The Lecture System in Teaching Science "Meanwhile, back at the classroom, the lecture is drawing to a close. Just as the bell rings, the lecturer, if he's a really smooth operator, comes to the end of a sentence, a paragraph, a nice neat unit. He lays down his last piece of chalk — he knows exactly how many pieces the lecture will take — picks up his precious lecture notes, and goes out. The students, tired but happy, rise up and follow after him. Their heads are empty, but their notebooks are full. Their necks are a little tired; it's been like a sort of vertical tennis match: board, notebook, board, notebook. But other than that, everything is all right. Any student will tell you, "I never had any trouble with the course until the first examination."" [
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posted by dhruva
on Feb 6, 2009 -
63 comments
Academic Earth collects lectures on a wide variety of
subjects from
UC Berkely,
Harvard,
MIT,
Princeton,
Stanford and
Yale that the universities have
released under Creative Commons. The site is
still in beta so it doesn't quite have the thousands of lectures its frontpage promises. It has many full courses, for example Benjamin Polak teaching
game theory, Amy Hungerford on
the American novel since 1945, Charles Bailyn's
introduction to astrophysics, John Merriman on the history of
France since 1871, Shelly Kagan on
death and Oussama Khatib's
introduction to robotics.
posted by Kattullus
on Feb 4, 2009 -
10 comments
What happens when we leave behind cosmetics and societal norms to modify our bodies and minds to enhance who we are and what we can do?
In this talk, journalist
Quinn Norton explores how technology and flesh are coming together.
posted by Hypocrites
on Aug 23, 2008 -
10 comments
Randy Pausch is a
pioneer in virtual reality, a
computer science professor, a
Disney Imagineer, an
innovative teacher, and the co-founder of
the best video game school in the world. One year ago he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and after a long and difficult fight
he's been given just a few more months to live. This week he gave
his powerful, funny, and life-affirming last lecture to a packed auditorium at Carnegie Mellon University, entitled "How to Live Your Childhood Dreams".
The WSJ's summary, and
a direct link to the complete video of the lecture (2 hours, and unfortunately streaming WMV). Warning: hilarious jokes about dying.
posted by xthlc
on Sep 20, 2007 -
30 comments
Bruce Sterling's talk at SXSW is described on the landing page as a 'rant'. It isn't. What it
is is a survey from 10,000 feet at what's happening in culture and technology and on the web, and I reckon it's worth spending the hour of your life it'll take to listen to it. I hope you agree.
[mp3, 59 minutes]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken
on Mar 19, 2007 -
52 comments
Physics for Future Presidents is a class taught at UC Berkeley by Physics professor Richard Muller. It's a class specifically for non-physics majors and teaches the real world results of the sometimes impenetrable math involved in university physics.
After every lecture, you should come away with the feeling that what was just covered is important for every world leader to know. I just sat through the entire hour and 13 minute
nukes lecture and was riveted.
posted by quite unimportant
on Nov 7, 2006 -
26 comments
Science Live site I found this because of the live coverage of the Festival of Science 2006 from Norwich, but found lots of other great links! Great for kids, but good for anyone curious about science.
"What if you could watch any popular science lecture you wanted to? What if you could participate in any popular science event? What if you could find out what scientists themselves have to say about the issues that are important in society today? ScienceLive is an initiative that seeks to bring some of the best popular science events (discussions, lectures, interviews) directly to your home, so that you can watch these events whenever and from whereever you can.
posted by k8t
on Sep 6, 2006 -
3 comments
Is the looming war with Iraq the first Water War? Should the signs really be saying No Blood for Water?
From -Water Wars: a lecture by (Adel Darwish)
"Oil has always been thought of as the traditional cause of conflict in the Middle East past and present. Since the first Gulf oil well gushed in Bahrain in 1932, countries have squabbled over borders in the hope that ownership of a patch of desert or a sand bank might give them access to new riches. No longer. Now, most borders have been set, oil fields mapped and reserves accurately estimated - unlike the water resources, which are still often unknown. WATER is taking over from oil as the likeliest cause of conflict in the Middle East."
posted by thedailygrowl
on Mar 17, 2003 -
25 comments
The lecture Thomas Friedman gave at
SAIS a few days ago. A longer form, very interesting and informative explanation of what he's learned post-Sept. 11th about the Middle East. Windows Media video and Real video and audio all available.
posted by turbodog
on Mar 10, 2003 -
10 comments
The state of Florida has charged a teenage student with a felony violation of a
wiretapping law for taping her chemistry class lecture.
posted by jfuller
on Feb 28, 2001 -
32 comments
