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03 Mar 07

The globalization of educational fads and fallacies

  • This post also contains links to many other posts and articles that surround the pedagogical and political implications of Whole Language instruction.
     - ehoefler on 2007-03-03
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    misuse of neuroscientific arguments
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    is also becoming an epidemic, perhaps not as fatal as ineffective methods of reading instruction, but still debilitating to the body politic.
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  • Whole Language is a politically correct but scientifically mistaken theory of reading instruction

The Teaching of Reading

  • teachers generally receive little instruction in how to teach reading in spite of the fact that this is the single most important thing that primary school teachers and the one in which instruction is most needed. This is in part because of the dominance of whole language, a system in which there is nothing much for the teacher to know.
15 Feb 07

In Defense of Lecturing

  • Finally, then, lecturing should be defended because a narrow view of learning as mainly self-generated misses the fact that the vitality of the educational exchange in college often derives from the engagement of the student with a professor who is himself involved in a lifetime of discovery.
  • Rarely do students have the chance to observe intellectual mastery and excitement in their daily world. When they find it on a campus, it validates the life—the liveliness—of the mind.
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Educational Uses of Role-Playing Games

  • Collection of articles and examples about using rpgs in education - ehoefler on 2007-01-05
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