[tips] How much do students text during class?

2013-10-21 Thread Christopher Green
Those of you who spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out clever ways to ensure that students are not surfing the web, etc. during your lectures: Forget about it. You might as well insist that they all take their shoes off before coming into class.

[tips] request for help

2013-10-21 Thread C E Walker
Colleagues: I am searching for a good article on the advantages of interdisciplinary learning and one on critical thinking that I could assign to a course on Introduction to Graduate School. Any suggestions? Best Wishes. Gene Walker, genewal...@iname.com -Original Message- From: Teaching

Re: [tips] How much do students text during class?

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Britt
I liked the advantages students saw to using their devices while in the classroom: staying connected (70 percent), avoiding boredom (55 percent) and doing related classwork (49 percent) avoiding boredom is a concern and what does staying connected mean? Poorly written survey it looks to

[tips] Serendipity and Pavlovian conditioning

2013-10-21 Thread michael sylvester
If my memory serves me right,Pavlov's classical conditioning discovery was accidental in nature.It is my understanding that the dude was a Physiologist with research interests in canine digestive systems.He paid attention to salivary responses of the dog chewing a burger from the Leningrad

[tips] History of Psychology texts

2013-10-21 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
I'm researching History of Psychology textbooks with intention to teach it next semester. I've learned the most amazing thing: Apparently, the history of psychology ends sometime about 1960! LOL! Paul --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

Re: [tips] History of Psychology texts

2013-10-21 Thread Christopher Green
No Payl. It's the history of psychology that ends around 1960. After that, it's called psychology. :-) Chris ... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo On Oct 21, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Paul C Bernhardt