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Dec 01, 2012
Music and Study
While research suggests that alternating your study location (e.g. home, library, coffee shop) aids in memory retention, adjusting the auditory environment in order to concentrate is a personal issue that varies from individual to individual. Some apply ear plugs or noise cancelling headphones, while others prefer to loop a favorite track. There are also a number of websites providing different types of ambient noise, ranging from natural sounds to simple white noise. The NYIT Library subscribes to Naxos Music Library (NML). A collection of close to 1 million tracks and 70,000 discs, NML is the world´s largest online classical music library,… More
Author: sebastien_marion
Sep 24, 2012
How to Search Every Library Catalog in New York State at Once
Scenario 1 I would like to know if any books have been written about a given topic, or, say, by a specific person. More so, I am not interested in whether the NYIT Library owns a particular book, as I understand that I can either request it through interlibrary loan, or recommend that it be purchased and added to the collection. Scenario 2 I would like to locate a library in the city, state or country, that subscribes to a particular journal, or magazine, or that has a specific title in its holdings. I have an International Standard Book Number (ISBN),… More
Author: sebastien_marion
May 08, 2013
Weekly Teaching Notes: 2012-2013 Index
I've enjoyed the conversations I've had with many of you this year, as you responded to me – in person or in email – about a particular idea. Below is a list of all the Weekly Teaching Notes from the 2012-2013 academic year, with direct links to each one. Weekly Teaching Notes will break for the summer and resume again in the fall. At the Center for Teaching and Learning, we are here throughout the summer and are eager to assist you with your teaching, course design or redesign, scholarly writing, and preparing your reappointment/tenure/promotion portfolios. (All consultations are voluntary… More
Author: francine_glazer
May 01, 2013
NYIT Faculty Talk About Plagiarism
“None of you would think of putting your hand in my pocketbook and stealing my wallet. Plagiarism is like putting your hand in my brain and stealing my thoughts.” – Linda Comac, Director, English Language Institute Last month, the Center for Teaching and Learning offered a two-week online workshop on plagiarism, with the assistance of six English faculty members and two campus deans who reviewed workshop materials, facilitated the discussion, and explained NYIT’s academic integrity policy and procedures. The online format enabled faculty and staff from different campuses to exchange ideas: 32 people participated from our campuses in Abu Dhabi,… More
Author: francine_glazer
Apr 23, 2013
21st Century Literacies
No different than a baseball manager changing hitters to face the incoming left-handed pitcher, students are keenly aware of the averages: the more education, the greater the prospects of income, health and choice. They enroll to earn credentials, and with any luck discover something to care about and nurture. But are credentials enough? Sufficient? Obviously, no. As an effective educator you express your passion through learning, a lifelong process of attention, priority, and discovery. Likewise, our students must acquire the skills and literarcies to support a lifetime. Knowing how to manage personal knowledge. Knowing how to participate in learning networks.… More
Author: francine_glazer
Apr 17, 2013
The Crossword Puzzle as Threshold to Higher Order Thinking
One of the most difficult tasks we encounter with students is moving them beyond a mere accumulation of factual material in class. Often our transmission of lower-order thinking skills (remembering and understanding) is somewhat akin to the proverbial giving of a fish to the hungry individual. Increasingly in the 21st century, we are recognizing the need to teach our students how to fish; that is, the skills for higher-order thinking. One effective threshold to the top level on Bloom’s revised taxonomy (Anderson and Krathwohl, 2001) of learning, creating, is perception shifting, or learning to look at a given issue or… More
Author: francine_glazer
Apr 09, 2013
Gamification as Motivator
There’s an intriguing new theory of learning out there called Gamification. While this may sound like educational gaming, actually it is not. Gamification suggests that our students (at least the digital natives among them) are used to the kind of incentive structures that are built into digital games. If that’s the case, why can’t we incorporate similar incentive structures into how we teach? That’s the question that gamification scholars are exploring---and you don’t even need technology to do it. The theory is really about motivation and engagement. In understanding gamification, it helps to think about your own experience with games.… More
Author: francine_glazer
