Apple Scholar
Essays on tutoring, learning, and student thinking
Apple Scholar Journal
This is the public writing desk behind Apple Scholar: essays on live tutoring, project-based learning, flipped classrooms, and the kinds of study artifacts that make understanding last.
Featured essay
The best tutoring does not perform expertise at a student. It creates the conditions for the student to notice, question, connect, and arrive at understanding for themselves.
Read the essayProject-based learning, flipped classrooms, and strong tutoring all share one goal: helping students think for themselves.
One of the reasons I am so passionate about project-based learning and flipped-classroom pedagogy is that it decenters the teacher.
We are often told that the instructor, professor, or person standing at the front of the room has the answers, and that our role is simply to listen, absorb, and accept what is being said.