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Vahid Masrour

Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 2 views

harvardmagazine.com/...twilight-of-the-lecture

Education ICT4E

shared by Vahid Masrour on 17 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • shift from “teaching” to “helping students learn.”
  • ctive learning overthrows the “transfer of information” model of instruction, which casts the student as a dry sponge who passively absorbs facts and ideas from a teacher
  • rethink the nature of the college course
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  • Websites and laptops have been around for years now, but we haven’t fully thought through how to integrate them with teaching so as to conceive of courses differently
  • ask my students to read my lecture notes before class, and then tell me what questions they have [ordinarily, using the course’s website], and when we meet, we discuss those questions.
Vahid Masrour

Project Fun Way: When Project Learning and Technology Meet | Edutopia - 1 views

www.edutopia.org/earning-technology-integration

education project learning technology

shared by Vahid Masrour on 05 Apr 10 - Cached
  • These days, King Middle School receives so many requests from educators and policy makers to tour and learn about its program that the school has developed a visitors' workshop and charges a registration fee.
  • a small window of time to transform the school's culture
  • he decided on the first step toward building the trust and teamwork he would need to succeed. He would take a core group of five teachers on an Outward Bound course.
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  • the hallways are animated with small clusters of kids sitting outside their classrooms, quietly working on group projects.
  • The project couldn't have been done without the laptops and Internet connection.
  • But the Web is different; it's everyman's encyclopedia. "I gave them specific questions to look up," says MacLean, noting that she had already searched to make sure the answers were there and were understandable and accurate. "They could open their laptops and get it right then, and I would move on to the next activity."
  • When coupled with professional development, the one-to-one laptop program demonstrably improves student learning. But the amount of instruction that teachers receive is also lopsidedlopsided. The state offers webinars and a training staff, but not all schools make use of them.
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