Students doing group work Where does Learning Take Place? Whenever I ask this question in my workshops, even seasoned educators tell me that learning takes place in the work that students produce or they gesture to the walls and ceiling, “Here. Learning is all around us.” Learning isn’t in the classroom or in books or Read More
A colleague of mine, a biologist, (let’s call him Ken) teaches an upper-level college course on genetics. Course requirements include the usual—class participation, quizzes, exams, and …a scientific paper. Each semester, when Ken mentions the paper the classroom erupts in shrieks and murmurs. Immediately after the noise dies down, hands shoot into the air and Read More