Fairness in grading is important to teachers and students. I am trying a new technique with the hope of increasing fairness. I have invited members of the Denver/Boulder business community to serve on a “Board of Evaluators” for my consumer behavior class. Later this semester, students will be creating short YouTube presentation on branding. The […]
Month: August 2013
Twitter in and out of my classroom
Twitter recently surpassed 200 million users, and it is about to get a few more. I am asking my consumer behavior students to use it as part of their course “engagement.” From my syllabus: You will be evaluated based on the quality and quantity of your participation in class and on the clashtag (#m3250), as […]
Why change is hard
I am giving a talk, Change through Comedy (#comedy4change) at SXSW V2V. A few thoughts in advance of the talk: There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. — Niccolo […]
Finding funny in the lab
Joel Warner and I were recently asked by Huffington Post to comment on philosopher Daniel Dennett’s TED talk. Our response can be found here — or below. Time to put humor under the microscope Daniel Dennett makes a good point in his TED talk, Cute, Sexy, Sweet, Funny, when he argues our sense of humor […]