Eric Mazur, how ca we foster/teach innovation? Teach real problem solving & to encourage risk taking. We learn by practicing, very little by listening to lectures.
Education is not just the transmission of information. Not being able to transfer learning to new contexts is the hallmark of lack of learning. Traditional assessments discourage risk taking, focuses on outcome not process, is individual, does not mirror future work env’t, so discourages real learning.
Assimilation happens outside of class now; should flip this because transmission is the easy part (case study as first example of flipped classroom.) Pinker’s Curse of Knowledge, students are better qualified to teach other new learners because they remember the problems. Question > think > poll > discuss (30+% right) > repoll > explain; start again.
Lectures give a false sense of security for both faculty & students because they do not reveal misconceptions. Recent MIT study shows that brain activity is less during lecture than anything else. Mazur.harvard.edu