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Tag: Teaching and Learning Strategies

  • Hurried toward burnout? Encouragement, Self Esteem and Achievement.

    Over the last few months, I’ve had several reasons to expand my scope of cursory research to beyond how technology can be brought into the classroom. It is certainly something that is still interesting, but I’m firmly of the mind now that it is not the technology that we need to be concerned with (I’ve…

  • Should we hurry our infants?

    Much of my interest in games and learning came from my youth playing games as seeing that there were potentially a really effective tool to deliver content. Though at the time I was playing those games, I wasn’t thinking about teaching and learning. I only saw how playing games about an age or time helped…

  • John Seely Brown on Tinkering

    Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production in a Digital Age: John Seely Brown from carnegie commons on Vimeo.

  • Microlectures

    I picked this one up off of Twitter (@mcleod) – microlectures via The Chronicle of Higher Education. One of the things that we have been trying to impress on instructors is that they don’t need to record entire lectures and infact 5-10 minutes is all that is needed. But these 60second bits could be the…

  • Anti-teaching

    I haven’t heard it called this, but working toward question generation and self relevance is certainly a great idea.