Category: Resources
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Bloom’s hourglass
Sam Wineburg & Jack Schneider make an interesting case for inverting Bloom’s Taxonomy in their Education Week article. They show quite handily how being able to analyze before doing anything else in a history class might be the way to see if students really understand the material. And it would seem that they are indeed…
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The tool of our tools
First Monday has an interesting article by Lisa Lane (Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems affect teaching, First Monday, Volume 14, Number 10 – 5 October 2009) that starts off with an interesting quote: But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. — Henry David Thoreau Lane continues with a couple of other…
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WA Homework Day
On Oct 21st, the folks behind Wolfram Alpha are going to have an online homework day for k-12 students (no word on how they are going to deal with citing search/knowledge retrieval results), post secondary and educators. They are going to go over how to use the system for a variety of subjects and are…
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More info on Generation txt – It doesn’t hurt
While I was away in Jasper, one of the profs had some of her recent work picked up by seemingly everyone and as it fits well with what I’ve posted before I couldn’t wait to get home and add it to my collection of research on sms speak, neologisms and the like. Connie Varnhagen has…
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World Science – Bobby plays an audience
I must be on a video role here. This is not a TED talk, but certainly as interesting.