Tag: Teaching and Learning Strategies

  • Web2.0 Up to Speed

    Via OLDaily, I found this post about how one can get into Web2.0 in terms of the classroom. Though I don’t have time to get into it, I don’t think Web2.0 as we see it now is going to be the “future” as much anymore, rather Web2.0 is seeding what will cause change around education…

  • Homework and reflection

    Yesterday in a curriculum meeting the topic of assessments, student workload and homework came up. As the different ideas went around the table ranging from “students have questions that they can do if they want” to what seemed to amount to another day’s work in the evening, I interjected. I suggested that there is no…

  • Everything from Kinder

    If you have time, take a look at Alan Kay‘s 20 talk at TED. He uses etoys in the video and shows how many of us, especially in higher ed (my 2 bits) make things more complex than we need to in order to get anything done when it comes to teaching students. Starting with…

  • NMC – New Horizon 2008

    You’ve gotta respect the people who walk the walk and talk the talk. One of these groups is the New Media Consortium (at least at first blush). They have taken their Horizon 2008 report and dumped it into Comment Press to make it a living and interactive document. They see collaboration technologies as one of…

  • Scaffolding

    Tomorrow’s Professor has a good post on scaffolding that I think many higher ed instructors should really pay attention to. K-12 teachers are more apt to make use of the technique, so it’s no wonder there is a large transition for many students. Without the scaffolding it is often difficult to get students to “get…