Flip and feedback
“Flipping” lectures and homework is being tested at some schools, reports Ed Week. In a Khan Academy pilot in suburban Los Altos, California (where I live), students in grades 5-8 watch Khan’s online...
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Flipped Classrooms Are Here to Stay write two teachers who flipped chemistry classes at their Colorado high school. Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams recorded lectures and told students to watch the...
View ArticleE-texts will read students
In a year or so, when students read e-textbooks, the books may be reading students’ “engagement” and study habits. Community college instructors are “flipping” — putting lectures online to use class...
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From campfire to holodeck
Educational futurist David Thornburg calls for redesigning classrooms in his new book, From the Campfire to the Holodeck. Learning environments should provide Campfire spaces (one person lectures),...
View ArticleDaily tests cut achievement gap
Daily online testing raised college students’ performance in a University of Texas experiment. The achievement gap between lower- and upper-middle class students narrowed by 50 percent in a large...
View ArticleActive learning helps first-gen students
A Biology 1 class that required active learning — as opposed to listening to lectures — raised test scores, especially for first-generation and black students, according to a new University of North...
View ArticleIs traditional instruction that boring?
I have been puzzling over the op-ed “Plato’s War on Play” by Mark C. Carnes, professor of history at Barnard College and author of Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College. (The op-ed...
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Structure, quizzes improve lectures
Are College Lectures Unfair? asks Annie Murphy Paul in the New York Times. I think would be more useful to ask whether college lectures are less effective than they could be — for everyone. “Active...
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Listen to the ‘sage of the stage’
College lectures are under attack by advocates of “active learning,” writes Molly Worthen, a University of North Carolina history professor. There’s nothing new about that. “The lecturer pumps...
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Laptops in lecture class: Grades go down
Using a laptop to take notes in a college lecture classes is linked to lower grades — especially for weaker students — in two new studies, reports Dan Willingham.
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