Just like the title says

Discussion over at In Socrates Wake about teaching students argumentation.

Teaching philosophy in prison.

A nice framework for laptop use in the classroom. Also, good comments to be read.

Brief discussion of using small groups in undergrad philosophy classes. I've found this to be a particular challenge: I'm afraid that students aren't equipped to understand topics without direct guidance, yet they always say in their evaluations that the group projects are where they got the most out of the class.

Great post on an alternative framework for teaching phil of sci by focusing on problems in the special sciences rather than general issues in the philosophy of science such as realism, explanation, etc.

Brighouse discusses his contribution to an anthology on grade inflation. From the post: "I started off assuming (with no real evidence) that grade inflation was real and believing (for no real reasons) that it was bad; I discovered that there is no evidence of grade inflation (which doesn’t, of course, mean that it doesn’t exist) and that the reasons for thinking it would be bad if it did exist are pretty weak."