Henning Mankell’s opinion piece in The New York Times reflects on something Africa has to teach the rest of the world: the art of listening. Listening well means shedding preconceptions about what you expect the answer to be. This is the opposite of the kind of conversation that a multiple-choice test encourages. The Times recently … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: December 2011
CS50 Fair
The Bok Center’s Multimedia team visited the CS50 Fair in the Northeast Labs on Friday, December 9th. Here is a quick video of some of the students and TFs that we interviewed. Continue reading »
Register Now: 2012 Winter Teaching Conference
Registration for the 2012 Winter Teaching Conference is now open. Please visit our website for more information and to register. Continue reading »
Around the Web: The Power of Failing
As the semester draws to an end and the final reckoning begins, failure becomes a recurring theme. At the Chronicle of Higher Education, Marybeth Gasman describes the phenomenon of the recent graduate who expects unrealistic success. When students don’t factor in how much time hard work it can take to make even modest career advances, … Continue reading »
Around the Web: The Big Picture
The theme for this year’s StoryCorps’s “National Day of Listening” was thanking teachers—the heartwarming stories are here. NPR devoted the Thanksgiving episode of “Talk of the Nation” to the topic—listeners called in to thank their former teachers, and teachers called in to reflect on what it meant to be thanked. It was striking to hear not … Continue reading »
