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The Purdue study supports findings of a recent spate of research showing learning benefits from testing, including benefits when students get questions wrong. But by comparing testing with other methods, the study goes further.
the results “throw down the gauntlet to those progressive educators, myself included.”
“Educators who embrace seemingly more active approaches, like concept mapping,” he continued, “are challenged to devise outcome measures that can demonstrate the superiority of such constructivist approaches.”
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For the Spring 2009 Digital Ethnography course led by Michael Wesch. This is a compilation of trailers created by students for their Spring 2009 projects. For more information about our project, visit our research hub: http://www.netvibes.com/wesch There you will find links to student blogs, our wiki, our diigo links, notes, and other materials.
Marshall McLuhan called it “the rear-view mirror effect,” noting that “We see
the world through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
We have had our why's, how's, and what's upside-down, focusing
too much on what should be learned, then how, and often
forgetting the why altogether
I like to think that we are not teaching subjects but subjectivities: ways of
approaching, understanding, and interacting with the world.
students quickly realize the importance of
their role as
co-creators of the learning environment and
they begin to take
responsibility for their own
education.
Nothing good will come of these technologies if we do not first confront the
crisis of significance and bring relevance back into education.