Even at Cornell, it’s not every day a Nobel Prize winner comes to campus to talk about teaching. But, last month, arrive one did, in the form of Carl Wieman. …Continue Reading A Visit with Carl Wieman, Part 1: On Active Learning
Category: Innovation
A Journey ‘To the Moon’ and Back
You land on the moon.
The stars glitter above you; familiar constellations etch themselves across the night sky. But here, now, in this headset, the night sky is outer space, in all its strange magnificence. The night sky, outer space, is all around you.
And… there are dinosaurs in it….Continue Reading A Journey ‘To the Moon’ and Back
On Generative AI and Teaching
As the last months have made clear, Generative AI tools – such as ChatGPT – are here to stay, are certain to get more and more powerful, and will change the way we do many things….Continue Reading On Generative AI and Teaching