Archive for May 2009
How to be an innovative educator
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 30, 2009
The Innovative Educator has a list of 25 Random Things Innovative Educators Can Do To Enhance Teaching and Learning.
I take this list to read as is. As in the fact that the educator is already innovative. It is not a list of things to do in order to be more innovative!
The mostly technology-related tips range [...]
Windows 7 Touch Pack Multitouch Apps
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 29, 2009
From Gizmodo: Windows 7 Touch Pack Multitouch Apps Let You Fondle the Globe or Play Death Pong.
We need to create a Windows 7 partition in the MxL’s surface computing prototype and try these apps out!
Game design to revolutionise life?
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 26, 2009
I read an interesting feed from a Wired report about how someone designed a game around email. Unfortunately, the feed seems to have broken from the original article. Fortunately, someone archived it for all to see.
The problem? Email overload at work because people were sending out messages willy-nilly.
The game design solution? A communications professor at [...]
ShowDocument
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 24, 2009
According to LifeHacker, ShowDocument allows “instant document-, whiteboard-, and browser-sharing sessions with anyone. You can collaborate on documents in real-time without the hassle of installing an application, and everyone involved can save the result.”
Sounds like a nifty tool that my teacher trainees can use next semester!
Stephen Heppell on ICT and games
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 21, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j5S1XiKw84
Video source
Much of what Heppell says about gaming in education is similar to James Paul Gee’s thoughts. That is not a bad thing because it shows that the same kinds of thinking are emerging in different contexts!
If the future is like cars
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 20, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScUq7iZk9rQ
Video source
…then schools now are like railways.
You’ll get run over if you have a one-track mind!
So what’s new?
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 19, 2009
The online Straits Times decided to feature something from My Paper (slow news day?) and in the Breaking News section no less.
The article? Kids’ errors posted online. A secondary school teacher posted “her students’ poor English usage in their assignments on her Facebook account.”
Of course people had a reaction to that. The article was careful [...]
The numbers game
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 19, 2009
The student:teacher ratio in a recent report by the Ministry of Education, Singapore (MOE) troubles me.
In January this year, I blogged about how I thought the recommendations for changes in our Primary schooling system was a step in the right direction. In April, MOE made a press release [PDF] indicating that the recommendations would be [...]
