Posts Tagged “cool teaching strategies”
The Latest Cark Weiman study Summary: “Science” just published (May 13, 2011) a fascinating article: Improved Learning in a Large Enrollment Physics Class, Louis Deslauriers, Ellen Schelew, and Carl Wieman Carl is a Physics Noble prize winner, now working in science education. The article is on an experiment they did in physics education. They waited…
A comment from Maureen Bell at HERDSA led to an impromptu list of things teachers once learned: Divide the board into sections Hold the chalk at the horizontal Use the same colours for headings and subheadings each time Underline with a squiggly line rather than a straight line (because nobody can draw a straight line)…
GE331 at Otago University runs a really cool class activity. Write collaboratively in a wiki. (In this case a script for a soap opera) Blog (in character, in german) for a month. [This is an interesting genre]  Shoot the video and put it on YouTube. (Complete with Bloopers) See it here: seifenoper.wikispaces.com/  Fictional Blogging. …