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Leveraging on social media in education

Posted by: ashleytan on: May 7, 2010

Larry Sanger, one of the co-founders of Wikipedia, wrote an article in Educause titled Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age. It was a thought-provoking read and I started writing my thoughts on it but had trouble finishing them as there were two major fragments. Of the two, the one below is a bit more developed. [...]

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 [...]

Facebook, facehook

Posted by: ashleytan on: March 1, 2010

[image source, used under CC licence] Chris Dawson recounts a conversation at the Education Worldwide Summit where two students, one 15 years-old and the other 17, shared their thoughts on social media in education. Most schools (ours included), frown upon teachers “friending” students. Unfortunately, that has ended badly in enough cases to just make it a [...]

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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