DJ Strouse

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 [...]

From the mouth of the professor to the working memory of students to notebooks not to be read again; this is the path of information in Western education.
Closing the Notebooks…
I had the great pleasure to listen to a fascinating lecture by a Sanskrit scholar on the shruti technique used by their monks to quickly learn [...]