DJ Strouse

Have you ever taken a standardized test in your life that you thought properly measured the skill it was trying to test? Ever in your daily work found yourself thinking, “Wow! This job is just like that test I took in high school!”? Unless you make your living as a Mechanical Turk, [...]

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 Teach
Teaching someone [...]

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 [...]