Penn & Teller's Teller on How to Be an Effective Teacher Education, at its most engaging, is performance art. From the moment a teacher steps into the classroom, students look to him or her to set the tone and course of study for everyone, from the most enthusiastic to the most apathetic students. Even teachers who have moved away from the traditional lecture format, toward more learner autonomy-supportive approaches such as project-based and peer-to-peer learning, still need to engage students in the process, and serve as a vital conduit between learner and subject matter. Teachers are seldom trained in the performance aspect of teaching, however, and given that every American classroom contains at least one bored, reluctant, or frustrated student, engagement through performance may just be the most important skill in a teacher’s bag of tricks. I asked Teller, a former Latin teacher and the silent half of the magical partnership known as Penn & Teller, about his years as an educator, and the role performance played in his teaching.
Exploring Crossroads and Beauty with Wei Dong | Sotheby's HONG KONG – In anticipation of the forthcoming selling exhibition Crossroads: Wei Dong at Sotheby’s Hong Kong from 29 July to 8 August, Sotheby’s sat down with the artist for an interview. Thank you very much for this opportunity to have you speak about your work and this exhibition. It is an honor for Sotheby’s to host an exhibition of your paintings that spans nearly two decades. You have just moved from New York back to Beijing, which means that Crossroads indeed represents an important transition for you. This exhibition begins with early ink artworks from the late 1990s and includes large paintings on canvas from the late 2000s. Can you tell me a little bit about your transition between mediums and painting styles? Wei Dong: From 2003 to 2010 my works were impulsive and emotional – my newer works are quieter and more intimate. Whenever you look back upon your own works, do they remind you of a specific story or moment in your own life? I was a very lonely child. WD: That’s right.
Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is? | TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript I love a great mystery,and I'm fascinated by the greatest unsolved mystery in science,perhaps because it's personal.It's about who we are,and I can't help but be curious. The mystery is this:What is the relationship between your brainand your conscious experiences,such as your experience of the taste of chocolateor the feeling of velvet? Now, this mystery is not new.In 1868, Thomas Huxley wrote,"How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes aboutas the result of irritating nervous tissueis just as unaccountableas the appearance of the genie when Aladdin rubbed his lamp."Now, Huxley knew that brain activityand conscious experiences are correlated,but he didn't know why.To the science of his day, it was a mystery.In the years since Huxley,science has learned a lot about brain activity,but the relationship between brain activityand conscious experiences is still a mystery.Why? Why have we made so little progress? Now, that's a stunning claim.Could Galileo be right?
Key Issues in Teaching and Learning 2017 | EDUCAUSE Sunsetted: Key Issues in Teaching and Learning For more information regarding the key trends, emerging technologies and practices, and future implications in educational technology, refer to the EDUCAUSE Horizon Report. If you have any questions regarding the annual Key Issues in Teaching and Learning survey, please contact Kathe Pelletier, Director, Teaching and Learning Program, EDUCAUSE. Each year, ELI surveys the higher education community to determine key issues and opportunities in postsecondary teaching and learning. More than 1,400 community members voted, and the following were identified as the 2019 Key Issues. Download the infographic below and share with colleagues, or explore each of the issues more deeply with these resources. Issues, Technologies, and Trends Resources Take a Deeper Dive into the Key Issues 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
The power of film | Playlist Now playing Showing spectacular clips from productions such as Frida, The Tempest and The Lion King, director Julie Taymor describes a life spent immersed in theater and the movies. Filmed right as controversy over her Broadway production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was at its peak, she candidly describes the tensions inherent within her creative process, as she strives both to capture the essence of a story—and produce images and experiences unlike anything else.
New Interactive Lab Opens to Study Music and the Brain Music affects people deeply. At every stage of life, a large body of research shows, it has a profound impact on behavior and cognition. A new concert hall-cum-laboratory will be the first dedicated facility to examine music’s effect on the brain. The Large Interactive Virtual Environment (LIVE) Lab at McMaster University in Ontario, which opened this fall, will be an experimental space for neuroscientists, physiologists and psychologists to test hypotheses about performance, audience dynamics and musical improvisation.* There are already several projects on the roster for this 96-seat venue. GROUP VIBE Every culture in the world has music — one of the reasons that anthropologists consider it to be a defining characteristic of humanity. And making music with others affects how people see one another: research shows that people who experience music together are more likely to rate their collaborators as helpful or attractive.
Dancing Makes You Smarter For centuries, dance manuals and other writings have lauded the health benefits of dancing, usually as physical exercise. More recently we've seen research on further health benefits of dancing, such as stress reduction and increased serotonin level, with its sense of well-being. Most recently we've heard of another benefit: Frequent dancing apparently makes us smarter. A major study added to the growing evidence that stimulating one's mind by dancing can ward off Alzheimer's disease and other dementia, much as physical exercise can keep the body fit. Dancing also increases cognitive acuity at all ages. You may have heard about the New England Journal of Medicine report on the effects of recreational activities on mental acuity in aging. The 21-year study of senior citizens, 75 and older, was led by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, funded by the National Institute on Aging, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Neuroplasticity Aging and memory
Why Are We Comfortable with This in Education? – Etale – Education, Innovation, Experimentation Sometimes we are so close to problems that we fail to even recognize them as such. When others point out the problem to us, we might even accuse them of over reacting, being unrealistic, extreme, or “rocking the boat.” If we look into history, we can see incredibly troubling examples of this, even when entire people groups accept immoral behaviors as normal. Of course, those exist in our communities and societies around the world today as well, what some have called moral blind spots. I’m not quite ready to frame all the topics that I explore on this blog as moral issues, although I confess to thinking in such terms at times. While this is a topic that I’ve discussed before, it was highlighted for me recently when walking through a school hallway. In that moment, I experienced what felt like a combination of embarrassment and sadness. Yet, there are wonderfully encouraging exceptions. Like this: Like Loading... Related Squirrels, Tomatoes & The Education Assumption May 24, 2016 In "blog"