My most recent blog post over on the Wonders and Marvels blog considers what Plutarch has to teach us about teaching and learning in a digital age.
I invite you to visit the post: On Vessels Filled and Fires Kindled.
My most recent blog post over on the Wonders and Marvels blog considers what Plutarch has to teach us about teaching and learning in a digital age.
I invite you to visit the post: On Vessels Filled and Fires Kindled.
it would be wonderful to have a required class in practicing listening for all incoming freshman before they start into attending lectures. I think that if undergrad ed. focused more on the how to (methodologies) of various fields than on the end products(data/conclusions) of those endeavors this would be another good step in the direction of developing new life habits of inquiry and creation.
Yes, of the four literacies: reading, writing, speaking and listening, it seems that active, attentive listening is often overlooked. We have a new full year course we are developing at Penn State called Rhetoric and Civic Life. It will bring together the writing and speaking sides of our general education curriculum. I should press a bit on the issue of listening though.