Creativity scholars Kaufman and Glăveanu (2019) argue that “like love or happiness, creativity is everywhere and nowhere in academia” (p. 27). They make this claim within the context of scholarship, stating that while everyone has an opinion, creativity can be difficult to define and categorize.
What if the most powerful teaching tool wasn’t a new AI technology but humans helping other humans become teachers themselves? After two decades working with neurodiverse students who think differently, are brilliant, and struggle academically, I’ve discovered that the combination of metacognitive problem-solving instruction and
Picture this: You spend hours crafting a midterm exam that could provide valuable learning opportunities. Students get their exams back early in the course, leaving them plenty of time to improve before the final. Yet when you look at final exam results, you see that
There is an elusive win-win in teaching in which both teachers and students truly enjoy a class together. The teachers find pleasure and satisfaction in educating students, and the students are fully engaged in learning concepts they find interesting and meaningful. Unfortunately, some teachers and
We often hear faculty complain that students are not reading the course material. Studies consistently report low rates of reading compliance across disciplines, with students citing time pressures, unclear purpose, perceived irrelevance, and weak accountability structures as reasons for skipping assigned materials (Hoeft, 2012; Brost
Every teacher knows the challenge: Students complete homework at 9:00 p.m., get stuck, and have to wait until the next day’s class for help. By then, you’re facing a mountain of assignments that all show the same misconception.
“I spent hours on the Gulliver’s Travels reading—yes, hours—and I still didn’t get through the Lilliput section!” my student, Sarah, bemoaned after class one morning. I asked her to walk me through her approach.
Faculty training in higher education often emphasizes verbal participation as the primary indicator of student engagement. In graduate preparation, instructors learn to value quick interaction, frequent discussion, and other visible forms of participation. An “active” classroom commonly means one in which students speak often. Over
Instructors and students waste many hours struggling to get what they want out of an AI chatbot due to a lack of understanding of prompt engineering. With AI playing an increasingly important role in work, prompt engineering is one of the most important skills our
Even if you can’t tell a pigskin from pigs in a blanket, have no idea where the Seahawks or Patriots are from, or couldn’t care less who is playing in one of the most-watched sports events in the world—the Super Bowl—it’s hard to avoid the
