Our students are changing…and so should our teaching

I think we are all finding our long-held assumptions about how to create an assessment with safeguards against cheating, “make” students do the weekly readings, and engage students either online or in-person are increasingly proving to disappoint.  Our students are changing and evolving. Jenny Darroch’s Inside Higher Ed “Students Are Less Engaged; Stop Blaming COVID”, asks us to reframe college students as “knowledge workers.”  Peter Drucker first coined the term “knowledge work” in 1959.  He identified six factors that motivate “knowledge workers” to be productive, including a sense of autonomy, opportunities for continuous learning, and an emphasis on quality of work vs quantity.  We need to adapt our teaching and learning strategies, but how do we know what is going to work?   Continue reading →