Posts Tagged ‘learning’
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, [...]
iPod Touch for learning
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 16, 2009
ProfHacker’s recent entry, What Would It Take to Demonstrate the Academic Value of Handheld Computing? tickled a few of my neurons.
The context of the question is how a few institutes of higher learning in the USA have incorporated iPhones and iPod Touches into education. At least one person I am following on Twitter also shares how [...]
Think and act as teachers
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 23, 2009
One of the things I tell my teacher trainees at the beginning of the semester is to “think and act as teachers, not as students”.
NIE calls them student teachers, but I think too many see themselves as the former rather than the latter. The rest of the world might label them preservice teachers but this [...]
5 reasons to reflect daily
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 15, 2009
Jeff Cobb shares 5 Powerful Reasons to Make Reflection a Daily Learning Habit, and How to Do It in a recent blog entry. I agree wholeheartedly with what he says. I’d add that reflecting helps you self-evaluate, stay balanced, and on top of yourself.
I try to write on weekdays in this blog as well as [...]
Each one, teach one
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 14, 2009
Karl Kapp shares his thoughts on how students can become better learners. They should teach.
I could not agree more. To teach something requires a high level of understanding with that topic.
I tell every class at the beginning of the semester that I benefit the most because I process some of the content over and over [...]
Changing to learn
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 2, 2009
I love this video! I found it only because YouTube recommended it to me based on my viewing habits. (It’s the beginning of Web 3.0 I tell ya!)
But back to the video. The title summarises it well: We need to change to learn and we need to learn to change. Not [...]
Schooling vs. learning
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 19, 2009
I like what Seth Godin had to say about the difference between schooling and learning.
School was the big thing for a long time. School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is ‘getting it’. It’s the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on [...]
It’s not about the tool, it’s about the learning
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 6, 2009
My last rant started with the broadband divide and ended with tired pedagogies (as exemplified by IWBs). I follow up today with a conversation hosted by Tom Barrett.
Barrett shared his views after getting his students to use surface computers (Smart Tables) and invited other educators to share their thoughts. Sharon Elin responded and here are [...]
The future of reading
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 4, 2009
Clive Thompson wrote about the future of reading in a Wired article. I agree fully with him that book publishers need to wake up, listen, adopt, adapt and offer something relevant to readers.
Why?
Book publishers are already getting left behind. They should look at what is currenty happening with the newspaper and magazine industries.
The future of [...]
