Learning mainly
I have several times wondered what had happened to Kathy Sierra. We used her blog post Crash Course in Learning Theory with several courses to try to break people out of merely parroting “Constructivism, Behavourism and usually one other” with poorly examined definitions and application.
I stumbled upon this post from Gardner Campbells blog Gardner Writes: [...]
A fraught question indeed!!
This list from the ROTP project, used in teaching/teacher evaluation:
“The Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) was developed as an observation instrument to provide a standardized means for detecting the degree to which K-20 classroom instruction in mathematics or science is reformed per the national science and mathematics standards.”
The instructional strategies and activities [...]
I was supposed to be in Samoa of this week to take a WikiEducator workshop. Unfortunately I was missing one vital piece of information: I need to have more than six months left on my passport to be able to go to board the plane. I only found out this when I arrived at the [...]
The debate still unresolved.
Probably won’t ever be. From Leigh:
As I teach and facilitate various online courses this year, a lot of the theories and concepts I subscribe to are getting some hard testing. The biggest challenge I am finding is the expectation for a teacher or instructor while everyone talks about a facilitator. I don’t [...]
Gave two talks yesterday.
The new ITAG (IT advisory group) meets once a month for lunch and an informal catch up on various matters at 0ur institution. They invited me in to speak about web 2.0 and benefits (And a guy from the web team to talk for 10 minutes about the other side)
On the TALO [...]
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