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Chris Hall

Education Research Report: Number Line Is Learned, Not Innate Human Intuition - 0 views

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    Tape measures. Rulers. Graphs. The gas gauge in your car, and the icon on your favorite digital device showing battery power. The number line and its cousins -- notations that map numbers onto space and often represent magnitude -- are everywhere. Most adults in industrialized societies are so fluent at using the concept, we hardly think about it. We don't stop to wonder: Is it "natural"? Is it cultural?
Chris Hall

Times Higher Education - Next-gen PhDs fail to find Web 2.0's 'on-switch' - 0 views

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    It is counter-intuitive in the extreme, but young researchers are failing to make use of so-called "emergent technology", such as Web 2.0 tools, to support their work.
Chris Hall

Wikipedia should be 'better integrated' into teaching | News | Times Higher Education - 0 views

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    ""It's true that a lot of undergrads don't visit physical libraries, but as counter-intuitive as it sounds, we have found that making students do Wikipedia-based assignments is a great way to get students back into the library, looking for sources that they can't find online,""
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