I always enjoy talking about the teaching of psychology, although I find that even after thirty years in front of the classroom, I continue to agree with William James’s comment: “Psychology is a science, teaching is an art.” A hundred years or so, William James edited a collections of his Read more…
As my career winds down, and my daughters’ university teaching careers get started, I’ve asked myself how university education might look when they reach my age. I’m pretty sure it will look much different. I doubt the current “bricks and mortar” model will survive, except for the very wealthy students. Read more…
Here are my readings for today: novel treatments for sleep disorders , cancer and diabetes! “Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified for the first time a novel mechanism that regulates circadian rhythm, the master clock that controls the body’s natural 24-hour physiological cycle. Read more…
Just returned from a great trip to Cal State San Bernardino, where I was asked to give a presentation for the Learning Research Institute. My hosts, James and Ali Kaufmann and their charming son Jacob, made sure Roger and I had a terrific time. The audience included Ali’s biopsych students, Read more…
Tomorrow, I’m off to our sister CSU campus, Cal State San Bernardino, to meet with some of the Psychology faculty and to talk with Ali Kaufman’s Biopsych class. Ali uses my Discovering Biological Psychology textbook for her class, and it’s always terrific to get direct feedback from students. Ali, her Read more…