All Blog Posts Tagged 'learning' (9)




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Just a quick post on my research project, which began in my blog with the series of posts on Myths of Teaching & Learning some months ago, and was born of my interest to investigate the inertia to change of educational institutions and the alleged crisis of higher ed, especially in the States.

I had a wonderful opportunity this summer to be awarded a Scholar-in-Residence grant from …

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JOHN HATTIE has spent his life studying the studies to find out what works in education. His advice to teachers? Just shut up.

Professor Hattie, appointed this year as the director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, says teachers need to stop spending 80 per cent of their time in class talking and start listening.

''When teachers stop talking deep learning takes place,'' he told a conference of educators at Parramatta…

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I am republishing here a post I did recently with an interview with Clay Shirky. It is related to my research on the myths of Teaching and learning, technology & media. I am copying it here, but the video of the interview (as well as the original summary) is here: An Interview with Clay Shirky.

 

You can also access the series of posts on the Myths here: …

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Learning in Networks of Knowledge is a new paradigm for higher education, based on the changing nature and form of knowledge work in contemporary digital networked conditions. The LINK site explores and supports this knowledge – network – learning approach. LINK contains dozens of ideas about teaching and learning via the Internet, as well as tools (freely available web-based applications) that you can use.

While throughout the site the term “web 2.0″ is used to describe the…

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Does differential access to computer technology at home compound the educational disparities between rich and poor? Would a program of government provision of computers to early secondary school students reduce these disparities? The authors use administrative data on North Carolina public school students to corroborate earlier surveys that document broad racial and socioeconomic gaps in home computer access and use. Using within‐student variation in home computer access, and… Continue

The digital divide is still with us. Most people collect the ideas of the divide in old ways. Marc Prensky calls the groupings

digital natives and digital immigants. I add the digitally deficient to that group and the digital pioneers.



Later in a different blog I will discuss the digital, content, infrastructure and cultural divides.



We often forget that htere are many who haven't got a clue as to the world of the Internet. Many adolescents with access

are fluent… Continue