Book review: “Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College” by Mark C. Carnes

You show up to class. But instead of takings notes while your professor leads a discussion and flips through a Powerpoint, you are re-enacting the trial of Galileo. Some students argue for the new cosmology, but those denouncing it have the upper hand. I can't wait to try out my first Reacting classroom!

The idea of a university… is to teach!

The best professor I ever had was Dr Butterfield, or Tony as he asked us to call him. He taught our senior lab courses in the chemical engineering department at the University of Utah.  He put together the most beautiful and humorous presentations before lab that made you appreciate science and the scientific method for... Continue Reading →

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