I’ve been attending a seminar on “portfolio as a tool for professional development” on friday, that was organized by Michelle Brendel, one of my colleagues in the Bachelor in Educational Sciences @ uni.lu. And I’ve learned something (amongst other things, I guess) about how to use colored post-its to find out what topics or questions […]
Within the BNU portal it’s possible to create an automated bibliographic search and get email notifications if new references are published. Very nice. I’ll have to try that. Posted via email from the material mind 0
Sometimes physical objects can act as support for material metaphors… Below is a picture of a newly installed gate on Campus Walferdange. To me, it just looks like it’s trying to tell us a nice monday-morning-hangover-blues story 🙂 Posted via email from the material mind 0
Last night I attended a conference, organized by the Luxembourgish Green Party, given Mr Reinhard Kahl on “Schulen: Treibhäuser der Zukunft”… and since had no sheet of paper on me, but a pen (the 70% bio pen distributed by the Greens for promotion purposes…) and since I really wanted not to forget an interesting motto […]
With a classroom configuration like back in the last century… 😉 very appropriate to illustrate the presented theory of learning… Bob Reuter Posted via email from the material mind 0
Sometimes long speeches are necessary to convince people of some not-yet-clear truths. Sometimes very simple words can do the same. I think that Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computers, Inc. got the whole thing right with this very short paragraph: "But my teacher got a Sunnyvale [computer] company to let me come in and program. […]
I’ve discovered yesterday that there is a scientific theory (and a name) for my own private conception of academic/professional training… Vanhulle, Merhan & Ronveaux (2007) have described 4 different models of academic training program that also aim at the development of professional competencies… which they call “modèles d’alternance”, since students switch or alternate between moments of […]
Many people, especially students, think that we learn from experiences. It’s so easy to say “We’ve learned a lot from what we experienced during our internship in this class…”, but when asked to say what this really was that they’ve learned, they often have great difficulties… I’ve recently found this quote here and I really […]
I think this paragraph on Theories of Learning is paramount to understand what such theories are and what they are not! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_theory_(education) “Learning as a process focuses in what happens when the learning takes place. Explanations of what happens are called learning theories. A learning theory is an attempt to describe how people and animals learn, thereby […]
We have heard so much these last years about the information age, or – building upon that very idea, and expanding it – the knowledge society. According to the knowledge society concept, information is worth nothing as long as it has not been transformed into useable knowledge. Schools have been called to change accordingly. They […]