2012

  • The average undergraduate today has been learning in front of a screen and typing away at a keypad since early childhood. "I do remember when we still could choose between turning in a typed paper and a handwritten one,"聺 says junior Mifa
  • What would you learn if you could turn off the atmosphere? What problems might you solve if you could increase the force of gravity or had the ability to manipulate individual electrons in a circuit? Demonstrations and experiments have long been an
  • The following theses come out of my experience with a faculty seminar at CU 麻豆影院 on the subject of Teaching with Technology sponsored by Arts and Sciences Support of Education Through Technology (ASSETT). I do not claim any sort of
  • As freshmen at CU, Bryce Eaton and Natalie Rechter expected the usual challenges. Leaving high school for college means navigating an entirely new social atmosphere, succeeding in classes like Classical Mechanics and Mathematical Methods, and
  • He was never a good student. Bored in the classroom, he would rarely raise his hand, shuffling reluctantly from class to class, obviously unengaged. When his middle school offered a game design class he enrolled apprehensively, but the prospect of
  • Teaching With Technology, Fall 2012 Photograph by Nigora AzimovaEach semester, a small group of CU professors who share a passion for experimenting with technology hold regular meetings in the Technology Learning Center, sometimes with a large plate
  • "I don't think it's my job to make students come to class,"聺 says Dr. Ingrid Ulbrich, chemistry instructor at CU 麻豆影院. Nor does she think it important to take attendance, though she cares deeply about her student's success. During the spring and
  • Whether we are standing, walking or running, the force we exert on the ground mediates all our bodily movements. Measuring this force was a considerably difficult process, but now an easier and cheaper system exists through employing a Nintendo Wii
  • "I've been gaming since I was a little kid",聺 brags Trent Begin, a TTA at ASSETT."Well I was playing Flight Simulator",聺 says TTA Casey Zahorik, pausing dramatically as he leans back in his swivel chair, when I was three
  •  鈥淵ou鈥檙e doing it right when you鈥檙e playing,鈥 says Dr. Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin.  This may seem like a strange statement to make in an upper-level class where students use complex technology and challenging archival material to re-imagine
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