{"id":2964,"date":"2010-12-06T15:03:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T21:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2010-12-06T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T21:03:38","slug":"wait-wait-its-the-block-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2010\/12\/wait-wait-its-the-block-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait, Wait…It\u2019s the Block Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado College\u2019s NPR-member station KRCC brought the popular radio program \u201cWait, Wait, Don\u2019t Tell Me\u201d to Colorado Springs in May. The show, billed as the \u201coddly informative news quiz,\u201d has an audience of three million listeners and one million podcast subscribers.<\/p>\n

CC developed a 10-second tagline<\/a> for the show promoting Colorado College as \u201cchallenging students to mono-task, one class at a time.\u201d The \u201cmono-task\u201d phrase resonated with Marne Glaser, a listener in Chicago. She sent an e-mail which said:<\/p>\n

I want to tell you that as I was listening to \u201cWait, Wait, Don\u2019t Tell \u00a0Me\u201d on the radio this morning, my ears perked up when I heard the words \u201cmono-task,\u201d \u201cBlock Plan,\u201d and \u201cColorado College\u201d mentioned. I am many decades past college, and have no college-bound kids, but the idea of one course at a time really cheered me. I have been a school psychologist for many years, and just been so disappointed in the continuation of \u201cwhoops, there\u2019s the bell \u2014 put your work away \u2014 next!\u201d practices in the schools. Perhaps it\u2019s my Montessori training that sensitized me to the need for children to focus and mono-task. I think it\u2019s no wonder that kids are so unable to concentrate these days \u2014 we sure don\u2019t help them. Likewise, I have been disappointed in the way higher education continues to operate \u2014 every day and week fragmented so that success in school has more to do with your ability to administratively orchestrate all the required tasks, while deep learning, thinking, and understanding are short-changed. It gave me a little feeling of hope that some college honored those needs, as well as fortified the connection between the real world and the academic. I wish my college experience could have been like that!<\/em><\/p>\n

The show can be heard at: www.npr.org\/templates\/rundowns\/rundown.php?prgId=35&prgDate=05-08-2010<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colorado College\u2019s NPR-member station KRCC brought the popular radio program \u201cWait, Wait, Don\u2019t Tell Me\u201d to Colorado Springs in May. The show, billed as the \u201coddly informative news quiz,\u201d has an audience of three million listeners and one million podcast subscribers. CC developed a 10-second tagline for the show promoting Colorado College as \u201cchallenging students…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-november-2010","tag-around-cc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}