The recent EARCOS teachers conference was held in Kuala Lumpur. I was able to attend a workshop session with Art Costa titled: Learning to Listen with Skill and Empathy. I didn’t expect to be impacted as much as I was … I guess I should have known better.
In a very simple and effective means [...]
Dreaming is an adventure I find myself constantly on. I will now be trying to pull some of my colleagues along the digital road. Coming in the next month I will be starting a podcast and/or vodcast called iEd_U_Tek … iNnovative Educators Using Technology. My goal is to feature educators and the way they use [...]
Students love to podcast, no doubt about it. For students, it’s like learning without the pain. It’s a great learning activity. But what will the students learn?
As an educator, we must ask ourselves what we want students to learn before assigning a podcast. Here are some typical questions one should ask before assigning and design [...]
The following are some good tips for practice in designing educational podcasts. Most of these come from practices I use in my weekly podcast to parents … I call it TWiC … This Week in Class.
1. Identify your aims, objectives, and audience.
2. Use more than one voice – monologues can be boring, two make it [...]
In the article, The Digital Learning Environment: What the Research Tells Us, written by Kate Kemker written in 2005, she highlights some research about learning environments. I would like to highlight some of the findings and comment on them.
THE DIGITAL CLASSROOM
Technology is a tool to be employed by the students in all curriculum areas to [...]
Top 100 Tools for Learning
In July 2007 Jane Hart, head of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, in Somerset, England asked 64 e-learning experts to list their top 10 productivity and teaching tools. A free PDF download version lists the tools by type and gives key information about each one.
The top ten most [...]
There is a challenge today that teacher’s must face … teaching the digital native. All of us, teachers, are digital immigrants. So how do we reach out to these kids? Here are some suggestions:
1. Change our presentation. Reach the kids by picking up the pace – go faster, less of the step-by-step teaching approach. Give [...]
Occasionally I come across people who wonder “How kids can do that?” They see them working five windows of MSN, texting on the mobile phone, and homework at the same time. I know people wonder because I look at my own daughter in amazement. “How does she do that?”
Marc Prensky wrote an article in 2001 [...]
I have a wireless keyboard/mouse in my room. When we begin to brainstorm ideas I give the my TWiT (technology worker in training) the keyboard and another the mouse. Immediate ownership – whenever someone gives an idea I add their name or initials to the idea. That really catches them. Then as a class, [...]
