Ioannis Costas Batlle
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Impromptu online teaching: Why podcasts can be useful ‘patches’
Just like thousands of teachers across the globe, over the past week I embarked on an online teaching crash course. I teach 73 first year undergraduates, and my unit, ironically, looking at it now, is underpinned by students not being allowed laptops in the classroom. In a few days, I had to take a course designed to feature no laptops and transform it into a 100% laptop-based module.
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Banning laptops in the classroom helped foster critical thinking
When I announced to second-year undergraduate students that I was banning the use of laptops in one of my units, they reacted just as you might have expected. Even though I carefully outlined my rationale – to foster critical thinking by promoting...
