Comments on: Habits Of Two Outstanding Teachers /2009/habits-of-two-outstanding-teachers/ less helpful Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:57:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Hot Links /2009/habits-of-two-outstanding-teachers/#comment-332947 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:57:22 +0000 /?p=4375#comment-332947 […] Konczal, whose high-quality economics blogging has already been covered on this blog, ran a script to parse and analyze the data on the We Are 99% Tumblr. Age […]

]]> By: Elizabeth Lyon /2009/habits-of-two-outstanding-teachers/#comment-244148 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:30:58 +0000 /?p=4375#comment-244148 Dan,
Know that the delight with which you observe Rhett Allain and Mike Konczall translate their passions into an clarified language of understandability is the same delight with which many of us read your blog posts. Thank you!!

]]> By: Ken Burgin /2009/habits-of-two-outstanding-teachers/#comment-244112 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:02:56 +0000 /?p=4375#comment-244112 D’oh! You’ve got it already – oh well…

]]> By: Ken Burgin /2009/habits-of-two-outstanding-teachers/#comment-244111 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:01:23 +0000 /?p=4375#comment-244111 Good post – thanks. And here’s a nice piece of ‘human physics’ your students may enjoy http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/08/05

Cheers – Ken

]]> By: Fabiana /2009/habits-of-two-outstanding-teachers/#comment-244100 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:22:15 +0000 /?p=4375#comment-244100 @Dan Indeed. Yet at university we teach them both an oral and written language that is only relevant within their area of expertise. In fact, I would say we discourage not using such oral or written language. So you could say we fail no matter which way you look at it. I had really not thought of this. And, if I were to go a step further, with the success of open access publishing, shouldn’t we also be considering modifying our ‘in house’ language when we write articles? What is the point of putting things out there if our language in essence continues to make the work inaccessible?

]]> By: Dan Meyer /2009/habits-of-two-outstanding-teachers/#comment-244098 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:56:00 +0000 /?p=4375#comment-244098 @Fabiana, it’s interesting to me that both examples of transcendent expertise DFW cites are oral – IT tech to computer user, oncologist to patient. My experience is that it’s far harder to write colloquially than it is to speak colloquially, which leads to me to believe there are two levels of transcendent expertise here.

]]> By: monika hardy /2009/habits-of-two-outstanding-teachers/#comment-244094 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:19:15 +0000 /?p=4375#comment-244094 simple and fun to motivate/explain the complicated….

nice post dan.

]]> By: Fabiana /2009/habits-of-two-outstanding-teachers/#comment-244093 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:44:56 +0000 /?p=4375#comment-244093 Great post. I teach at tertiary level, and it has never crossed my mind that the when we require students to write papers we do so with the expectation they are written in “scientific publication” language, essentially steering them away from communication outside their area of expertise. Will discuss this with my colleagues. Perhaps building into the written/oral assignments a different modality of expression might go a long way in enhancing communication between, as you exemplify, medics and their patients. Food for thought.

]]> By: Raul /2009/habits-of-two-outstanding-teachers/#comment-244090 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:01:24 +0000 /?p=4375#comment-244090 I love how you’ve described the strengths of these two people and connected the dots as to why they’re good teachers.

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