via slideshare.net I highly recommend that those interested in the Integration of Technology into Teaching & Learning have a look at this slideshow by Sacha Chua… It’s not only very nicely made, the content is highly interesting too… I’m waiting for your comments, questions and reactions… Posted via web from the material mind 1
I’ve been thinking about a question (based on a rather natural anxiety) that some of my students have asked me: “What will the questions in the final written exam look like?” and my spontaneous response was that I wouldn’t answer this question, or at least that I would not give a precise and concrete answer […]
I’ve been thinking and reflecting a lot over the last years about the benefits and pitfalls of iTunesU and the like and the views that many university administrators have on eLearning… thinking that recording all lectures and putting them online will yield more and better student learning… I beg to STRONGLY disagree with such a […]
Social networking sites: why no abuse report button? Nic Fleming, contributor Facebook and MySpace are failing to protect children from paedophiles and bullies, a former senior police officer says. The social networking sites have refused to embed a “report button” that would allow users to report abuse. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them to a group (crowd) of people or community in the form of an open call. For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a […]
When it comes to selecting candidates for a study program or for a job, one always has to define certain skills, knowledge contents & levels or competences that one expects the candidates to bring along into the class or the workplace… However, in life-long-learning settings, we will always have to allow students or colleagues to […]
The brain/mind is not an information-processing machine, at least not in the trivial way… It’s a dynamic machine that constantly changes as it is used. I’m watching an ARTE science video on neuroplasticity that I will give my students as a resource to study the links between neuroscience and learning&teaching! It’s fascinating! A true re-education […]
Cloudworks is a social networking site for finding, sharing and discussing learning and teaching ideas and designs. via cloudworks.ac.uk I will use this website more and more to get ideas about teaching and learning and as a resource for my initial teacher training students… Posted via web from the material mind 0
This research paper could be used by our students for their EdTech2 action research projects. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0007785 Foreign Subtitles Help but Native-Language Subtitles Harm Foreign Speech Perception “Understanding foreign speech is difficult, in part because of unusual mappings between sounds and words. It is known that listeners in their native language can use lexical knowledge (about […]
I’ve been thinking about the issue of motivation and lack-of-motivation and discussing it with bachelor in educational sciences students over the last years… and I’ve always had the impression that we tend to assume that kids who don’t learn (to do) certain things at school don’t *want* to learn. Maybe they don’t want to learn these […]
