Volunteers needed as field assistants for the project:
Evolution and Socio-Ecology of small Mammals in
the Succulent Karoo of South Africa
From May 2010 onwards
Opportunity: This is a great opportunity for
anybody who wants to get more experience in field
work relating to evolution, ecology
One problem with many active learning methods is that they constrain
when and how the student is to learn the material. In a traditional
situation, I can attend lecture/lab, read the textbook, study with
friends, study alone, decide our book sucks and use another one, look
up material online, try p
I think that Derek's "older gentleman" friend may have an idealistic view of
why students went to college back in the remote 60's. When I entered college
in 1954 (a good one, an Ivy League university) there was a reception for the
scholarship students at which I met the Dean of Admissions. He im
Hi,
I want to briefly respond to David Lawrence's comment from several days ago,
about evaluation scores declining when he switched to active learning. This
comment probably hit home for anyone who has tried active learning:
> >>> I watched my evaluation scores decline when I switched to "active
A good friend of mine, an older gentleman who has worked as president for an
environmental NGO in the northeast for years, put it to me in a particularly
striking way. He said, and I am paraphrasing, "In terms of education, the
reality in America is that a lot of people are going to college who
