Jay Cross starts off by looking back to his school days – when slide rules ruled, and pocket calculators just added up. (I’m not quite that old, but maths was definitely log books only, though calculators could be used for Physics etc). The main point though is looking at how things have changed over time…
Category: Educational
Computer games 'motivate pupils'
BBC NEWS A third of teachers are using computer games in the classroom and a majority believe they improve pupils’ skills and knowledge, a survey suggests. There isn’t any mention made in the article about what games (if any) were involved in this first stage – i.e what’s going on now. However, they have said…
Grading Blogs
Blogs / Weblogs in Higher Education We haven’t yet started to grade blog use, though I have attempted to grade contributions to discussion boards. These seem like some useful pointers though – covering both technical and pedagogic points….
Using Blogs to Teach Philosophy
Using blogs to teach philosophy. This opens with the statement Students taking their first philosophy course often express surprise when encouraged to use I in their papers. Unlike academic writing in most other disciplines, philosophical writing frequently and strongly states the I because philosophers have to develop and defend their own positions. They cannot weasel…
'Educore' to Aid Collaboration
EduCore A wikipage (so might change), discussing the implications of utilising Open Source in HE, and some of the issues blocking its use. Fuchs suggets that were more universities to collaborate over open source projects (e.g. Sakai), then the support etc., would be there. Via: OL daily…
Boys and Learning This actual post is thinking about whether or not e-books might be a way to get boys reading. What I’ve found interesting is the fact that Last year, 60% of boys in Washington State failed the test, compared to 54% of girls (See TeleRead for more info) A recent UK report suggested…
A summary of the Open source for Education in Europe conference
FLOSSE Posse summary of the first Open Source in Education conference in Europe. Links to presentations, other blogs etc….
Handbook of enquiry & Problem Based learning
Online book – I’ve not read it yet, but the chapter titles look inviting & Steven’s comments make it sound worth a read:
This comprehensive volume composed of about twenty individual essays not only offers a good grounding in enguiry and problem based learning but looks at them in practice, as each essay contains numerous examples and case studies. If you are interested in either approach to teaching and learning, then this volume is a must-read. Nice to see the free download and Creative Commons license, too.
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WebServices for Teaching and Learning
The NITLE News Volume 4, Number 4, Fall 2005. The main article of this edition looks at webservices, so pretty much tied up with Web 2.0. As the article concludes, Web 2.0 is very much in its infancy; the applications to education even more so. May well be interesting to look back at in say…
Internet – Friend or Foe of Learning
Terraviva , an online edition of TerraViva, have a report from the recent World Summit on the Information Society, looking at the reaction of some Chilean schools to the “problems” introduced by allowing children to Word process homework (plagiarism being the main issue). Other teachers are commenting on the fact that while computers have been…