SJR Teacher/Learners

lecture, it is a quick, easy, efficient, and almost fool-proof way to get information directly from you to your students

isn't really any deep interaction

referred to as the "flipped classroom". I would outsource the delivery of lecture to video

"Walking on Eggshells" is a 24-minute documentary about appropriation, creative influence, re-use and intellectual property in the remix age.

Mobile technology is going to be an unstoppable change agent in education.

Practically every one of our students--rich and poor, wise and less wise--is walking around with a powerful computing device in his or her hand. These students are changing the nature of their education using those devices, whether they realize it or not--and whether we help them or not.

There is a third alternative and one that is becoming increasingly more common and that is the wireless classroom.

That allows teachers to plan their lessons on the assumption that the technology will always be available and will always be working

Again this is an excellent opportunity for teachers to rethink their approach to teaching. How might they promote more student-centred and self-directed learning via personal consumption instead? How might they put the iPads in the hands of learners to promote various forms of collaboration instead?

The initial energy needs to be sustained with pedagogies in the marathon that is teaching and learning.

End the University as We Know It

36 percent of students demonstrated no significant gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning and written communication over four years of college. After only two years of college, that percentage -- 45 -- is even higher.

students aren't studying enough; faculty members aren't demanding enough of students; administrators aren't paying attention to student learning outcomes;