Posts Tagged ‘change’
Why bother breaking the mould?
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 15, 2009
Steve Wheeler wrote two very interesting blog entries.
One was “Why do I bother?” which outlined why he blogged. I can relate to his reasons. Also noteworthy are Jeff Cobb’s five reasons to reflect daily and John Connell’s slow blogging.
Wheeler also wrote about breaking the mould of education, i.e. changing it radically for the better. He [...]
Google-proof questions/exams?
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 4, 2009
The Electric Educator blogged about Google-Proof Questioning: A New Use for Bloom’s Taxonomy. Like me, you might have been drawn to the Google-proofing part of his blog topic.
After reading his entry, I concluded that he made one excellent point, but skimmed on another in the process.
He suggested how teachers could use a job aid based [...]
No one knows everything, but everyone knows something
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 17, 2009
That was my favourite quote from Polivka’s recent blog entry. Simple but true.
Call it what you will, crowdsourcing or the wisdom of crowds, it is here to stay and evolve. Information, knowledge and power lie not only in the Internet, but also in the people and the connections between people that network via the Internet.
As [...]
To book or not to book
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 5, 2009
Bryan Polivka asked for input for a session titled The End of Book Learning: Why the Next Textbook… Isn’t One. He has already received some input and has responded with another blog entry. Here’s a choice quote:
I don’t think a textbook, by nature, is actually a book at all. It is in essence a wholly [...]
Mobile now
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 3, 2009
The future is mobile. That point is moot considering how mobile we are already. I am talking about the prevalence of smartphones like the iPhone.
We have Facebook Lite to benefit people who have only Internet access via their phones. Sites like this feature how important mobile phones are for local economies, women’s rights, weather updates, [...]
It’s context, not isolation
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 27, 2009
I found this Vimeo video from a ReadWriteWeb article, You Can’t Squeeze Knowledge From a Pixel.
Video source
It has little to do with education. However, it reminded me of something I try to emphasize in the ICT course that I facilitate and am now harping on in the EdPsyII course. What makes learning meaningful is context, [...]
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 [...]
TEKL will tickle
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 22, 2009
TEKL is no laughing matter, but it certainly tickled my neurons.
Connectivism guru, George Siemens, wrote a lengthy but stimulating blog entry about TEKL, Technologically Externalized Knowledge and Learning.
Siemens provides a visualization of what TEKL is, but I think that it is best to read why he came up with it and how he explains it. [...]
Come into the light
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 15, 2009
I followed Tuck Soon’s tweets as he attended a briefing on baseline ICT standards for students. His culminating tweet:
Baseline ICT Pupil Standards in Singapore http://bit.ly/1B7WV2 Notice the huge emphasis on Microsoft Office and lack of Web 2.0 #edtech
In light of all Singapore schools adopting Google Apps for Education by the end of this year and [...]
