The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work. Wanda Landowska Podcast Stachowiak, B. (2019). Using challenges to motivate learners. Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. In this episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast Michael Wesch, Professor of…
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Everything works somewhere, nothing works everywhere. Dylan Wiliams Podcast Wills, S. (2013). Peter Brantley on annotating the web. The Scholarly Kitchen Podcast. Peter Brantley, the director of scholarly communication at the start-up Hypothes.is, talks about the firm’s efforts to build an open annotation layer on the Web, his thoughts on how in-line annotation differs, in…
Leave a CommentMeasuring students, shaming students, and an open access journal
Published December 1, 2019 by Michael Rowe
The saddest and most ironic practice in schools is how hard we try to measure how students are doing and how rarely we ever ask them. Amy Fast Podcast David Manheim on “Goodhart’s Law and why metrics fail. Rationally Speaking podcast. What they’re usually doing is following the rules that they’ve been given, to achieve…
Leave a CommentThe case against education, principles for learning, and human restoration
Published November 1, 2019 by Michael Rowe
Too many classrooms at all levels of schooling now resemble a ‘dead zone,’ where any vestige of critical thinking, self-reflection and imagination quickly migrate to sites outside of the school only to be mediated and corrupted by a corporate-driven media culture. Henry A. Giroux Podcast Wiblin, R. & Harris, R. (2018). Economist Bryan Caplan thinks…
Leave a CommentFor education… always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. W.E.B. Du Bois Podcast Gooblar, D. The Missing Course. Teaching in Higher Ed podcast In this episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Bonnie Stachowiak speaks to David Gooblar about how teachers are almost never…
Leave a CommentJune newsletter
Published June 3, 2019 by Michael Rowe
Hi everyone This is the first of what we hope will be a monthly newsletter from In Beta where we highlight a few things that we think you might find useful, thoughtful, or just plain interesting. The format is really simple: we’ll share three items each month, including 1 podcast (not our own), 1 research…
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