CELT Director Kathi Kern to Speak on Innovative Teaching
Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning & Teaching (CELT) and associate professor of history, Kathi Kern will speak as part of the "see tomorrow Speaker Series."
Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning & Teaching (CELT) and associate professor of history, Kathi Kern will speak as part of the "see tomorrow Speaker Series."
The University of Kentucky Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) will present a talk titled "The End of Wonder in the Age of Whatever" Tuesday, March 19, in the W.T. Young Library auditorium.
New media and technology present us with an overwhelming bounty of tools for connection, creativity, collaboration, and knowledge creation - a true "Age of Whatever" where anything seems possible. But any enthusiasm about these remarkable possibilities is immediately tempered by that other "Age of Whatever" - an age in which people feel increasingly disconnected, disempowered, tuned out, and alienated. Such problems are especially prevalent in education, where the Internet often enters our classrooms as a distraction device rather than a tool for learning.
What is needed more than ever is to inspire our students to wonder, to nurture their appetite for curiosity, exploration, and contemplation. It is our responsibility to help them attain an insatiable appetite and pursue big, authentic, and relevant questions so that they can harness and leverage the bounty of possibility, rediscover the "end" or purpose of wonder, and stave off the historical end of wonder.