Education The Joy and the Fear of Learning: Ideas on How to Run an Undergraduate Research Course Learn more about a new approach to undergraduate education, in which students are taught the key life skills that are all too often reserved for graduate school.
Education Any Questions? How to Turn Student Silence into a Conversation I now cringe whenever I hear a speaker say, “Any questions?” Few of us are ever jumping out of our seats with secret unanswered questions. If we had had something
Education Are Some Questions Better Than Others? Assessing Questions with Students [Rubric Download] We think the secret to learning, the secret to progress, the secret to leading, is for the learner to ask great questions. Learn more about how questions drive us forward. Because without the right question, we’ll ever ever get to the right answer.
Education How We Teach Problem-Solving, Or, A Step-by-Step Guide for Having Questions Lead Your Learning Experience This is the fourth in a series of blogs on on questions in the classroom, following Turning Around Question-Asking in Your Class, Learning in a Content-Saturated Environment, and Teaching Via
Education Turning Around Question-Asking In Your Class Three years ago I was nervously facing my first experimental class, a class at the end of which I planned to ask the students what their questions were, and then
Education Learning in a Content-Saturated Environment Mastering existing content is no longer enough; in today’s world we also need to master the process of learning, critiquing, using, and contributing to content. We need to develop
Education Teaching Trigonometry with Inquiry Learning: A First Step? Inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, and exploratory learning are terms we often hear today. Even if we don’t know what they mean in practice (I confess, I am not sure
Education Ambiguity and Nuance — Even In Mathematics Mathematics is often seen as the epitome of a study of hard facts: answers are either right or wrong, concrete algorithms give concrete results, and mathematical claims are either true
Education Teaching One World We all may truly want the same things for our students. A big question started as a little doubt, a little question, as I was thinking about our undergraduate majors
Education Virtual Team Success: 10 Best Practices for Managing a Global, Remote Team [Example] We Live in Different Time Zones and We Work on Different Things Are We Really a Team? “Welcome on board, Sophie!” I cheer over the phone, to our latest scientific
Education What Do Corporate Teamwork and Higher Education Have in Common? Over the past three months, we’ve been talking with more and more people about our online learning tool. And something interesting has happened. We’ve started working with a
Education What Do We Really Need to Be Better Teachers? Compare and contrast: (1) students leaping out of their seats with blazing eyes and changing their lives in the movie “Dead Poets Society,” and (2) the bored, inward gazes or
Education Them, Me and Us: Three Categories of Learning You Should Know The quality education that we need isn’t about what other people have done. It’s about what current students will do. Having just listened to Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast
Education The Culture of Learning: Excellence Without Competition What is the true premise of learning? How do you collaborate in it's purist form?
Education Coursera Present and Coursera Future Some years ago a couple of MIT undergrads told me they no longer went to lecture, because the lectures were videotaped and put online. Watching the lectures online was actually
Education 7.4 Billion Achieving a personal goal isn't easy. So how do you achieve a goal for 7.4 billion people?
Education The Human Context in Learning Math What is mathematics? I am a mathematician and math teacher and I’ve often reflected on the question: What is mathematics? You would think I have a clear and ready
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