People manage to progress merrily through life, using seemingly archaic tools such as ‘email’ (good grief remember when that seemed innovative?) without understanding the etiquette involved.
With Web 2 tools being used in teaching and general communication, it is important for teachers to role model good ‘netiquette’ and also to familiarise their students with it as [...]
Recently, I had lunch with a dear friend. While we were chatting, she told me that she would dearly like to enrol into some computer lessons, so that she doesn’t lose touch with technology. I admire her for realising that this is a need in her life. I was thinking about her comments afterwards and [...]
Working in an institution gave me foundations!
In a past life, (for 28 years) I worked in the disability field, more specifically, with people with intellectual disability and autism. In the late 1970’s I left school in the country, arrived in Melbourne and began work in at Kingsbury Training Centre, a new ‘forward thinking’ institution for [...]
Is your organisation pushing or pulling e-learning?
E-learning is in high demand, let’s face it, and teaching and learning organisations are under pressure to keep up with demand.
Are teachers willing to embrace e-learning, or is it a constant struggle or ‘push’ to develop the skills in technology required to create engaging e-learning resources?
Is your organisation recognising [...]
Marketing and recruitment campaigns run hot in this competitive world. Do we deliver to our students what we say we will or are they left feeling disappointed with their expectations unfulfilled?
Just recently, I made a decision which seemed exciting at the time, but unfortunately things didn’t work out as I expected. It has got me [...]
At school I was often considered odd!
Well maybe I was/am…? I long suspected that in my childhood, certain abilities were seen as being more valuable than others for reasons that didn’t make sense. Thankfully, my mother understood my strange creative personality, as did the occasional teacher, although most didn’t! How do we develop our creativity [...]
Have you watched the movie Slumdog millionaire? Those who have, may have drawn the same parallels as I have. Those who haven’t watched the movie, can read this blog and then go watch it. Before you ask… no, I don’t have shares in the movie!
For those who haven’t seen the movie, Slumdog Millionaire is the [...]
How do you learn best?
Learning is an active, social process. Using Blogs and Wikis for teaching is embracing the concept that students don’t learn best passively, they learn best from using experiential and constructivist learning.
Above: Kolb’s Learning Cycle
Using blogs and/or wikis for teaching is a great solution for encouraging reflection and collaboration [...]
Here is a reminder for why we teach….. just in case you need to re-visit it for the new year!
Benjamin Zander is the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and on the faculty of the New England Conservatory. “Zander is a prophet of human potential…Watch as he helps unlock the boundless potential of a 15 [...]
Research abounds with information about learning styles and how the classroom environment influences student learning. So why do the school classrooms continue to be designed with a generic approach to the layout of casework, furniture, computers and the design of the classroom shape?
How can the physical classroom space best support different styles of learning and [...]
