Conversations@FAS: Active Learning, February 11, 2011

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Channel: Harvard University · 2011 · Education

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A Chinese proverb asserts a familiar truism about teaching and learning - "tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand." Neuroscience research is beginning to bear this out, showing that students' active engagement in the classroom leads to longer retention of information. Join the first Conversations@FAS to explore the topic of active learning, the impact of new technologies on teaching, and the changing role of the professor in the classroom today.

Christopher Winship
Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology 

Diane Paulus
Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater
Professor of the Practice of Theatre 

David Malan
Lecturer on Computer Science

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