Archive for the 'K12' Category
Is text-only enough for today’s students?
An interesting post by Vicki A. Davis on the Cool Cat Teacher Blog.
Basically, in terms of teaching students how to tell stories she asks if text is enough.
“So, I ask, is text enough? I believe we should encourage students to select the best mode of communicating their topic. And that students should be familiar with [...]
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K12 Online Conference 2007…
…begins in a few hours.
Although aimed at the K12 (primary & secondary) school sector a lot of the case studies and research presented are applicable to the HE context. The strands include Obstacles to Opportunities, New Tools and Classroom 2.0. A wide range of e-learning topics are covered including web 2.0 tools, blogging, copyright and [...]
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Teacher as Blogger
Okay Primary Edders, one from the archives. This is a Link to a post on Konrad Glogoskis’s blog. It concerns the subject of tutor feedback on student blogs and on how the tutor, in terms of comment content, needs to bridge the gap between providing ‘feedback as the tutor’ to providing ‘feedback as the co-learner’. [...]
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Adding stickies to websites
One for you Primary Edders – Tom Barrett over at ICT in My Classroom has posted another interesting entry. Tom is basically a teacher in the front line of primary education and through the course of teaching makes use of a variety of technology. From reading his blog on a regular basis you get a [...]
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Learning to be myself
Basically an alert to Konrad Glogowski’s latest posting on the Blog of Proximal Development.
Basically he’s reflecting on his current and future role as part of a class blog (he teaches secondary school age children). He’s trying to be less of the teacher/expert role and more of the co-learner – part of the class blog community.
A [...]
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