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Interpersonal learning , personalized learning, second life learning , 3d learning, collaborative learning and virtual learning , these are just some of the few buzz words you would be hearing so often in today’s educational literature.
25 practical ideas for using Mobile Phones in the Classroom
It is 40 years since the first publication of Donald Bligh's classic work What's the Use of Lectures?1 It was a
devastating critique, based on thorough empirical research, of the use of the lecture as the main method of teaching
in higher education
These are ground breaking shifts in the way we learn. Unfortunately, they’re not matched by the way we teach. The growing gap between teaching practice and learning practice is acute and growing. Institutional teaching, especially in Universities is hanging on to the pedagogic fossil that is the lecture. The word pedagogy has become a hollow appeal for traditional lectures, classroom teaching and summative assessment. The true driver for positive, pedagogic change is the internet.
Every committed educator wants better learning and more thoughtful students. Visible Thinking is a way of helping to achieve that without a separate ‘thinking skills' course or fixed lessons.
Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning.
pedagogy trumps tech every time
“a look at how the web is reshaping schooling”
There’s an article in this month’s Wired Magazine about Khan Academy. The headline speaks volumes — “How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education” — as do the responses I’ve seen to the article. As usual, there’s plenty of praise for Sal Khan and his one-man-educational-video-making machine. But there’s also push-back from some quarters, particularly from educators who are highly skeptical of what Khan Academy delivers and what it stands for.
Three generations of distance education pedagogy
Cognitive scientists find that when teaching young children, there is a trade-off between direct instruction and independent exploration.
The simple yet far-reaching ambition of this collection is to discover how to use digital media for learning on campus and off. It offers a rich selection of methodologies, social practices, and hands-on assignments by leading educators who acknowledge the opportunities created by the confluence of mobile technologies, the World Wide Web, film, video games, TV, comics, and software while also acknowledging recurring challenges
Prezi dealing with Blooms Taxonomy and thoughts about a digital taxonomy.
Introduction to Crafting Questions for On-line Discussions
Instructional strategies determine the approach a teacher may take to achieve learning objectives.
Five categories of instructional strategies and explanation of these five categories can be found within this site.
These grids originated as the result of a district initiative in the Deniliquin CAP District coordinated by Allan Barton, Principal of Oaklands Central School. The schools involved in the initiative were Oaklands Central School, Barham Public School, Moulamein Public School, Berrigan Public School, Wakool Public School and Mallan Public School.
Welcome to the Authentic Assessment Toolbox, a how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning.
Educational consultant and former Edutopia.org blogger Chris O'Neal demonstrates educational uses for the video-sharing Web site
"Constructivism and the Five E's"
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