The Overprotected Kid. A trio of boys tramps along the length of a wooden fence, back and forth, shouting like carnival barkers. “The Land! It opens in half an hour.” Down a path and across a grassy square, 5-year-old Dylan can hear them through the window of his nana’s front room. He tries to figure out what half an hour is and whether he can wait that long. It’s still morning, but someone has already started a fire in the tin drum in the corner, perhaps because it’s late fall and wet-cold, or more likely because the kids here love to start fires. Other than some walls lit up with graffiti, there are no bright colors, or anything else that belongs to the usual playground landscape: no shiny metal slide topped by a red steering wheel or a tic-tac-toe board; no yellow seesaw with a central ballast to make sure no one falls off; no rubber bucket swing for babies.
The Land is an “adventure playground,” although that term is maybe a little too reminiscent of theme parks to capture the vibe. Who' s Who in Human Learning. By Denise Kay, University Of Central Florida Welcome to Who's Who in Human Learning, a Webquest designed to introduce undergraduate and graduate students to theories of human learning. By completing this webquest you will; a) be introduced to a variety of learning theories and/or models of learning, b) be introduced to various theorist who contributed to our understanding of human learning c) identify the contributions that various learning theorist have made to the field of human learning Piaget Vygotsky Thorndike Do you slow down when you drive by an elementary school?
How do you think learning occurs? Even basic ideas about how humans learn can be of great use, whether it is used to understand daily interactions with peers, parents, children or co-workers. Do you think it is important to have well-informed ideas about how learning occurs? By the way, one explanation for why you slow down when you drive by an elementary school is provided in the conclusion.
Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur. Successful%20Tch%20Poster. What%20Students%20Want%20In%20a%20Teaching%20Professor. Watch the Thai Commercial That Has Half the World Sobbing Uncontrollably. Looking for a tear-jerker today? Thai mobile company TrueMove has got you covered with this story of a noodle seller whose generous act toward a young boy with a sick mother brings unexpected rewards 30 years later. With almost 6 million hits in just a few days, the ad is getting lots of press.
The tagline is, "Giving is the best communication. " It's not entirely clear (at least in the ad) how that relates to a mobile company, but frankly, it doesn't need to. Oddly, instead of focusing on the story, a bunch of bloggers have latched onto the ad and are using it to start a flame war with American advertisers about why we can't come up with ads this moving and cinematic. I guess that was a different kind of crying game.
Barnga_instructions. Stanford University and Khan Academy use flipped classroom for medical education. To help medical students progress faster and find their calling in the field, two educators suggest moving content delivery out of the classroom may be the way to bring the students back in. The plan, featured in the October edition of Academic Medicine, comes from Charles G. Prober, senior associate dean of medical education of the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy.
Khan and Prober present a three-step road map: First, identifying a core curriculum with concepts and lessons that can be taught through the kinds of short, focused video clips pioneered by the Khan Academy; then, changing static and poorly attended lectures into interactive sessions where students can practice that curriculum; and finally, letting students explore their passion -- from bioengineering to public health -- early on in their med school careers. The act of posting abbreviated lectures online is not a groundbreaking idea, nor is it a first for medical education.