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Nik Peachey

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 10 Teacher Development Task for Web 2.0 Tools - 17 views

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shared by Nik Peachey on 30 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Nik Peachey on 30 Nov 09
     
    I created a number of tasks for teachers which I hope will help develop their ability to use technology and to evaluate and create materials using web based tools. I've decide now to share those tasks so anyone who wants to use them to train other teachers or to develop their own skills can take advantage of and make good use of them.
Claudio Fleury

Global English and Language Change - Macmillan Dictionary Blog - 2 views

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shared by Claudio Fleury on 13 Apr 11 - Cached
  • We’re often told that teachers “deliver” courses or particular “units” of work. But I’m a teacher: if I’d wanted to deliver units I’d have got a job as an IKEA driver.
  • The metaphor of knowledge as a package encodes a particular view of education which suggests that ideas can be neatly boxed up, wrapped in parcel tape and despatched to a student who will then accept the delivery
  • to student that doesn’t allow for any unpicking or discussion of the actual ideas themselves or questioning of how they’re formulated but is all about sending a pre-packaged idea from A to B. Once the unit has been delivered, it can be ticked off on the list and the next unit keenly awaited.
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  • t’s a model of transmission from teache
  • Young people are no longer students but clients or customers. Schools and colleges become client-facing organisations with customer charters.
  • these metaphors change the way we behave and can lead to creeping social change, away from the interests of people and towards the interests of capital
impalasue

College students' use of Kindle DX points to e-reader's role in academia - University o... - 3 views

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shared by impalasue on 21 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • “Most e-readers were designed for leisure reading – think romance novels on the beach,” said co-author Charlotte Lee, a UW assistant professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering. “We found that reading is just a small part of what students are doing. And when we realize how dynamic and complicated a process this is, it kind of redefines what it means to design an e-reader.”
  • The Kindle DX was more likely to replace students’ paper-based reading than their computer-based reading.
  • With paper, three quarters of students marked up texts as they read. This included highlighting key passages, underlining, drawing pictures and writing notes in margins.
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  • A drawback of the Kindle DX was the difficulty of switching between reading techniques, such as skimming an article’s illustrations or references just before reading the complete text. Students frequently made such switches as they read course material. The digital text also disrupted a technique called cognitive mapping, in which readers used physical cues such as the location on the page and the position in the book to go back and find a section of text or even to help retain and recall the information they had read.
  • “E-readers are not where they need to be in order to support academic reading,” Lee concludes. But asked when e-readers will reach that point, she predicts: “It’s going to be sooner than we think.”
  • impalasue on 21 Jul 11
     
    This discusses the effect of e-readers on cognitive mapping and other reading techniques.
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