How do you decode the words and phrases in an argument?
The phrase ‘unscrams’ a word is the most common way that a student or teacher will interpret the meaning of a word.This means that it is a word that was used before and has been forgotten or has a completely different meaning from what was intended.Unscrambling a word means finding out what the original meaning […]
Harvard’s Scramble for Lecture Icon, Professor McDermott, loses bid for title
Harvard has gone for the win in the quest to claim the title of “The Most Visited Lecturer in the World”.But the school’s search for its next lecturer could soon be put to the test.The college, which has just over a year to go until the end of the academic year, has decided to try […]
Historian: Historians must rewrite our textbooks
An Argentinean history professor has called for students to rewrite textbooks that omit the genocide of Indigenous peoples, a legacy of colonialism.He said the textbooks should be rewritten so that “the past can be made to look like the present” and the history can be rediscovered as an “intellectual, cultural and moral history”.I have spoken […]
When does a textbook lecture become a “classroom lecture”?
As students, teachers, and parents struggle to prepare for the upcoming semester, a new resource for learning the fundamentals of cryptography is now available for the first time.Encrypted textbook lectures have been around for decades, but they were largely seen as a form of distraction for students who simply needed to understand what was being […]
