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New book!

I’ve just finished compiling and uploading the new student-book on “Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Learning”, full of papers written by my bachelor students. http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/auf-den-spuren-lew-wygotskis/7436116 0

23 July 2009 at 11:52 - Comments

Book Review: “Everything Bad is Good For You” by Steven Johnson

I’ve started to read “Everything Bad is Good For You” by Steven Johnson over a “Pizza chèvre”. Johnson wants to argue, a bit in line with Wim Veen’s ideas on digital natives’ use of media, that popular culture does not make us dumber (as is re-iterated by so many scholars, cf. Manfred Spitzer) but that [...]

1 July 2009 at 08:17 - Comments

Book Review: “Lernen: Ein pädagogischer Grundbegriff” by Michael Göhlich & Jörg Zirfas

I’ve started to read “Lernen: Ein pädagogischer Grundbegriff” by Michael Göhlich & Jörg Zirfas a week ago. It has been recommanded to me by Pierre Fixmer (lecturer @ uni.lu) and will be one of the books we’ll use for our seminar in the Bachelor in Educational Sciences programme “Exploring Perspectives on Learning” next semester. So [...]

1 July 2009 at 08:14 - Comments

Book Review: “Basiswissen Multimedia – Band 2: Lernen” by Andreas Holzinger

I’ve just received and started to read A. Holzinger’s Book on Learning with Multimedia… and I’m really happy that I’ve bought this book… It’s simply exactly the book-of-reference we should have had right from the start for our “Learning with Media” seminar in the BScE. It covers every aspect of our seminars, from the way [...]

1 July 2009 at 08:13 - Comments

Book Review: “The Good Teacher: Dominant discourses in teaching and teacher education” by Alex Moore

I’ve just received this book on the “good teacher question” from Amazon. I’m trying to deepen my knowledge about this strain of research, because I want to provide my tutees (students of the bachelor in educational sciences) with better guidance on their own way to “becoming a teacher”. I particularly like, in this book, the [...]

1 July 2009 at 08:08 - Comments
bob at 08:12 on 1 July 2009
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Book Review: “Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) for Educators” by AACTE

I’ve recently “discovered” the TPCK model, by browsing the iTunesU catalogue and falling over Dr. Ruben Puentedura’s video podcast called “As We May Teach” (see: http://www.hippasus.com/). I was totally unaware of the theoretical and empirical work done in the field of TPCK, so far and so I was very happy to see that there are [...]

1 July 2009 at 08:07 - Comments