1. Melchor C. de Guzman (Criminal Justice) Pamela Neely (Accounting) TEACHING NAKED A BROWN-BAG CELT PRESENTATION MARCH 8, 2013

2. Teaching Naked (from the book) We need to adjust our classrooms to focus less on content and more on application of material to new contexts, development of intellectual curiosity, investment in the material, evaluation, synthesis, challenging personal beliefs, development of higher-level cognitive processing, oral and written communication skills, construction and negotiation of meaning, information literacy, connection of information across disciplines, teamwork, and reflection on the significance of content

3. Teaching Naked (from the book) A college education can (and should) change minds and lives, but it will require some curricular and structural changes to make this happen Higher education has shifted its focus from the professor to the student and from knowledge given to knowledge created As learning has become more interactive, gaming has become the ubiquitous model for understanding and delivering interactive learning Giving students content in smaller chunks and getting them to apply it before more content is provided is how both good education and good apps work

4. Teaching Naked (from the book) We judge apps not by how much content they deliver but by how useful they are at solving our immediate problems We should judge teaching not on how much content it delivers but on how useful it is in advancing the capabilities of our students … discovered that make Harvard freshmen exhibited dualistic thinking, characterized by the beliefs that ideas are either right or wrong, that the professor’s job is to provide facts, and that learning is about taking notes and memorizing for exams College, therefore, is largely about trying to change a growing brain while it still has a lot of growing to do