TEACHING AND LEARNING

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• Dangers of Nationals Standards; lets get as mad as hell!

  
  leading and learning — Authority: 113
  Intelligence testing on Ellis Island for immigrants entering the land of the free. Testing has had a long history sorting out people using doubtful measures. Nothing has changed it seems. Testing reflects the mindsets, or ideology, of those who set the tests. I recently read about a book Wounded by School and ...
  16 hours ago

• Pondering Proverbs

  
  Higgaion — Authority: 465
  As always, I scheduled one day of class into this semester to give students some contact with the “mainstream” biblical wisdom tradition as represented (for example) in Proverbs, Psalm 1, and so on. However, I don’t feel like I teach the book of Proverbs very well, perhaps because I don’t really enjoy the ...
  1 day ago

• The Millennial Muddle

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  Hoover, E. (2009) The Millennial Muddle Chronicle of Higher Education , October 11 This very LONG article looks ostensibly at the business that discussing millennials has led to for consultants (quoi, moi? Absolutement, non!), although in reality it is a wonderful unconscious description of the culture of the United ...
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• e-Portfolios for teacher candidates

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  Paul, C. and Schofield, A. (2009) e-Portfolios for teacher candidates UBC e-Strategy Update, October 14 This is a discussion and evaluation of the use of e-portfolios at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Education. Teacher candidates are encouraged to collect artifacts and written corresponding ...
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• Managing curriculum change

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  JISC (2009) Managing curriculum change Bristol UK: JISC Another interesting publication from the UK’s Joint Information Steering Committee . This is a short (6 page) well-illustrated document.From the website: Managing Curriculum Change introduces two major JISC programmes of research commencing in 2008 that ...
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• Why ’21st century skills’ are important educational goals

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  Downes, S. (2009) An operating system for the mind , Stephen’s Blog, September 19 In case you missed it when it first came out (I did – thanks Burkhard Lehmann, for pointing me to it): a typical Downes rant: brilliant, well-argued, passionate, and this time right. Move over, Rick Mercer. (Must be the Atlantic ...
  2 days ago

• unbelievably suicidal KL rush hour

  
  ::: another blank page ::: — Authority: 118
  Im in a foreign place, different bed, different toilet, different air. Im away from my husband, my parents and my family. Im so not used to this. Its like asrama all over again. thats how i felt staying in the staff apartment nearby my office. my parents went to PD earlier this week and i crashed at my friends ...
  2 days ago

• Two new Psalms videos

  
  Higgaion — Authority: 465
  My Religion 101 class will study selected psalms on Tuesday. To help lay a foundation for our in-class activities, I created the following videos, two of which I uploaded just a couple of hours ago: Parallelism in Biblical Hebrew Poetry Poetic Structures in the Psalms Sorting Through the Psalms Enjoy! ...
  2 days ago

• Silly quotation of the day

  
  Higgaion — Authority: 465
  In a carefully designed test at Norwich University in England, teachers gave a lecture specifically designed to be effective (McLeish, 1968). — L. Dee Fink, Creating Significant Learning Experiences (Jossey-Bass, 2003) In the real world, has any teacher ever given a lecture specifically designed to be in ...
  2 days ago

• Biblical Hebrew prepositions teaching slide

  
  Higgaion — Authority: 465
  Some time ago, I shared with you a slide that I used in my Hebrew 330 class to visually show students the usage of various Biblical Hebrew prepositions. Subsequent to correspondence with Karyn Traphagen, I had intended to make the slide available in various formats, but then I dropped the ball … until now. (Be ...
  3 days ago

• New resources on YouTube and iFlipr

  
  Higgaion — Authority: 465
  Since returning from the 2009 Society of Biblical Literature meeting, I’ve uploaded three new YouTube videos. One relates to my Religion 101 class: Parallelism in Biblical Hebrew Poetry I will soon (today, if all goes well) supplement that one with additional videos on poetic structures in the psalms and form ...
  3 days ago

• Work-based learning for lifelong learners

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  Basiel, A. (2009) One size doesn’t fit all Online Educa Berlin The Institute for Work Based Learning (IWBL) at Middlesex University in the United Kingdom has been providing professionals with access to university-level qualifications, ranging from diplomas to advanced research degrees, for over fifteen years. ...
  3 days ago

• Online conference on social networking in the workplace

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  The Canadian Network for Innovation in Education invites you to an online conference on 16 December at 1:00 P.M. Eastern on: Social Networking in the Workplace Stephanie Taylor , Manager of Systems Development Services at the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo hopes ...
  3 days ago

• Lifelong learning in Canada

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  Statistics Canada (2009) Lifelong Learning Among Canadians Aged 18 to 64 Years: First Results from the 2008 Access and Support to Education and Training Survey Ottawa: Statistics Canada, Culture, Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics : Research Papers) ( PDF Version, 307 kb ) Some selected results ...
  4 days ago

• OpenSim Hypergrid!

  
  Oh! Virtual Learning! — Authority: 112
  Okay, yall. I dont really get this yet? But I will. The analogy is that Ive cracked open this door. I see amazing things through the crack. And I so cant wait to share it that I turn around and run to the phone on my wall to call everyone I know. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Hypergrid
  4 days ago

• Handbook for teachers on practical use of Web 2.0 and social software

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 494
  Some of you may remember that in May I posted an order form for the EU Taccle projec t handbook on e-Learning – snappily entitled “Teachers Aids on Creating Content for Learning Environments.” Don’t be put off by the title – in my mind this is the best practical handbook I have seen yet about using Web @.0 ...
  6 days ago

• Defining the ‘open’ in open content

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  David Wiley has posted a blog where he attempts to define what open content means: Wiley, D. (2009) Defining ‘open’ Iterating towards openness , November 16. Wiley defines four characteristics of open content – the 4Rs – and the discussion following the blog is also interesting. Thanks to Burkard Lehmann ...
  1 week ago

• The New Media School

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 494
  Last Wednesday I was honoured to speak (via skype) at the launch of the New Media School in Bucharest. The launch took place in the Modern Art Museum who are a partner in the project. The New Media School is a fascinating initiative by the students union to promote social and collaborative learning. For me the most ...
  1 week ago

• SBL 2009: Saturday

  
  Higgaion — Authority: 465
  Whew! Saturday at SBL 2009 proved rather busy and hectic for me, and the first half of Sunday looks about the same. Remember those iTunes U and YouTube videos that I’ve been posting recently? Pepperdine University funded the equipment and software to produce those videos with a Faculty Innovation in Technology and ...
  1 week ago

• What Does Learning Mean to You?

  
  Angela Maiers Educational Services — Authority: 535
  Ive been told that, with a strong wind, I can really get going.  To me, learning is an ever-changing weather pattern.  For me, learning is themost amazing, exciting, frustrating, intoxicating, messy, beautifulexperience - and its what makes me feel alive. Others ponder the question: IPT520 ...
  1 week ago

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