Category:Cognition and Learning - EET. Learning styles – and other made-up stuff « kirstyevidence. Some years ago, when I worked in a university, I underwent training in teaching and learning to improve my lecturing skills. I have to say that I learnt a huge amount from this – and indeed went on to teach pedagogy to others – but the one thing that I found difficult to swallow was the emphasis that our teacher put on learning styles. She explained to us that everyone has a different ‘learning style’ – some were visual learners, some kinaesthetic learners and some auditory – and that to ensure that all students learnt well, we had to encourage learning in all different ways during our lectures.
Now, at the time, I was teaching on an MSc course on Immunology. I had to give, for example, a 1 hour lecture on the molecular structure of a sub-microscopic protein that is found on the surface of one of the cells in the immune system. Teaching through interpretive dance (btw, this picture is REALLY funny if you’re an immunologist – honest) (OK, I promise, no more immunology jokes after this) 100 Science Lectures - Flipped Classroom. Open source, for both the classroom and the self-educator, proves an absolutely swoon-worthy digital ocean of information. Unsurprisingly, the sciences thrive in such a climate, with the Internet positively flooded with panels, lectures, Q&As, talks, complete and incomplete classes, demonstrations, and other conduits through which education flows.
Our 2009 listing featured some of the best around, but it didn’t even scratch the surface of available content. Adding an additional 100 on top of that won’t, either! All the same, though, that doesn’t mean we’ll stop showcasing some great viewing, reading, and listening from the most impassioned researchers! When moving forward, please keep in mind that none of these lectures are to be considered ranked, and many require flipping forward to other videos. Because science and engineering so often build upon and influence one another, understanding their codependent relationship leads to a greater appreciation for and comprehension of both. Mr Robbo – The P.E Geek.
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Grammar Newsletter - English Grammar Newsletter. Why Kids Need Schools to Change. Big Ideas Flickr: Elizabeth Albert The current structure of the school day is obsolete, most would agree. Created during the Industrial Age, the assembly line system we have in place now has little relevance to what we know kids actually need to thrive. Most of us know this, and yet making room for the huge shift in the system that’s necessary has been difficult, if not impossible because of fear of the unknown, says educator Madeline Levine, author of Teach Your Children Well. “People don’t like change, especially in times of great uncertainty,” she said. “People naturally go conservative and buckle down and don’t want to try something new. There are schools that are trying to do things differently, and although on the one hand they’re heralded as having terrific vision, they’re still seen as experimental.”
“I’m astounded at the glacial pace of change in education.” Yet therein lies the paradox. “I’m astounded at the glacial pace of change in education,” she said. PROJECT BASED LEARNING. Horizon Project. Login or Create New Account Member Spotlights RIT Launches Nation’s First Minor in Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture Partner News NMC Partners with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative iTUNES U Ideas that Matter and More High Quality, Free EdTech Content Sparking innovation, learning and creativity. > NMC Horizon Project > NMC Horizon Reports > NMC Horizon Project Navigator > NMC Horizon EdTech Weekly App NMC Horizon Project The NMC Horizon Project charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning, and creative inquiry.
> Serve on a Horizon Project Expert Panel > Submit a Project for Inclusion in a Horizon Report Open Much of the work of the NMC Horizon Project takes place in a wiki where international experts across all different educational sectors openly exchange ideas and engage in insightful discourse. Global The most recent addition to the NMC Horizon Project is a new series of region-specific reports called NMC Technology Outlooks. NMC Horizon Reports › News. Inclusion, Equality, Diversity, Differentiation | Webfolio | Institute for Learning. Guidance on how to improve equality and diversity practices The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) and LSC have jointly published guidance for FE colleges and providers, to help them to self-assess equality and diversity. Both bodies have worked closely with Ofsted and Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK) to develop the guidance, indicating a shared commitment to driving forward standards in self-assessment.
Equality & Diversity Curriculum Audit Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Dyscalculia Podcasts on Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Dyscalculia best practice - by Katherine Hewlett & David Crabtree, AchieveAbility(www.achieveability.org.uk) Under Practitioner links there are useful slides from the research and development phase of AchieveAbility covering various disorders and how they should best be managed. Green, K. (2003). Heaton, P & Mitchell, G (2001). Klein, C et al (2002). Reid, G & Kirk, J (2001). Youtube video on Dyspraxia in the workplace - Equity Challenge Unit UK site. Do Students Really Have Different Learning Styles? Teaching Strategies Lenny Gonzales Learning styles—the notion that each student has a particular mode by which he or she learns best, whether it’s visual, auditory or some other sense—is enormously popular.
It’s also been thoroughly debunked. The scientific research on learning styles is “so weak and unconvincing,” concluded a group of distinguished psychologists in a 2008 review, that it is not possible “to justify incorporating learning-styles assessments into general educational practice.” The “learning style” that teachers and parents should focus on is the universal learning style of the human mind. This doesn’t mean, however, that teachers and parents should present material to be learned in just one fashion.
Called “Academic Music,” the program was designed by San Francisco State education professor Susan Courey and three colleagues. First, students benefit from encountering information in multiple forms. Related Explore: learning styles. Papershow Starter Kit: Amazon.co.uk: Office Products. PAPERSHOW is an annotation tool that allows users to draw on paper with a clever pen and paper system that simultaneously creates electronic versions of the sketch on a local computer. The system is connected to any computer with a small USB dongle which wirelessly links to the PAPERSHOW pen. The pen, in turn is used to write on PAPERSHOW paper which features a dot matrix array and some neat control features to alter how the pen strokes appear on the computer screen.
Whilst only using a single pen type on the paper, the PAPERSHOW electronic functionality allows users to create a reasonable variety of appearances for the pen markings on the screen. There are different pen sizes (three different widths) and different colours, (black, yellow, red, blue, green, white). The tool can also be used to create perfectly straight lines or arrows, rather than hand drawn ones along with squares, rectangles, circles or ovals, each either as an outline or as a colour filled shape.
Creative Innovation. New Pedagogies For The Digital Age. iPad Apps and Bloom’s Taxonomy I felt it was worthwhile to update the Top Post (over 25,000 views) on Langwitches: Bloom’s Taxonomy for iPads I have added links to each app represented on the visual. Remember: Exhibit memory of previously-learned materials by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts and answers. describenamefindnamelisttell Suggested apps: Understand: Demonstrative understanding of facts and ideas by being able to: explaincomparediscusspredicttranslateoutlinerestate Suggested Apps: Apply: Using new knowledge.
Showcompleteuseexamineillustrateclassifysolve Analyze: Examine and break information into parts by identifying motives or causes. Compareexamineexplainidentifycategorizecontrastinvestigate Evaluate: Present and defend opinions by making judgments about information, validity of ideas or quality of work based on a set of criteria justifyassessprioritizerecommendratedecidechoose Suggested Apps Create: planinventcomposedesignconstructimagine Related Bloom's Taxonomy and iPad Apps 21. In "Featured Carousel" 7. 29. Pace and depth of learning — From Good to Outstanding: Helping you to achieve outstanding and creative teaching and learning. When evaluating the quality of teaching in the school, inspectors must consider: “the extent to which the pace and depth of learning are maximised as a result of teachers’ monitoring of learning during lessons and any consequent actions in response to pupils’ feedback” (Ofsted evaluation schedule January 2012) The above reference to ‘Pace and depth’ of learning in the January Ofsted framework, on which this set of posts was originally based , is not included in the latest (September 2012) Handbook for school inspection.
It is mystery (to me anyway) why it was removed, nevertheless I suspect it remains a fundamental part of the judgment process and as I believe that pace and depth of learning are inseparable from progress, I decided to do the post anyway. Pace: When referring to ‘pace’ the main thing to bear in mind is: Pace is not the same as speed! Teachers certainly have a sense of the speed at which learning needs to take place in order to successfully complete a course of learning. New Academic Year: RSA « Cathy Wint Blog | ESOL | Teacher training. Photo by ZhouXuan Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic As a HE in FE teacher at the college I am very fortunate that I am able to bid for remission hours to undertake Research and Scholarly Activity (RSA). This year I hope to be able to bring HE tutors and students together in an exploration of mobile technology.
Description of the Research This project aims to investigate how HE in FE teachers and students can develop a community of practice in relation to exploring the use of emerging technologies for their Continual Professional Development (CPD) and Professional Development Planning (PDP). I first became aware of Lave and Wenger (1991)’s notion of a community of practice when I developed the Action Research Network within SfL. Whatever term is applied here, the characterises of the group I would like to develop include a face to face environment (despite the geographical and work load constraints) in order to be able to share and discuss how the mobile devices are being used.
Update. Show Off Technology – Student Emails. 28 Aug If your students are using technology in your classroom there are many ways to show off their work to visitors. I make sure that every bulletin board in my classroom clearly demonstrates how technology is used by my students everyday. Instead of exit slips to check understanding at the end of a lesson, my students email me what they have learned and any questions they still have. Each iPad in my classroom (this works with PCs too) is set up with the same email account.I post a question or quick task on the board.Students answer the question in an email and send it to me.I print out the emails, write a comment on the bottom, and staple it to my bulletin board.
It is clear to any visitor (our principal, superintendent, maybe even Mayor Bloomberg) that students use technology with ease in my classroom. Tags: bulletin boards, email, iPad education, student work. The eLearning Site. Teacher Educator UK - home. Sketchcasting: A combination of blogging, talking and drawing! <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic.
<div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> Mete Akcaoglu defines “sketchcasting” as: … an attempt to merge the power of blogging with the “high-bandwidth” experience of talking and scribbling at the same time… it’s effectively a podcast with a whiteboard. He’s created the YouTube channel Sketchcaster, and has eight examples posted there to date. He’s posted his sketchcasts over on sketch.basement.org. See the RSA Animate blog, RSA Comment, for even more examples. On this day..
Ofsted, Outstanding Teaching and the iPad. If OFSTED were to walk into a lesson tomorrow they would see the following: Prior to the lesson students would have viewed an 8-10 min screencast introducing the topic. This resource would have been produced and sent via twitter to the students when appropriate.Students would have uploaded work required to Edmodo that is then assessed, annotated and sent back to students again prior to the lesson. The nature of the work is determined by perceived difficulty of the topic. The initial task would be a Socrative quiz to establish understanding for the lesson (AFL) – this often includes one multiple choice and two short answer questions.
With a given problem the students would then have to produce an explanation of the problem on the interactive whiteboard app ExplainEverything - collaboration in groups of 3. Socrative would then be used again to assess where the students are and the lesson would be adjusted accordingly. So what would OFSTED make of this standard lesson? Attitudes to learning. How To Be A Smarter Learner By Using The Method Of Spaced Repetitions. Unlike computer memory which is increasing with time, human memory takes the opposite route. In simple words – we forget. Our ability to retain what we learn is a downward graph not only with age, but also with time that’s counted in days. Consider the fact that it takes us so long to go up the learning curve, but only a few days to go down. As any A-grader student will tell you, there’s no magic memory pill but only repeating what you learn and practicing it at regular intervals. Spaced repetition is a method that can help you plateau out the downward curve of your forgetfulness and help you memorize large amounts of data.
It is an accelerated learning technique. What Is Spaced Repetition? Quite simply we forget what we learn if we don’t revise or repeat it. Hermann Ebbinghaus discovered this. As soon as schedules and tracking time periods comes into the picture, it’s clear that we need to fall back on a computer program (or a web application) to do the job of spaced repetitions for us. What Happens in 60 Seconds on The Internet.