Blogged essays, twittering professors, personalized robotic tutors, and other technological pixie dust are all wonderful, but before asking what are the appropriate technologies for a better education system, we must understand when and how students learn. I’ve asked myself this question over the past few weeks and here’s what I’ve come up with. When I [...]
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Call me a radical, but I have a growing notion that a professor spewing forth information to dozens of students playing classroom stenographer is perhaps not the best way to educate the next generation. Here is my favorite idea for a better classroom experiences that I’ve pieced together from friends, my own experiences, and daydreaming [...]
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In case your life has been incomplete with the lack of activity here over the last week or so, I assure you, it is for a good cause. I’ve disappeared into Code Cave with fellow cave dwellers Casey Stark and Daniel Bachhuber to work on a pair of websites – CoLab and Notetorious. CoLab is [...]
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