The Post-Lecture Classroom

I remain totally convinced that the power and the potential of the Blair academic experience lies in our ability to push students to use their classroom time as an exploration of content, skills, and big ideas -- at their own pace and with our guidance.  That this flies in the face of the teaching that some of our graduates will experience at university only re-enforces my concerns about the quality of teaching at that level.  How we approach this student-centered classroom experience (via the "flipped-classroom", "harkness"-style discussions, "socratic seminars", project-based learning) will vary by discipline and teacher, and will no doubt evolve over time.  The article below looks at some of these efforts as well as attempts to quantify the results to a small degree:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/the-post-lecture-classroom-how-will-students-fare/279663/