Some of Dr. Borden’s favorite infographics as seen in various keynotes, workshops, and other sessions.
Blogs Archive
Don’t Quote Me On That
I hope you find the following quotes about education, innovation, and transformation as inspiring, cutting, or controversial as I do. I hope they parlay into great arguments, excellent debates, and help you weave a tapestry of ideas that have meaning and importance to what academia is supposed to do. Enjoy.
Students vs Faculty: Survival of the Fittest?
Some young people are not only downplaying the need to act in a communal way regarding covid-19, they are suggesting that it is a way to weed out those from an older, out-of-touch generation using terms like Boomer Eraser and Boomer Remover.
eLearning Isn’t Working?
The reporting throughout the shelter-in-place has seen darker and darker shadows fall on the subject of eLearning, whether K-12 or in Higher Education.
My Most Requested Keynote Component – Quarantinote Series #10
This “bit” has it all. It is unusual, fairly creative, involves music (singing and playing by me, actually), and is fun / funny while still making a valuable point. It has to do with the Web 2.0 mantra: Create, Consume, Remix, and Share. The question? Does that apply to learning? Or is that a recipe for plagiarism and theft?
Quarantinotes Series #9 – One of These Things is Not Like the Other
Education is one of the last cultural bastions of one-size-fits-all in delivery and assessment as we seek out students who are “average”, just as we seek those “above average” and “below average.” Our entire infrastructure is based on grading students up and down, based on how they “compare” to other students.
Quarantinotes Series #8 – Thinking about Learning and Learning about Thinking
Most teachers still teach based on what “feels” right to them, which is often really a replication of practices used during their own education. After all, if they are learned people and those methods were used for them, then most people reason that the methods employed were correct. Again, we see confirmation bias at work.
Quarantinotes Series #7 – To Re-open OR Not To Re-Open
…the following video is what I would do about re-opening colleges and universities as of May 12, 2020. (Yes, this will change by May 13, 2020 – all good models change with every new variable and data-point!) It’s a 20 minute strategy video that, if nothing else, may give you some perspectives from (yet) another world view. As I state at the end, my thinking and 50 cents won’t buy you a cup of coffee, but I hope you know that they are thoughtful of many, many, MANY inputs.
Quarantinotes Series #6 – Curriculum Integration (Without it, Liberal Arts and Society may be in Trouble)
Could curriculum integration be the only real way to help society embrace a “Liberal Arts” context by which to flourish and thrive?
Quarantinotes Series #5 – Curriculum Bloat, Interleaving, and the Forgetting Curve
I will share with you two strategies to consider for both mitigating drift/bloat, as well as helping students actually learn. (By learn, I mean remembering the information AFTER your class is over, not just acing the final and forgetting it all.)