via youtube.com I think that this teacher’s PERFORMANCE was great! And many of you may think that this was a great lesson… It was funny, well orchestrated, etc. However, I do think that it’s ultimately also an example of “bad teaching”… because it’s ENTERTAINMENT instead of LEARNING. Students will remember this “lesson”, but they will […]
via lsf.education.fr The “LSF Lexique” is an online video database with signs for specialty concepts (for instance terms in medical sciences) in the French Signs Language. The idea is to build up (and make available) a reference database for FSL signs to represent concepts for which there are no “official” signs, because these concepts come […]
The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT) is an e-journal that provides free and open access to all of its content. via ijedict.dec.uwi.edu I’ve recently discovered this international journal and I will bookmark it today for future reference. Posted via web from the material mind 0
ICT is just a tool (just like whiteboards) that can be utilized for education. via brudirect.com I do agree with Ragexiii, that ICT are merely tools and that they can be used for education just like other older technologies (like whiteboards and books) have been used for teaching and learning purposes. However, I do think […]
I’ve been commenting on a blog post by Dean Shareski who is a Digital Learning Consultant with the Prairie South School Division in Moose Jaw, SK, Canada. I’d love to know what you think about my ideas and speculations… So please leave me a comment below… Hi Dean, I’m a lecturer in Educational Sciences at […]
So what does this mean for teaching? First, everything we do as educators needs a larger goal (the big picture as it were). Too often we get lost in the minutia of of the project and forget the broader, overarching frame. The structure of our lessons, our semester, our mini-activities needs to have a larger […]
The slides from my presentation at the 2009 ACTEM Conference are now online, and can be downloaded here. This is the original description for this session: As new technologies appear, how do users react, and why? We will merge Don Ihde’s work with TPCK/SAMR to answer this, and develop practical examples to address it. Additional […]
I strongly recommend reading this blog post by Christine Brockmeyer on her personal (non) experiences with computers in education. Dat Erliefniss mam Computer am “Communication visuelle” Kuer wat d’Christine eis héi beschréift, weisst ganz schein, dass de fait de Computer als creation tool anzesetzen direkt, quasi automatesch och eng aaner sozial form vu léieren mat […]
Ech huen dei texter an der reihenfoleg gelies wei se um moodle stungen, an dat huet dofir gesuergt das ech beim läschten text e bessi verwonnert war. Dei eischt 5 texter gungen empfong iwwert dei verschieden aspekter vum behaviorismus. Dei eing gungen bessi mei iwwert den behaviorimus am algemengen an wei et sech entweckelt huet. […]
Die meisten Texter handelten darüber, wie es zum Behaviorismus gekommen ist, welcher die Gründer davon waren und wer was bewirkt hat. Auf der anderen Seite gingen verschiedene Texte mehr ins Detail, z.B. wie Behaviorismus eingeteilt ist, welche Unterkategorien es davon gibt. Dann gab es noch die Zusammenfassung des Buchs von Alfie Kohn, der ganz kritisch […]