If Students Can Think Better, Why Don’t They?
If students can think better why don’t they?
This question sits at the top of a chart that may represent the QEP topic for the next five years.
You may remember that the name we assign to the QEP is Learning Power. That’s the focus of a larger initiative
we refer to as Learning to Learn. So why [...]
Posted on: 3 May 2012 | 9:32 pm
Knowledge is Created through Conversation
In an earlier blog post I mentioned an activity I’ve been doing with students lately in which I ask a generative question: Where does knowledge come from? But I didn’t mention my favorite answer: Knowledge comes from asking questions.
My purpose in doing the activity is to present research (broadly conceived) as a learning to learn [...]
Posted on: 26 April 2012 | 8:47 pm
Neil Postman said that the single most significant intellectual tool that human beings have is their ability to ask good questions.
I've recently been doing an activity with students in which I pose a question: Where does knowledge come from? The students work in groups, of course, and they have to reach agreement on what they believe to be the single best answer.
Posted on: 19 April 2012 | 9:33 pm
Chronicle of Higher education: My Daily Read
In the Library’s Teaching Collection we have a few periodicals which might be worth the short invigorating walk you’d have to take to browse them.
They’re in print, of course, which seems almost quaint now. But there is a certain kind of joy in the tactile experience of reading real professional journals. We have thousands tucked [...]
Posted on: 18 April 2012 | 9:32 pm
T&L Blog Relaunches with a Learning Focus
As this semester begins to wind down (can you believe it?) I’m going to do something I’ve been intending to do since January. Today I’m announcing the relaunch of the Teaching and Learning Blog. What’s different? And why now? You may wisely ask.
What’s different is that I”m opening it up to [...]
Posted on: 13 April 2012 | 2:46 pm