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…
Tag: teaching
Using a Visual Metaphor to Illustrate the BScE1 Internship
I’ve been thinking about using a set of visually rich illustrations to graphically represent a metaphor of the requirements we ask our BScE1 students to fulfill (BScE1 = 1 Semester of the Bachelor in Educational Sciences study program). We actually want them to develop into “reflective practitioners” combining two different…
Educational Origami: Integration of ICT into the classroom
Educational Origami is a blog, and a wiki, about the integration of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that we face as teachers. It’s about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching. http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/
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…
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…
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…