CTL TA Awards Season
While others are hanging stockings, trimming trees, decking halls, and buying extravagant gifts for the ones they love, the folks over at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Georgia Tech have visions...
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Why so serious? Three reasons to use humor in your classroom
“A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.” — Herman Melville observed. Beyond bar-rooms in Moby Dick, this applies to much of higher education today, as well....
Silence of the la(m)bs
Do you remember the time warp that sometimes followed a question from an instructor, back in your college days? When all sound was sucked out of the classroom, along with most of the air,...
Testing is a Key to Better Learning
On November 27, the School of Psychology hosted Henry Roediger, professor of psychology at Washington University and author of the 2014 book Making it Stick: The science of successful learning. Roediger’s talk reviewed decades...