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Higher Ed: Asking For Help In Education
Asking for help can be difficult or embarrassing sometimes, and for a variety reasons we don’t always do it when we should. But the truth is, everyone needs help sometimes, including students – who...
View ArticleHigher Ed: The Importance of Failure to Learning
In this episode of KUT’s podcast, “Higher Ed,” KUT’s Jennifer Stayton talks with Dr. Ed Burger, President of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, about how important failure is to learning and...
View ArticleHigher Ed: The Art of Creating Questions
The old saying goes something like this: “If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it it, does it make a sound?” A variation on that might go: “If someone asks a question, and no one...
View ArticleHigher Ed: The Ins and Outs of Liberal Arts
The phrase “liberal arts” often goes hand in hand with discussions about higher education. But really, what are the liberal arts? Are they liberal? Are they arts? How about none of the above? In this...
View ArticleHigher Ed: 175 Years of History in Less Than 10 Minutes
Southwestern University in Georgetown is celebrating its 175th anniversary in 2015. In this episode of KUT’s podcast “Higher Ed,” KUT’s Jennifer Stayton and Southwestern’s President Dr. Ed Burger...
View ArticleHigher Ed: Love of Learning
Think back to your early days of school – nursery school and kindergarten, even into first grade. Learning was full of fun and creative discovery. But as time goes by, that fun disappears from the...
View ArticleHigher Ed: Technology, Art, Ethics, and More Converge in 3-D Printing
3-D printing seems like a great deal. Need something? Print it up. Anything from food to clothing to houses can be printed and used. But just because we can print it, should we? And what about people...
View ArticleHigher Ed: Who’s An “Expert” In Education?
“Takes one to know one.” Remember that phrase? It’s usually tossed around as an insult during an argument. But, could there be a grain of truth in that? What does it mean to be an expert in something?...
View ArticleHigher Ed: Happiness 101?
History, Biology, English, Calculus. Those are some of the more traditional subjects taught in classrooms. But what if happiness were taught in school? In this episode of KUT’s podcast Higher Ed,...
View ArticleHigher Ed: Learning to “Unlearn”
Learning…. it’s what we all go to school for, right? Well, have you ever thought about what we’re actually doing when we learn? Sometimes, it’s just memorizing names, dates, or facts that we can...
View ArticleHigher Ed: How to Understand Deeply and Make Meaning
Remember “Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey,” that spoof of affirmations and pithy sayings? They’re funny for sure, but the idea of understanding something deeply is a serious part of education during...
View ArticleHigher Ed: The Meaning and Nuance of Numbers
From pre-K and all the way through graduate studies in math, we learn about numbers. But think about it – what is a number, really? What does the concept of “four” or a “million” of something actually...
View ArticleHigher Ed: How Technology Impacts Learning
With smartphones in the hands of so many people these days, we should be a lot smarter, right? How does technology impact the way we learn? In this episode of KUT’s podcast Higher Ed, Jennifer Stayton...
View ArticleHigher Ed: Creating New Knowledge
What does it take to do heavy duty research and generate new ideas in an academic field? A pile of degrees and years and years spent closed off in a room with noses to the grindstone? Not necessarily!...
View ArticleHigher Ed: Where Do Ideas Come From?
No doubt you’ve seen that iconic representation of the moment when a new idea is born. You know – the whole “lightbulb pops up over somebody’s head” graphic. It’s eye-catching for sure, but it turns...
View ArticleHigher Ed: Aging and Learning
Remember that early 1990’s television show Doogie Howser, M.D. about a brilliant teenage doctor? Doogie had graduated from college by the age of ten and had become a doctor at 14. Ok, that may be a...
View ArticleHigher Ed: Deep Rest = Better Learning
Caffeine-fueled all-nighters to finish up that paper or cram for a final exam. For some students, that’s a regular part of their studying routine in higher education. They come to equate intense...
View ArticleHigher Ed: Extreme Learning Makeover
A new haircut. Maybe some new clothes. What about gutting a house and rebuilding the whole thing? Those sound like pretty extreme makeovers. What about an extreme learning makeover? In this episode of...
View ArticleHigher Ed: Summer Break for the Brain
Once school is over for the summer, many students are tempted to put it as far out of their minds as possible and take a break from the rigors of the academic year. And they certainly aren’t thinking...
View ArticleHigher Ed: Conquering Math “Phobia”
“I was told there would be no math!” It’s a line people sometimes say in mock frustration when faced with a situation involving arithmetic. For some people, the thought of doing addition or...
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