Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques - 19 views
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“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.”
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they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners
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Sitting passively and taking notes is just not a way of learning. Yet lectures are 99 percent of how we teach!
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Websites and laptops have been around for years now, but we haven’t fully thought through how to integrate them with teaching so as to conceive of courses differently.
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“In the standard approach, the emphasis in class is on the first, and the second is left to the student on his or her own, outside of the classroom
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you have to flip that, and put the first one outside the classroom, and the second inside
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We have to train people to tackle situations they have not encountered before. Most instructors avoid this like the plague, because the students dislike it. Even at Harvard, we tend to keep students in their comfort zone. The first step in developing those skills is stepping into unknown territory.
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hey’d much rather sit there and listen and take notes. Some will say, ‘I didn’t pay $47,000 to learn it all from the textbook. I think you should go over the material from the book, point by point, in class.’
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It’s no accident that most elementary schools are organized that way.
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But ultimately, learning is a social experience.
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Perhaps the key is to coax students not only out of their rooms, but into each other’s minds.
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Great article that brings added depth to the notion of flipped classroom and what we've always know to be great teaching/pedagogy/andragogy
