The course is Geoscience 100: Introductory Geology, and on this particular day, music spills out through the closed doors as the students await playbills for a lecture called “Beginnings.” The lecture is a musical-video-poetic performance in four acts that communicates scientific concepts from the big bang, to the origin of our solar system and our planet. More...
When you consider how children learn words, you might think of this kind of scenario: an adult points to an object (for example, a dog), clearly says a word in isolation (dog!), and the child immediately understands what the word means. More...
When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada concluded its work almost four years ago, it provided a road map for Canadians to follow. That road map, the 94 Calls to Action, aims to “revitalize the relationship between Aboriginal Peoples and Canadian society” after more than 100 years of the traumatic and systemic removal of Indigenous children from their families. More...
If you step into a classroom in South Africa’s Limpopo province during a lesson, you’re very likely to hear the teacher speaking more than one language. She might begin a sentence in English, and then switch to Sepedi – the African language most commonly spoken as a mother tongue in the province. More...
By Barbara Fister. Information gerrymandering makes us all less likely to compromise – and that’s not good for democracy.
I was intrigued when I saw some coverage of a recent article in Nature that coined an intriguing phrase: information gerrymandering. The six authors come from disparate fields that are not ones I particularly follow on a regular basis – biology, economics, and environmental change. But their experiment adds an intriguing wrinkle to the more information-science and sociology-of-information circles where I tend to eavesdrop. More...
It's back to school time for many of us. Before the memories and lessons from the summer fade is a great time to reflect on Summer 2019 and plan for Summer 2020. Did you meet your summer goals? Which projects have been pushed into the fall and how will you find time for them? What lessons have you learned for managing expectations for next summer. More...
By John Warner. How many of you teach in rooms not conducive to learning?
Our classroom was too warm. More...
By John Warner. A little bit of friction is necessary for learning. The emotion-reading AI chatbots have no useful purpose if education is going to live up to the meaning of the word. More...
The roar over high college costs is based on a fundamental failure among consumers to understand the distinction between (a) the cost of educating a student, and (b) the tuition price a college charges to educate that same student. It’s true the cost of higher education has increased over time, just like everything else. And most of the institutions I know do a reasonably commendable job of managing college costs. More...From D1 to D3, athletic programs drive a lot of interest in colleges and universities. Embrace it, and find ways to let athletics showcase your institutional brand. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
