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A case for practicals before knowledge
As part of my feedback from doing the teaching given by my peer, one of the comments was to teach the capabilities of what we are doing in the Physical Computing practical lessons, before actually doing the practice part of the lesson. I used to do this, and found that it sets expectations higher than…
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Tech/Lecturer crossovers
When working as a technician (and not as a lecturer, as I do both) I have noticed a different, more casual behaviour in the students, yet, they do recognise me in both roles as they will come to me for technical AND academic tutorials. In the lectures, I can go over things that I have…
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Quiz or not to quiz?
I like to quiz our students at the end of our structured lessons. This rounds-off the lesson in a fun way and brings joy to students, it might even make them stay. There are some issues with the sheer length of the sessions we run at UAL. I can understand how if a class was…
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“I Teach computing as an art material.”
This is what I tell people I do at UAL. I generally get a perplexed look and I have to explain, when for example down the pub meeting new people, that I teach computing to artists for use in their practice. If I still have their attention and they are curious I will delve deeper…