Instead of asking students to silence their cell phones and close the tabs on their Internet browsers, Camal is incorporating social media into his course, Music History 5: The History of Rock and Roll, this quarter. Read more...

Photo: Professor Jerome Camal is using Twitter and Spotify in his Music History 5: History of Rock and Roll course this quarter to engage with his students. This is his second time teaching the course, but first time using social media as a teaching tool.

For an hour each day, Jeremy Gleick sets aside his biochemistry and neuroscience textbooks and picks up playing cards, juggling balls and sometimes even knives. “(Learning something new each day) is an opportunity to get to do something I ordinarily would not be able to do,” Gleick said. Read more...

Photo: Jeremy Gleick, a third-year neuroscience student, is demonstrating some card tricks above – one of the many things he has learned during what he calls his “learning hour.” Gleick sets aside an hour every day to learn something and has been doing so for about 3 1/2 years.