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…
Author: Bob Reuter
Neuroplasticity and Learning
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!…
Cloudworks
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…
EdTech2 Project Idea: Foreign Subtitles Help but Native-Language Subtitles Harm Foreign Speech Perception
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…
Learning and Motivation to Learn
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…
Argleton – Counter Evidence #1
Seems that now I can find it on the iPhone!!! Strange! Posted via email from the material mind
Argleton – Evidence #1
The city of Argleton cannot be found on Google Maps! on the iPhone. Posted via email from the material mind
Bad journalism or fast IT reaction?
In today’s issue (04.11.2009, p.22) of L’esssentiel, a free daily newspaper in Luxembourg, I read an article about the fictive city Argleton… A city that apparently only exists in cyberspace and could be found on Google Maps, somewhere close to Liverpool, UK, Europe. The newspaper article proposes a number of…
2009 Halloween Class Video
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…
LSF Lexique: Les termes de spécialité en Langue des Signes Française
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”…