In Defence of Blackboards

As an advocate of new teaching and learning innovations, I still find myself falling back on the traditional chalk and talk for my own lecturing as well as having to defend the use of such an archaic practice to the powers that be within my institution. Indeed, after a couple of years running Bifurcations, Catastrophes and Symmetry I felt myself…

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Covid Teaching – A Late Reflection

As the memory of Covid lockdown starts to fade, I’ve rediscovered a draft I’d started on moving lectures online so thought I should revisit it and get it finished before I’ve completely forgotten. Who knows, perhaps I’ll need to refer to this post in the future if we, heaven forbid, get another one! I’ll concentrate the example on one of…

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