Posts Tagged ‘engaged learning’
Engagement and exams
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 14, 2009
Thanks to an email list, I discovered two articles that may interest my preservice teachers.
The first is an Edutopia article on “Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement“.
The other is from Teacher Magazine and is titled “When Testing Fails“. This site requires registration, but it’s free.
I highlight the first article because the course I facilitate is [...]
Web 2.0 and schools
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 9, 2009
Thanks to my reliance on RSS, I came across a good article titled, Web 2.0: What does the future hold for schools?
From the statistics that my blog provider collects, I realise that my readers rarely click on links I make available. So here’s are some of the best bits:
“Web 1.0 was largely a ‘push’ [...]
Pedagogy before technology
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 29, 2009
This New York Times article highlights an important concept: Pedagogy before technology.
The physics department at MIT decided to do away with traditional lectures. Why? Attendance was low and failure rates were high.
Instead, they replaced the lectures with “smaller classes that emphasize(d) hands-on, interactive, collaborative learning” and the attendance has gone up while the failure rate [...]
Math gaming
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 28, 2009
Here’s an article from the New York Times: Start-Up Uses Online Games to Teach Math. (Many thanks to Laremy from last semester for pointing this article out to me.)
The article does not reveal very much about the games themselves, but the approaches taken by the company are progressive.
Here are some choice quotes:
Children pick a theme, [...]
Reach them
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 18, 2009
Many thanks to Carolyn for telling me about the YouTube video below. It is an advertisement for a university in the USA, but the same changes hinted at in the commercial are needed our educational system too!
While the “cool tools” might be obvious in the video, the rethinking of how we [...]
Encouragement and advice
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 1, 2008
I sent out email to one of my classes today because I sensed that the usual semester load was getting to some of my preservice teachers.
I am including part of that email here because these are some things I want to say to all my classes, but don’t always get round to saying. I am [...]
Reviewing reflections 2
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 18, 2008
I think that most of my teacher trainees “got” what I was trying to do at the last session: Model one lesson on engaged learning by engaging them with technology-mediated pedagogies. How do I know they know? I read the entries of those who have already blogged about it!
Li Ling posed an interesting question in [...]
Reviewing reflections 1
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 7, 2008
Previously I wrote about one reason why I liked my trainees to maintain their own blogs: I get to see what is going on in their minds.
Other reasons are the sense of ownership of learning, the sharing of resources, and critical reflection. I’ll cite one example of each in just the 2nd week of class.
Towards [...]
