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Bookmarks: Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool
Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 2:59am MST
"'Students have to be active in developing their knowledge,' he says. 'They can't passively assimilate it.' This is something many people have known intuitively for a long time — the physicists just came up with the hard data. Their work, along with research by cognitive scientists, provides a compelling case against lecturing" -
Journal: Pre School
Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 2:25am MST
As we start to think about school choice, I find it helpful to remind myself that (a) decisions we make now can still be changed later, and (b) real learning is not confined to or limited by the classroom.
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Bookmarks: What If Middle-Class Jobs Disappear?
Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 2:12am MST
"These trends serve to limit the availability of well-defined jobs. If a job can be characterized by a precise set of instructions, then that job is a candidate to be automated or outsourced to modestly educated workers in developing countries."