Lately when I talk with faculty members about their courses and classrooms, I often have to say something that few of them want to hear: Your undergraduates need you to teach them “studenting” skills.
This same principle applies to education: If students never meet resistance from mistakes, they fail to develop the ...
“We are not here to teach skills.” (The word “skills” often comes out covered in stank.) “We teach students how to think critically, communicate clearly, and analyze interestingly and those are things ...
My latest story, on the decline of students’ reading endurance and reading ability, has resonated with educators. Judging from how many people have read or shared the piece, it appears that a lot of ...
Heidi Lawrence’s path to awe started more than a decade ago when she began working on ideas for her Ph.D. in English literature. Exploring Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time and other adolescent ...
Australian learning platform expands to U.S. classrooms with debut at NABT 2025 in St. Louis.
Rather than study how to use AI, students in this machine learning class work with the math that makes the AI work.
K–12 schools can no longer stand on the sidelines with AI. They must make professional development around the emerging technology a priority. K–12 schools looking to adequately prepare students to ...
Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...
It is not the academic integrity issue that looms the largest in higher education’s use of generative AI apps. Rather, it is our students’ need to gain knowledge, experience and skills with the ...
A Champaign teaching kitchen working with hundreds of students says that after two long years, they have a structure that ...