by Saif Ali | Nov 14, 2016 | News, pedagogy, SIF Projects
During the Spring 2016 semester, I started a physics education project with Dr. Thoms of the Physics Department at GSU. I wrote a blog about it that can be found here. In that blog, I outlined the project and what Dr. Thoms and I are setting out to do. We have...
by Ashley Cheyemi McNeil | Oct 7, 2016 | active learning, digital pedagogy, pedagogy
As a first-year Student Innovation Fellow, I’ve been learning the ropes this past month. The projects that are encompassed in the SIF domain are multiple, collaborative by nature and design, and have more arms than a centipede. This kind of learning is, I have to...
by Monica Cook | Sep 22, 2016 | Atlanta connections, Blog, News, pedagogy
The latest batch of TEDxGeorgiaStateU talks from April was finally released, and among them are talks by two SIFs: Krisna Patel and me. The title of my talk was “Failure is Necessary to Discovery in STEM.” My talk touches on both the broad-reaching and the personal...
by Monica Cook | Apr 2, 2016 | active learning, Atlanta connections, pedagogy
Recent research has shown that having greater diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, ability, and thought greatly improves the output of ideas in workplace and educational environments. (Incidentally, diversity of thought often comes naturally after ensuring...
by Monica Cook | Feb 29, 2016 | active learning, innovation, pedagogy, SIF Projects
There is a pervasive meme in the collective consciousness that science is a purely rational pursuit with no room for bringing in personal experiences or points of view. This, in my experience, is entirely false. Science is fundamentally a creative pursuit. Good...
by Thomas Breideband | Feb 1, 2016 | active learning, digital humanities, innovation, pedagogy
There has been a tremendous amount of discussions concerning the goals and practices of Digital Humanities within the setting of undergraduate instruction, and I welcome not only the increased attention but also the marked shift that has taken place on how this...
