Worms and Professors” The Puzzle of Abundant Access to Computers and Traditional Instruction–Second Time Around
What puzzles reformers about university teaching is that amid abundant electronic devices and resources on campuses (hardware, software, and technical assistance) and well designed efforts to move professors into non-traditional ways of teaching, most faculty continue to lecture undergraduates (via PowerPoint to be sure). I explored this apparent contradiction in a post published September 28, 2009.
Nematodes are small worms that scientists study because 40 percent of their chromosomes are similar to humans. In 2008, British and U.S. scientists decoded the genome of c. elagans, creating for the first time a genetic map of a higher organism, can now compare human and worm related genes to get at causes of inherited diseases.
Similarly, we know a great deal about the DNA of K-12 classrooms and use of computers over the past three