Posts Tagged ‘teaching’
What makes a good teacher?
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 6, 2012
Ask any teacher, student, administrator, or parent what makes a good teacher and you will rarely get the same set of responses. The panel in the video below shared what they thought. Video source The first main speaker, Sir Michael Wilshaw, highlighted five traits of good teachers: Prepared, reflective, able to think on their feet, [...]
Teach with Twitter?
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 18, 2012
I love Twitter. I like it more than Facebook. My Facebook account is like a passport that I use to establish who I am and to occasionally get me from one place to another. Twitter is my newspaper, information aggregator, bridge builder, mirror, magnifying glass, loud hailer, and more. So I should be thrilled if [...]
A teacher of…?
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 13, 2012
I have been on Twitter for five years. It very quickly became part of my personal learning network (PLN), or as Richard Byrne would prefer to call it, personal sharing network (PSN). Before I learnt from my PLN, I had a ready answer if anyone asked me what I did. I told them WHAT I [...]
Where to stand?
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 18, 2012
We were honoured to have Dr Seah-Tay Hui Yong of Nanyang Girls High School (NYGH) to present a short keynote and share at a concurrent session at e-Fiesta 2012. NYGH is one of several schools in Singapore that have adopted the iPad as a learning tool. It is one of very few (or perhaps the only [...]
Redesigning for 21cc?
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 7, 2012
by superkimbo Before I read this article on Designing the 21st Century K-12 Classroom, I had high hopes that it would offer some good advice. I was disappointed. To be fair, “designing” could refer to lesson planning or to infrastructure. I hoped that it would be about the former, but it turned out to be the [...]
Getting, giving, learning, teaching
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 3, 2012
When you get, give. When you learn, teach. That quote has been attributed to Dr Maya Angelou. She speaks the truth. by adria.richards Rearranging the words results in some other truths. If you give, you get nothing in return or stabbed in the back or funny looks. When you teach, you learn (the most). Before you teach, learn. We [...]
For & against Khan
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 8, 2011
by One lucky guy Not everyone thinks that Salman Khan and his Academy are the future of teaching. I doubt very much that Khan himself would make that claim. At least one blogger has taken issue with Khan’s approach and claims in an entry titled, You Khan’t Ignore How Students Learn. The blogger has a lot to [...]
Rethinking science and mathematics
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 6, 2011
By the time you read this, I will be away on vacation with my family. But I’ll try to keep up if I can get free wifi. by cH@0s I had two main takeaways from last week’s Educamp Singapore. The first was @lekowala‘s (Adrain Loo) summary of his talk: Science 1.0 is about didactic teaching Science [...]
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