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Articles and Links (When Useful)

Episode 26 - Are X-Labs the Future of Learning and Thinking?
  • https://www.chronicle.com/article/No-Textbooks-No-Lectures-and/245640

Episode 22 - Infusing PowerPoint with Critical Thinking
  • Isseks, M. (2011). How powerpoint is killing education. Educational Leadership, 75, 74-76.
  • Craig, R.J., Amernic, J.H. (2006). PowerPoint presentation technology and the dynamics of teaching. Innovative Higher Education, 31, 147-160.​

Episode 20 - Grading: Past Problems, Future Solutions
  • Brookhart, S.M., Guskey, T.R., McMillan, J.H., & Smith, J.K. (2016). A century of grading research: Meaning and value int he most common educational measure. Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology, 2.  https://uknowledge.uky.edu/edp_facpub/2
  • Tippin, GK., Lafreniere, K., Page, S. (2012). Student perception of academic grading: personality, academic orientation, and effort. ​Active Learning in Higher Education, 13(1), 51-61. 

Episode 19 - Critical Thinking, Hoaxes, and Constructivism
  • Mounk, Y. (2018). What an Audacious Hoax Reveals about Academia. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/
  • Boghossian, P. (2012). Critical Thinking and Constructivism: Mambo Dog Fish to the Banana Patch.  Journal of Philosophy of Education, 46(1), 73-84.


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