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The Active Seating Zone (An Educational Experiment)

How can we make a large class more lively? I tackled this question last term by allowing students to self-partition into different sets, with dramatic, and remarkably encouraging, results. Last term, Spring 2024, I taught a “physics of renewable energy for non-science majors course” [1]. I often teach “general education” classes aimed at non-science-majors, including … Continue reading The Active Seating Zone (An Educational Experiment)

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On classes

This coming Monday I’ll give a presentation to parents of incoming freshmen, part of the university’s new student orientation program. I’ve done this before, even though I’m a bit unclear on what the goal of the event is. Nonetheless, I again agreed, largely because I think there’s generally a lack of dialogue between the public … Continue reading On classes