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Science is a Contact Sport: Car#2
My car (#2) sped east and overtaken by blinding rain and debris. In the nervous moments that followed, I chose to stop in the middle of the highway and turn the vehicle across the highway and into the...
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Science is a Contact Sport
The 2008 University of Michigan tornado chase team including (left to right) Paul Schmidt, Joel Dressen (Texas Tech), Matt Onderlinde, David Wright, Jennifer DeHart, Candace Wood (Texas Tech), Joe...
View ArticleScience as a Contact Sport: Car#1
This video is from car #1 which stayed to the west of the center of the storm. Students in this vehicle were able to film the formation of the tornado, which quickly grew into a massive tornado with...
View ArticleConduct Class from Anywhere
Teach from Anywhere I’m a college professor who probably works more than 60 hours a week and I suspect I am not uncommon in my profession. We love to do research, we teach multiple classes and...
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Predicting Student Success in a Large Class
The Look in Their Eyes I’ve heard it said by colleagues and conference speakers that when a class “get’s it” they can tell by the look in the students’ eyes. Wouldn’t it be grand if in the future...
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Evidence that Class Participation Affects Student Outcomes
Imagine a world where you had infinite access to every keystroke and click your students use related to your course. How would that help you? How would you use that information to guide the student?...
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Do Hybrid Courses Incubate Mediocrity?
My Hybrid Course Have I inadvertently designed a monster? In the winter semester I offered a hybrid course, Extreme Weather (AOSS 102), at the University of Michigan (UM) that was simultaneously...
View ArticleBanning Laptops in Class is the Wrong Answer
Recent articles by Valerie Strauss (@valeriestrauss) in the Washington Post and Dan Rockwell (@Leadershipfreak) in the New Yorker pander to the insecurities of college instructors and ignore research...
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IF Incoming GPA Predicts Student Grades What’s My Role?
Student Grades are Related to a Student’s GPA Student grades are often strongly related to a student’s prior success as measured by incoming GPA. Is this because these students lack cognitive ability...
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Large Courses Create an Uneven Playing Field
Opening day! First class of the year! For many of us this is a time to redesign our lectures with an eye to improving how we present our material. But lost in our efforts to develop the clearest...
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Large Courses Create an Uneven Playing Field
Opening day! First class of the year! For many of us this is a time to redesign our lectures with an eye to improving how we present our material. But lost in our efforts to develop the clearest...
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Banning Laptops in Class is the Wrong Answer
Recent articles by Valerie Strauss (@valeriestrauss) in the Washington Post and Dan Rockwell (@Leadershipfreak) in the New Yorker pander to the insecurities of college instructors and ignore research...
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How the Polar Vortex Prepared Me to Teach with the Coronavirus
I suspect it’s inevitable that at some point a student on my campus will be diagnosed with a highly communicable illness, be it the current coronavirus outbreak or another, perhaps even nastier,...
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Taking the Virtual Temperature of Class
One strategy I’ve been using is to include a mechanism for students to share how they’re doing physically and emotionally. I started this long before the coronavirus by asking an image-based question...
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