Roger Schank

A noisy classroom is a learning one! One popular strategy to get your kids talking is the “turn and talk” method. 🗣Your Ss turn to a classmate near them and discuss the problem or concept. What strategies do you use to encourage meaningful classroom discussion? #ITeachMath

Overwhelming majority of survey respondents were only interested in campus-based study, with just 10 per cent prepared to countenance fully online learning timeshighereducation.com/new…

Harvard Business School moved first-year MBA and some second-year students to remote learning as breakthrough cases climb bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"It's designed for the wealthy and wealthy schools, and that’s always been what it’s about,” said one former president. chronicle.com/article/colleg…

Is the physical lecture dead? No, say a group of VCs I'm listening to right now: students value "shared listening", even in a traditional lecture format, and turning up to physical lectures gives the "excuse" to stay on campus for a club or society etc.. #THEWAS

When academics do tackle curricular reform, they often focus on improving the structure of a particular course rather than on altering the path to a degree. ow.ly/mGMv50FH1iD

Even Mary Beard, Prof of Classics at Cambridge, in 'Confronting Classics' wrote "many of the arguments now used to justify the learning of Latin are now perilous...honestly if you want to learn French, you'd be better off doing that, not starting with some other language first"