Comments on: Holiday Best Wishes http://www.teachingprofessor.com/articles/holiday-best-wishes A teaching and learning conference. Mon, 23 May 2011 15:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Richard Young http://www.teachingprofessor.com/articles/holiday-best-wishes/comment-page-1#comment-2965 Richard Young Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:52:33 +0000 http://www.teachingprofessor.com/?p=1350#comment-2965 No, there is never a shortage of ideas. I won't go so far to say that all of them are good or even should be tried, but statistically when we have such a flow some good ones are bound to come along. Now that said, I would also suggest that if you haven't read Thomas Kuhn, do so. He's the philosopher that popularized the word "paradigm", but was quick to point out that a discipline's best ideas usually come from those outside of it primarily because they don't know enough to NOT ask the stupid questions. The real value that The Teaching Professor delivers is probably because its readers come from so many different disciplines. Sure, I might be a "teaching professor" but my main focus is logistics and competitive strategy. I don't do pedagogical research, but many of my best teaching ideas are ones that I adopted after stubbing my toe on them elsewhere. Best to all for the season, Rich No, there is never a shortage of ideas. I won’t go so far to say that all of them are good or even should be tried, but statistically when we have such a flow some good ones are bound to come along.

Now that said, I would also suggest that if you haven’t read Thomas Kuhn, do so. He’s the philosopher that popularized the word “paradigm”, but was quick to point out that a discipline’s best ideas usually come from those outside of it primarily because they don’t know enough to NOT ask the stupid questions.

The real value that The Teaching Professor delivers is probably because its readers come from so many different disciplines. Sure, I might be a “teaching professor” but my main focus is logistics and competitive strategy. I don’t do pedagogical research, but many of my best teaching ideas are ones that I adopted after stubbing my toe on them elsewhere.

Best to all for the season,
Rich

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