Category: Teaching
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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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JSB – Learning in the Digital Age
Teaching the ‘net generation – Brown looks at how pedagogy has moved (or has it?) from knowledge transfer to social models of learning that encourage and indeed rely on the participation and even play on the part of the students and move the instructor from the role of the ultimate authority to one of “content…
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Online is better than F2F, hybrid learning needs to pick up the pace
according to Philip R. Regier, the Dean of Arizona State University’s Online and Extended Campus program: “The technology will be used to create learning communities among students in new ways,” … “People are correct when they say online education will take things out the classroom. But they are wrong, I think, when they assume it…
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Young teachers, no technology… ’cause that isn’t content.
Over lunch today, two of my friends who are both young teachers (one in Edmonton and one in Calgary) and I met for lunch. The conversation came around to teaching different courses and both said that they wouldn’t take their kids into the computer labs, or even teach using the computers until well into the…
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The end of traditonal exams in sight
Well at least according to Simon Lebus, chief executive of Cambridge Assessment talking to The Gaurdian. It’s nice to see someone in a big think tank like that saying this, but the time line that he is talking about is 10-15 years! While that seems like a long time sitting here, that is about the…