liberal arts, it's hard for us to think of anything big. We
> > need more dry-erase markers!
> >
> >
> Heh. Exactly. And yet grant money comes in for us to invest in "engaged
> pedagogies in the classroom," and they beg us to adopt new "teaching
> strategies" that "engage" the students, and that use technology that will
> cost real money.
>
> And I just keep thinking, the most engaging thing I've found is to make
> them
> actually responsible for reading what I'm asking them to read. When they do
> that, and take it seriously, they often find that it's interesting. And
> then
> they're engaged. And all it took was that $20 book.
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