No Student Should Have to Sit Through a Zoom Lecture

On a Thursday afternoon in February, I watched my students at the whiteboard. Gaby was drawing a series of cartoons and a list of the kinds of animals that had been sent into space by different countries across the decades. She didn't look at her notes: She drew from memory. Next to her, Olan was drawing images and words about the major groupings of physiological questions researchers had been trying to answer, including the effects of microgravity on heart and lungs, and the intensity of the stresses of launch. With my co-instructor professor Evgenya Shkolnik, I teach a class called "Inquiry," where the subject matter changes every semester, but what's really being taught is ways of independent learning and problem-solving.