As the coronavirus continues to close schools across the country, educators are scrambling to move classes online and help their students stay on track.
For the last decade, Betty Chandy, Catalyst @ Penn GSE’s director for online learning, has prepared educators and schools for virtual and blended learning.
Chandy offers advice for middle and high school teachers who are teaching online for the first time. While these tips can work with any digital learning platform—even an improvised one—they are designed for schools where every student has access to a computer and an internet connection. Her suggestions include scaling down lectures, providing more support and being open and honest with students about how you are measuring progress and participation.
Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system
Research led by Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell investigates the use of a lettuce-based, plant-encapsulated delivery platform as a new oral delivery of two GLP-1 drugs previously approved by the FDA in injectable form.
No brain, no gain: Neuronal activity enhances benefits of exercise
Research led by Penn neuroscientist J. Nicholas Betley and collaborators finds that hypothalamic neurons are essential for translating physical exertion into endurance, potentially opening the door to exercise-mimicking therapies.
In honor of Valentine's Day, and as a way of fostering community in her Shakespeare in Love course, Becky Friedman took her students to the University Club for lunch one class period. They talked about the movie "Shakespeare in Love," as part of a broader conversation on how Shakespeare's works are adapted.
In Becky Friedman’s English course Shakespeare in Love, undergraduate students analyze language, genre, and adaptation in the Bard’s plays through the lens of love.
Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion
Dorit Aviv, director of Weitzman’s Thermal Architecture Lab, studies how humans, technology, and design intersect, paving the way for the development of novel approaches to cooling people efficiently.
