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All Blog Posts Tagged 'teaching' (7)

Shamblesguru's iPad : The Blog

http://shamblesguruipad.posterous.com/

 I have an iPad2 and a New iPad ... and a very happy nephew who has inherited my iPad1.

This Blog is designed to share the Apps that I have on my iPad ... not only the Apps but also to show how they have been organised in folders. This is more difficult than I thought it would be as many…

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Added by Shamblesguru on May 7, 2012 at 9:30am — No Comments

eBook: "An Educator's iPad" ... published

eBook: "An Educator's iPad" ... published on Amazon and Apple iTunes.

... written for educators and parents who have an interest in mobile learning and especially the use of Apple’s iPad.

It is not a “how-to” manual but a resource for enabling more informed decisions regarding the use of…

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Added by Shamblesguru on March 22, 2012 at 4:49am — No Comments

Zen of Teaching

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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Added by Antonio Vantaggiato on September 9, 2011 at 4:18pm — No Comments

Shut up and Listen if you want deep learning: Andrew Stevenson

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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Added by Reid Cornwell on June 25, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments

Learning in Networks of Knowledge: Applications for a paradigm shift in online learning

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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Added by Reid Cornwell on April 30, 2011 at 8:30am — No Comments

The Paradox of Online Teacher Standards

In my study of the hiring, training, and evaluation of online teachers, I examined standards and training documents from the SREB and iNACOL. These were wonderful documents. If I had been on the committees that created them, the final products would have been much…

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Added by John Adsit on April 21, 2011 at 3:03pm — No Comments

No More Talk and Chalk, Technology and the Digital Divide Educating the Digital Natives -A New Book Offering

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

Added by Bonnie Bracey Sutton on December 3, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments