I enjoyed many walks with Lisa at the Stanford Dish. And like the author of recent Stanford Alumni Magazine article on the Stanford Dish, Interstate 280 between San Francisco and San Jose is my favorite interstate highway in the US. What would I-15 …
Learning Space Design and Borges The Library of Babel
A few weeks ago I was meeting with friends and the topic of learning space design, specifically designing learning spaces at libraries, came up. I joked that we should design learning spaces at the BYU library based on Borges The Library of Babel. …
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Setting Students’ Minds on Fire
Mark C. Carnes gets it right about active learning in his article "Setting Students' Minds on Fire." If learning is exciting to learners, graduation rates will take care of themselves. What I found most valuable about this article were the …
Moving Beyond the Lecture
I blog here in response to a great question from Robert Gray, Jr., Ph.D., who is the Director of the Program for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of South Alabama. Rob asked, in response to my blog "The Lecture: A …
Ancient Synagogue Discovered: Kudos to BYU’s Matt Grey and the Rest of the Team.
Matt Grey, a friend of mine in the Ancient Scripture department at BYU, is part of an archaeological team led by Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina. They just announced some very exciting finds related to an ancient synagogue at the …
Changing Education Paradigms
Sir Ken Robinson, in this TED Talk on Changing Education Paradigms, provides a compelling explanation of how our education system, based on an industrial era model, seriously curtails the development and expression of traits and skills that are key …
