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He is still giving talks, and the titles now all include the word “wonder.” Whatever tool professors can find to conjure that—curiosity and a sense of amazing possibilities—is what they should use, he says. Like any good lecture, his point may be more inspirational than instructive.

A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn’t Working - The Chronicle of Higher Education.

I have so many objections to so much of this article, that instead of writing them (at least for now), I’ll quote Robert Talbert’s comment:

We can’t call any kind of teaching, technologically-driven or not, “excellent” without some discussion of student learning — and that is conspicuously absent here.

Yep. There’s too much talk about teaching and not enough about learning.

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