Gary Natriello – Page 15

Cheating Online – Policing and Pedagogical Responses

July 27, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Writing in Inside Higher Education, Doug Lederman discusses the current concern about the level of student cheating in online courses, particularly those hastily moved online in the spring of 2020 due to the pandemic. Two […]

FBI Use of Facial Recognition Sparks ACLU Response

July 22, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

In an article for the ACLU, director Kade Crockford explains the use of facial recognition data (as well as data on our irises, walking patterns, and voices) by the FBI. Apparently, the use of this […]

Teaching with Twitch – The Value of Terrible Ideas

July 12, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

See what happened when an NYU professor streamed his class about Twitch on Twitch. NYU Game Center professor Robert Yang reports on his experience teaching a class using Twitch. There are a number of interesting […]

Chewy Sugar Cookies

July 4, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Chewy Sugar Cookies

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Enhancing Production for Online Communication

July 4, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Developing a more robust set of tools for online communication can be an important element in transitioning to fully digital operations. With more and more interaction mediated by audio video communication systems such as Zoom, […]

A Dozen Will Do It – Class Size and Online Teaching

July 3, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Derek Newton reports on a study by Lawrence Tomei and Douglas Nelson in which they consider the maximum size of online, hybrid, and on campus classes if we would like them to be taught well […]

Moving Beyond Exams

July 1, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Writing in the World Economic Forum, Conrad Hughes asks whether the pandemic provides an opportunity to disrupt what he refers to as “the social ritual of examination.” With major examination programs cancelled schools have turned […]

A Time for Big Projects

June 22, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

For those of us interested in self-directed learning and project-based learning, the closing of schools due to the pandemic provides an ideal opportunity for students to engage in major projects. Such conditions are a test […]

Grounds for Play and Learning

June 21, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

In a report in the World Economic Forum, Matluba Kahn discusses a project to transform an elementary school lot in Bangladesh into an active playground for both recreation and learning. The project is interesting both […]

Surveillance Infrastructure – Time to Dismantle?

June 17, 2020 Gary Natriello 0

Writing in Medium, Jathan Sadowski argues that now is the time to begin dismantling the extensive infrastructure of surveillance that has grown up in recent years. This would include genuine efforts to stop the use […]