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Interactive Teaching at Harvard
Harvard’s Initiative for Teaching and Learning has posted videos of their most recent conference. The…
It Ain’t What You Know, It’s…Oh, No, Sorry, It IS...
I sense that the tide is beginning to turn on the knowledge-versus-skills debate, ‘21st Century’…
To Ban or Not to Ban: A Usefully Provocative Answer
For every enthusiastic voice championing the use of laptops in classrooms, we hear equally skeptical…
Laptops in the Classroom: The Debate Continues…
In at least this one college classroom, non-academic laptop use is inversely related to performance…
17 Ways to Fold Sheep
Here’s a mental puzzle to start off your day: Imagine you’ve got 17 sheep and…
Teacher Evaluations: Your Thoughts?
A report by the non-partisan Brookings Institute says that teacher evaluations are “a waste of time…
Click Here: The Technology of Retrieval Practice in the Classroom
Back in the dark ages, when I was just cutting my teaching teeth, we teachers…