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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

From This Week with EdSurge · Hosted by Ira Apfel

September 27, 2022·38:21

Episode summary

In this episode of This Week with EdSurge: Longtime professor Cathy Davidson is on a mission these days to promote the practice of active learning. And she says the stakes are higher than people might realize. It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn.

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Longtime professor Cathy Davidson is on a mission these days to promote the practice of active learning. And she says the stakes are higher than people might realize. It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn. She thinks there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching.