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SUMMARY:What Happens in the Classroom is the Main Event
DESCRIPTION:Photo: MIT Image Library\n\n\n\nDr. Carlo Rotella\, Professor of English\, American Studies\, and Journalism at Boston College \n\n\n\nDescription\n\n\n\nWhat happens in the classroom is getting more\, not less\, cutting-edge all the time. Face-to-face teaching and learning become rarer and more valuable with each advance in educational technology. At the same time\, the higher-ed classroom is a black box in our culture. There’s no lack of strong opinions about what happens or doesn’t happen there\, but not enough practical discussion of the details. This talk is about those details\, especially the mechanics of classroom citizenship and the importance of building a community of inquiry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\nDr. Carlo Rotella\, Professor of English\, American Studies\, and Journalism at Boston College \n\n\n\nCarlo Rotella is a professor of English\, American Studies\, and Journalism at Boston College. He writes regularly for the New York Times Magazine — most recently an essay on teaching English in the age of AI — and his work has also appeared in the New Yorker and Best American Essays. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship\, U.S. State Department grants to lecture in China and Bosnia\, and the Whiting Writers Award\, he has written books about the postindustrial city\, boxing\, blues\, and urban literature and film\, among other subjects. His latest book\, What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics\, is about what happens in the classroom.
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