Kathy: I was listening to a podcast yesterday, Kathy, and someone was talking about really sort of our deepest rooted beliefs that we have about about ourselves and about the world. And he said too many times we act like it's a journey that has a destination and instead he preferred an analogy of a farm. Christina: My recommendation for us today is called Learning from Plants by Rhonda Montgomery. She says if my plant is dying, I don't blame the plant. I think it needs what does it need? Does it need better soil? Do it need better light? Am I watering it enough? How can I contribute to the condition so this plant will thrive? So she uses that
Cathy Davidson + Christina Katopodis talk about their new book, The New College Classroom, on episode 433 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Active learning is about structuring class so that students have more autonomy and control of their learning.
-Christina Katopodis
It takes time to unlearn traditional structures that have been ingrained in us.
-Christina Katopodis