Cinematic thinking is the practice of approaching ideas the way a filmmaker approaches a scene, through framing, pacing, cuts, and juxtaposition instead of pure logic. It borrows the grammar of film to make sense of experience, learning, and creative work. This post traces where the idea comes from, what it means in practice, and why … Continue reading Cinematic Thinking: Watching Your Own Mind Like a Film
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Struggling to Learn Is Still Learning
Inspired by Deslauriers et al. (2019), this blog post is about research that found something counterintuitive: students taught with active, hands-on methods scored higher on tests than students taught with passive lectures, yet felt like they'd learned less. Same material, same instructors — the only difference was whether students had to think for themselves. Below … Continue reading Struggling to Learn Is Still Learning