Alpha Players and In-Class Group Work
File this under “designing board games is a lot like teaching”… I was recently reading the new issue of Senet magazine, a …
The Perils of Lecture Class
Since I don’t have enough going on (apparently), I recently started another newsletter. It’s called Intentional Learning, and it’s focused on strategies …
Active Learning Classrooms and Equity
A new study on active learning classrooms (ALCs) was recently covered in both Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle of Higher Education. …
Puzzling Over the Jigsaw
Last fall, I was asked to lead a workshop at our law school on fostering student engagement in the classroom. Every legal …
Active Learning Classrooms: What We Know
Last fall at the POD Network conference for educational developers, I interviewed D. Christopher Brooks for Vanderbilt’s Leading Lines podcast. I met …
In Defense of Continuous Exposition by the Teacher
The New York Times published an essay this weekend by education writer Annie Murphy Paul titled “Are College Lectures Unfair?” In the …