Guest Blogger: Heather Danforth Heather, an elementary school teacher in rural Wyoming, is working with The Art of Learning and sharing her classroom experiences… As I read and re-read passages from The Art of Learning, I recognized the potential of many of the ideas in this book to help my students (and me) to be …
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Multitasking Virus in our Classrooms (Part II)
By Josh Waitzkin I recently wrote an article about a heartbreaking new trend in our classrooms. In Universities throughout the US, students are surfing the internet, shopping online, Facebooking, and emailing while their professors speak to disengaged minds. One can argue that kids have always passed notes, but this semester’s explosion of multi-tasking is on …
Multitasking Virus in our Classrooms
By Josh Waitzkin A few weeks ago, I returned to the classroom of Dennis Dalton, the most important college professor of my life. From the back of an amphitheater seating several hundred students, I realized how much things had evolved at Columbia and Barnard. The lecture hall was now equipped with a wireless sound system, …
THIRTEEN & WLIW21’s Celebration of Teaching & Learning Event
THIRTEEN & WLIW21’s Celebration of Teaching & Learning will mark an important milestone on March 5 & 6, 2010 in New York City at the Hilton New York – five years of bringing educators together to share experiences, keep pace with the latest thinking in education, inspire creativity and curiosity in classrooms, and shape the …
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