Past Seminars - Graduate College of Education. Following are the lecturers and topics of past seminars of the Distinguished Lecturer Series.
Extensive Reading and Listening and the Foreign Language Curriculum The sessions open with an overview of what Extensive Reading (ER) and Extensive Listening (EL) are. Educational Thinkers. Videos to help you rethink education, learning, & school. Having children causes one to (re)think seriously about education and the role of school.
Education obviously is the most powerful thing in the world. And yet the old Mark Twain chestnut — "I never let school get in the way of my education" — speaks to the core of my own thinking regarding education. I am not an expert in education by any means, but like almost everyone, I have strong ideas based on my personal experiences going through formal, mass schooling. Personally, the best years where I learned the most and was inspired to study and learn on my own were surely the six years of elementary school, and then university and graduate school. One thing I am sure of is that while listening carefully to teachers (and to the masters, etc.) is important, the real learning requires lots and lots of doing, not just listening.