It thrilled me that the year Physicist Carl Weiman won the Nobel (at CU at the time), he also won a national teaching award.
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2008/06/02/out-with-the-lecture/2/
The above article details Weiman's recent presentation about how teaching students to apply the learning resulted in learning that stuck at a much higher rate than students who sat in traditional lecture. While this almost seems like old news, these remarks can't be taken for granted. The article references studies and surveys of students to this end.
Says Weiman: "Professors need to tell their students why the subject is worth learning, how it connects to the real world, and how it is connected to other concepts the students understand."
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Brian Greene, a professor of physics at Columbia, is the author of “The Elegant Universe” and “The Fabric of the Cosmos.”
He writes in this article, "In reality, science is a language of hope and inspiration, providing discoveries that fire the imagination and instill a sense of connection to our lives and our world."
Exactly!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01greene.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
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