Posts Tagged ‘article’
Pushing the envelope
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 18, 2009
When I read the BBC news article Great writers ‘fail’ online test, I was not surprised. Why? Two reasons.
First, one of the writing samples was actually a speech. Writing for a speech is not the same as writing for print. Yes, you are writing a speech, but not for someone to read like a book. [...]
Getting it wrong to learn
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 23, 2009
Scientific American has an article titled Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn. They might be surprised, but I am not. Educational gamers might refer to this as productive failure or safe failure.
The elements mentioned in the article are what gamers experience all the time. Challenging tests, trial and error, learning and strategizing [...]
Netbooks ideal for learning
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 13, 2009
Jon Bower of eSchool News believes that “netbooks are all the rage, but they don’t really meet the needs of today’s students”. He goes on to say that netbooks are 1) not that cheap, 2) too small, and 3) not powerful enough. He could not be more misinformed or misleading.
Bower gives an example of [...]
Stuck on gaming?
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 6, 2009
Straits Times online featured this article on gaming:
I guess only negative or sensationalistic headlines grab eyeballs. Youth are “stuck” (as in addicted or immobile) and this “raises fears”. This isn’t news, it’s olds. The layperson already has this perception and ST is telling them what they want to read or hear.
If ST really wanted to [...]
Stop assuming
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 5, 2009
It’s been said that we should never ASSUME because doing that makes an ASS of U and ME.
The folks behind Teaching and Developing Online(TADO have proposed that it is time to quit assuming what, how and why students learn. Here’s a snippet:
The information age came and a society that valued education changed, yet the education [...]
Netbooks in primary school
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 30, 2009
Thanks to a Tuck Soon, I discovered a my paper article yesterday on how some North Vista Primary School students were using netbooks.
Click the image above to see a larger version.
I am glad and mad for a couple of reasons. First, the reasons why I am glad.
I have written about netbooks before, the earliest almost [...]
Assuming FTF instruction is the best
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 6, 2009
I thought that the “e-Learning sucks” slideshow I highlighted earlier today was timely. This article in THE Journal, 5 Ways We’re Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best, is just as timely!
It starts:
It’s interesting that face-to-face instruction is still the measure by which all other forms of instruction are evaluated. As the standard model [...]
Innovative practice
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 6, 2009
Someone once said something to the effect of creativity being a state of mind while innovation was something that needed to be practiced.
That saying came to my mind when an RSS feed alerted me of a journal article titled Butterfly under a pin: Exploring the voices and stories told of faculty who adopt [...]
Are schools cheating kids?
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 9, 2009
After reading Larry Magid’s article on the NECC yesterday, I decided to see what else he had written. One article titled Kids cheating with tech but are schools cheating kids? caught my eye.
He started by revealing some statistics on how kids were using cell phones to cheat in school. He then went on to ask [...]
My new ICT approach
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 8, 2009
I read a CNET report by Larry Magid who attended the 30th annual National Educational Computing Conference. One of the things that stood out for him was how the more innovative teachers were attempting to integrate mobile phones and various Web 2.0 technologies into education. This was despite the barriers such as anti-phone policies or [...]
