Posts Tagged ‘article’
Insidious pedagogy?
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 15, 2010
[image source, used under CC licence] I have mixed thoughts on this article, Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems impact teaching by Lisa Lane. The article is based on the premise that course management systems (CMS) like Blackboard have an inherent pedagogy, which is limited to traditional forms of teaching, and this in turn impacts [...]
The cost of (no) mobile learning
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 23, 2010
[image source, used under CC licence] Education Week’s article, Mobile Learning Makes Its Mark on K-12, is mistitled. Mobile learning hasn’t made a dent! The article starts by stating the need for large scale research to determine impact that will convince decision makers to adopt mobile devices so that they become the norm rather than [...]
STIC in the mud?
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 22, 2010
This isn’t exactly breaking news. But I only just found out that the School Technology Innovation Centre (currently occupied by the Centre of Excellence for Learning Innovation) will be located beside the MxL (which I used to run) right here in NIE. [source, click screencap for larger version] So what could I possibly have against [...]
One man’s trash…
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 8, 2010
Is another man’s treasure. [image source, used under CC licence] A new centre in Cambridge is to study computer games and comics as forms of literature consumed by learners. The short BBC report reveals why: “If what we regard as trash is popular with young people, we need to know why and whether, as researchers [...]
Learning styles: Bah, humbug?
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 21, 2009
Here is an interesting article from The Chronicle: Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students. The recommendation of the study is: for instructors… [to] not waste any time or energy trying to determine the composition of learning styles in their classrooms… Instead, teachers should worry about matching their instruction to the content [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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