How Do Students Process the Content of a Lecture?

Teaching Students How to Be Better Listeners Ask students to write for one minute on “What do I hope to get out of this lecture?” or “What was the most important point in the reading assignment for the day?” Another strategy is to ask students to listen to you for 5-15 minutes without taking notes …

Academically Adrift

The book highlights four core important lessons: 1. Students attending 4-year universities are too often “academically adrift.” Undergraduate learning is rarely prioritized. 2. Gains in student performance are disturbingly low – a pattern on limited learning is prevalent on contemporary college campuses. 3. Individual learning in higher education is characterized by persisten and/or growing inequality. …

Observing Professors In Action

Class 1: Chris Palmer – Producing for Environmental Filmmaking When you walk into the classroom there is a table full of snacks – candy, wheat thins, guacamole, fruit. Apparently each student is assigned a day to bring snacks for the class break. Already I like this professor’s style. Food makes people happy. He writes the …

The Clumsy Cook

I was in college when I started my ritual of making pancakes for lovers on Sunday mornings. The Jewish boy used to love the way I sliced up the bananas and tucked them into each hotcake with the tips of my fingers. It sure was messy… I rarely washed the bowl after cooking because a full …

The End

YOU ALWAYS RACE IN THE LAST STRETCH… For the past year and a half I have been trying to communicate with you so that I could be more successful, but you were always distracted by your “extracurricular activities… Image of B-O-Y screwing blond assistant… Cutline: Does this mean I’m getting a promotion? Image of B-O-Y …

The Middle

Gysela’s dreams were coming true. The B-O-Y in charge gave her money to start her own publication, however, it was about a subject she knew nothing about. She tried not to let that fact stop her. She hired freelance writers, built a web site…It was fun and happy until a major company deadline came around. …

Art Basel 2007

Is everyone just pretending? I am pretending that I am stronger than I really am. If I’m fake, then everyone I attract is just a reflection of myself. And it seems that there is nothing I hate more than fake people. Therefore, I must hate myself. Why am I pretending? Who do I think I …