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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Returning to my first-love calling
The past 15 months have been life-changing ones for me. In that time I have returned to my first vocation, science education (after first taking a 25 year detour through other career paths!). In 1985 I set off to Wits University in Johannesburg with a teacher’s bursary. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The People Piece: Passion and Curiosity
Earlier this month, Mark wrote a post called Webmaker 2013: Product + Community, and we’ve seen a slew of posts that talk about the evolution of Webmaker from the product perspective, so I thought I would write a little about the people piece.…
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Ron Fredericks writes: My wife, son, and I thought it would be fun to share our family video produced here in LectureMaker’s studio. As co-founders, we wish you all a great holiday season and great New Year.
The Photo
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Co-founders of LectureMaker video studio
The video was produced by taking a field trip to Christmas in the Park where we took a background photo.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Change 11 SRL-MOOC study: initial findings
As you will remember the Caledonian Academy conducted some research during the recent Change11 MOOC run by George Siemens, Stephen Downes and Dave Cormier. The study generated a lot of data, which has been sitting on my desk for some months now.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Khan and Papert: Transformational Computers vs. Transformational Computing
In doing some MOOC reading I again got into the comments section to find a difference of opinion, this time on Khan Academy, a content delivery system many xMOOCs herald as inspiration for their wares. I evoked Seymour Papert’s 1991 book The Children’s Machine, specifically his kitchen math discussion, in an attempt to look at why a lecture-based mathematics instruction often doesn’t translate into understanding math for application in life.…
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Back in July I posted about dealing with goals with my learners. Today I’m going to share how we have assessed the process with this student in question.
She is an adult learner who takes her English classes very enthusiastically and we both like the process of learning together.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Current State of Online Learning: the Pregnancy Analogy
Take 2:
Have you ever been pregnant? Didn’t it seem as though nearly every other woman of childbearing age was pregnant too? Amazing.
Ever enrolled in a MOOC? Everyone with an interest in education (students and teachers alike) seems to be doing one.
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If you live in Australia and read or watch the news there isn’t much chance you missed the breaking news last week that Australia’s Education System is a disaster. In fact you wouldn’t be mocked for thinking that it might be end of education with words like lacklustre, disappointing, flat line, doubt, disaster. …
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I came across a great blog by Mark Sample, a literature and new media professor at George Mason University, looking at scaffolding, MOOCs, and MOOC pedagogy. I thought Dr. Sample’s argument was spot-on about the problems of attaching training wheels to coursework, but had trouble with his association with that as scaffolding, which I look at from Vygotsky or Bandura as an integral part of the student-teacher relationship, and is one of if not the most important function of a teacher. …
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