Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts

The Purpose of Education

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My friends and I were talking about the purpose of education over dinner on Saturday night. This video criticizes one side of the issue; nam...

What's Happened to Universities?

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The latest issue of Academic Matters has a provocative article by Ken Coates on The Quiet Campus: The Anatomy of Dissent at Canadian Univer...

Online Training of Competent, Employable, Bioinformatics Professionals

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I think that undergraduate education at most universities is done very badly. There are far too many courses that consist of professors givi...

Redshirting: Holding kids back from kindergarten

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  Until a few minutes ago I had never heard of "redshirting" although I was familiar with the concept. Some parents want to hold t...

Medieval Teaching Methods

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  John Hawks posts a reference to an article in MacLeans magazine about undergraduate teaching. John supports a style of teaching that empha...

How to Do Good Science

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  Richard Feynman (1918–1988) was a very smart American physicist who's words are often quoted ... for good reason. Here's one quota...

The Death of Universities

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  Bill Gates thinks that universities are about to become obsolete [ Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web ]. ...

An Educational Lunch

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  Last week, before leaving for Halifax, I had lunch with David Schuller (a Monday's Molecule winner) and Deb Breiter. They were in town...

Education and Science vs. Religion

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  As far as I'm concerned, the proper teaching of science involves explaining that it is a legitimate and powerful way of knowing based ...

Would You Get a Baccalauréat if You Were a Student in France?

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  French high school students must obtain the baccalauréat if they are to have any chance of getting into university. Almost all teenagers h...