Terri Enns

Clinical Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

[Rick Hasen @rickhasen]

Where, oh where, are all the trolls who told me I wasn't really a professor, that I don't understand constitutional law, that Texas was the case where the Supreme Court was going to hand the election to Trump? Where are you?

[Terri Enns @TerriEnns]

@kywh @JLWIonline @montegsmith And Monte and I just had a great reminder of cognitive overload and the inability to manage too much new information! Apologies for our inelegant use of @ and #! It was the first use of Twitter for each of us. #JLWIchat

[Terri Enns @TerriEnns]

@JLWIonline One of my biggest challenges in teaching is getting myself back to a position of not knowing. We teachers have so many schema that we use to understand the law; our first semester students have none. What did I not know in the first semester of law school? Everything. @JLWIchat

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@JLWIonline I use techniques from Mary Beth Beazley's Self-Grade Drafts article. Using colors and markings on their own papers is really helpful to many students. I wait for a later draft rather than on an early draft. I sometimes have them mark up samples earlier. @JLWIchat @JLWIonline

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@LoriDelaneyJ @montegsmith @JLWIonline I reuse problems, but I change genders and names and facts. In addition to Monte's point about our own load, by knowing the relevant cases I can more easily diagnose student problems that arise from inability to understand the cases. @JLWIchat @LoriDelaneyJ @montegsmith

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@JLWIonline I've never had a student blame the reader when the student has been assigned the role of the reader! The problems lie with the writer! It seems that being given a reader role really helps them see problems with the writing itself. #JLWIchat

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@montegsmith @JLWIonline I find a huge amount of cognitive load is taken up learning substantive law that I try to avoid the law being so much of the focus. It's a matter of what you want students to be learning at any given time. @JLWIchat

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@LoriDelaneyJ @kywh @JLWIonline In-class self-editing can be very helpful. Much less stress. It doesn't serve all of the same purposes, because students are much better at critiquing something they didn't write. They read too much of what is inside their heads rather than on the paper. #JLWIchat

[Terri Enns @TerriEnns]

@JLWIonline @montegsmith I have used peer review, though not much during first semester. Students get anxious about critiquing their peer and are also self-protective about their own writing. Those issues add to extrinsic cognitive load.

[Terri Enns @TerriEnns]

@JLWIonline @montegsmith Thanks to all who join us today.