Posts Tagged ‘education’
Minecraft education?
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 11, 2012
Video source This is Minecraft. This is Minecraft EDU. I am not thinking about Minecraft EDU when I refer to Minecraft education. I am referring to getting an education by playing Minecraft, watching strategy and spoof videos about the game, writing tips for or stories about it, creating mods, talking about strategies, revising design, etc. I [...]
Learning without frontiers
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 25, 2012
by Dopamind Sometimes I draft blog entries and I forget about them. I was reminded of this one when it popped up on one of my mobile devices. I had read this NYT article about the Learning Without Frontiers conference and was surprised that the delegates were “given” an iPad. The cost must have been [...]
Educated, not schooled, in values
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 24, 2012
I enjoyed reading this article in the Straits Times (yeah, it was a rare “like” moment), Giving kids heart and wings [PDF]. It was written by a parent who thinks that values education begins at home and that it must be modelled first by parents. But there was one thing I did not agree with and [...]
Godin’s education manifesto
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 3, 2012
I managed to consume a little bit of Seth Godin’s manifesto on education on my flight between Adelaide and Sydney earlier this week. I got to the part on “What is school for?” when a flight attendant told me to put my iPhone away even though it was in flight mode. Godin proposed four purposes [...]
Finnish first in education
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 17, 2012
by I like Lots and lots have been said about the quality of Finnish education. I admire what they do and how they do it. I do not envy those who want to try to replicate or borrow ideas for implementation. I am not going to add much to that conversation either. But I will point [...]
Doing great
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 6, 2012
Video source Quote from this video of Sir Ken Robinson: …the technologies that we have available in schools don’t make for great education, but great educators can make something great of them. He said this in the context of turning alternative education into mainstream education. The rationale? We have “alternative” forms of education because the [...]
A comic life
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 24, 2011
Almost every Friday, I have a McDonald’s breakfast with my son before I drop him off at school. It is something my son looks forward to because it is McDonald’s and because it signals the weekend. I, on the other hand, feel the need to “detox” after such breakfasts, so I have just fruits for [...]
Educator’s Day?
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 2, 2011
We mark Teachers’ Day in Singapore today. It is a school holiday and some schools have appreciation dinners and celebrations the day before. Newspapers do the obligatory articles on teachers and flower shops mark up their wares. Many thanks to CeL staff for the surprise Teachers' Day party. Can't believe they pulled another one on [...]
A class of your own
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 26, 2011
You can pick up just about any edtech-related research paper, and if it was designed quasi-experimentally, the intervention (with technology) will probably have some significant academic gain on the control. Sometimes there is no statistical significance academically, but there are gains in other measures, e.g., learner attitudes. If the researchers are honest, they will admit [...]
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