Archive for October, 2008
Quick Writing the web
More of a note on an idea for in-class activity rather e-learning per se. Clarence Fisher has just posted a blog about a recent exercise with his pupils which involved them free writing in order to gain a better comprehension of a subject (in this case the web).
He used ‘quick write’ which involves asking a [...]
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Where are we going? Let’s talk about Web 3.0 and Web 4.0.
Currently we’re in the middle of web 2.0 in which the internet is characterised as being ‘read/write’ In other words you can not only read web content but you can also add your own content to the web as well. Example technology includes wikis, blogs, shared content (YouTube, Flickr) and of course social networks (Facebook). [...]
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Pedagogy 2.0
Transforming Pedagogy through Social Software by Catherine McLoughlin and Mark J. W. Lee Web Link
Short paper which briefly looks at the opportunities offered by web 2.0 technology (wikis, blogging etc.) in terms of enabling students to become content creators. Consideration is given the notion of ‘pedagogy 2.0’ which is essentially a learner centred environment founded [...]
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Teachers! You should adjust your teaching to individual students’ learning styles
…or then again maybe not. According to Professor Daniel T. Willingham (University of Virginia) learning styles don’t exist.
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Time for Scribes
I noticed that Lynn Bhania has got her First year School of Education students blogging. Check them out via Blog Central – some great stuff there.
Anyway in relation blogging I thought I would link to this entry posted in the Sargent Park Math Zone – which school class blog (US). Basically the blog is used [...]
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Students – sharing images
Couple of interesting things on the Sargent Park Math Zone blog.
First off it’s good example of how a teacher is using the blog to set assignments / deliver a course (in this case to Grade 8 students, 13 – 14 year old).
And second note the assignment:
“Welcome to Math. Tonight you have an assignment. You have [...]
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