For more information on the workshop, visit the link above. We have found these chats to be of great value in thinking through key issues that people will be bringing to PKAL and perhaps to Utah. The instructor has to parse the knowledge in new ways. Our students are now immersed in environments that couple and integrate lectures, problem solving sessions and experimental activities into one physical space and a new course structure. BUT, much more rewarding since you now are able to gauge and tailor the teaching.
Some courses are very much like an artist's studio - complete with many charrettes.
People need to share and learn from each other and technology makes that sharing easier. We need to find compelling justification for them to want to play with the technology. There is a fairly weak intro computer class that is required at some point. I'll demo them at the Summer Institute. Yesterday in the Psychology Workshop chat, people talked about intro psycho courses with 700 people in them.