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...Boston Marathon," says the committee report, "so, too, one doesn't become a good problem solver by listening to lectures or reading about statistics." Acknowledging how important extracurricular activities have become on campus, the report calls for a stronger link between the endeavors students pursue inside and outside the classroom. Those studying poverty, for example, absorb more if they also volunteer at a homeless shelter, suggests Bok, whose 2005 book, Our Underachieving Colleges, cites a finding that students remember just 20% of the content of class lectures a week later...
...Life SwappingResidential life isn’t the only novel thing about American college life for the exchange students. Like many freshmen during orientation week, Mason was blown away by the extent of extracurricular activities at Harvard. While students at Sciences Po spend more time in the classroom, Harvard kids are running clubs and founding organizations. “They don’t expect you to get involved in organizations as much,” Mason says of Sciences Po. But on U.S. soil, this Frenchman has decided to get involved in some extracurriculars...
Just last week, Princeton University launched a “Strategic Planning Initiative” to examine a host of issues related to technology use in the classroom...
...growing presence of laptops changes the Harvard classroom, students and professors are working out new rules to determine the computers’ proper place...
Others have banned computers from their classrooms completely, arguing that they distract students and damage the classroom dynamic...