Rethinking the digital future. How To Future-Proof Your Education. Why You Should Use Clickers In Your Classroom 5.49K Views 0 Likes If you were a professor giving instruction in a lecture hall, could you measure learning of the whole class at only 30 seconds? Probably not. Classroom clickers definitely have their advantages, especially in large classrooms. Classroom clickers can help to increase classroom participation they offer a convenient way to give both students and teachers feedback. Comment développer les compétences transversales ? Il est intéressant de faire le point sur la structure de notre formation.
Actuellement, nous cherchons à développer des compétences transversales, regroupées sous 2 chapitres : s’ouvrir aux autres et apprendre à apprendre. Comment structurer une formation pour intégrer ces compétences ? Voici notre réponse sous forme d’un modèle centrés sur ‘les apprenants’. Depuis un moment, nous cherchons à faire évoluer notre formation afin de développer chez nos étudiants les compétences transversales dont ils auront besoin dans leur cursus professionnel. Dit comme ça, c’est un noble objectif ! 1 – Quelles compétences développer ? Une première piste part du constat que nous formons des étudiants à des métiers qui n’existent pas encore. Par ailleurs, on peut chercher du côté de l’entreprise quelles sont les compétences qui sont le plus recherchées. Developing Critical and Creative Thinking Skills with Students. Blogging for Teachers. Flipping the High School Classroom - Learning With Technology. We're working on it.
You can say that we're thinking outside the box, we are exploring possibilities, or that we just want to do something different. But really, what we're hoping to do is transform our approach to education by introducing the flipped classroom. For further understanding, also check out The Flipped Class: Myth vs. Reality. If you look at that text link above (go ahead), it's obvious the effect it can have.
But there's more to it than that. We now are approaching a time when we have to consider the new high school and how we'll continue on this path. Let's consider costs. And let's consider size. Individuality and responsibility are the main components to the model. Education à l'information. Unlocking Literacy with iPad. Literacy and Essential Skills: Why Digital Literacy is Crucial. The Guardian recently published an article called “No place in class for digital illiterates“.
The article talks about how children who lack technology literacy skills are getting left behind. Writer Gavin Dudeney talks about changing definitions of literacy that now include “digital literacy” or the ability to use the Internet and interact with digital texts. As I was writing The Need For Increased Integration of Technology and Digital Skills in the Literacy Field in Canada I found research that suggests that Canada’s 9 Literacy and Essential Skills may be just the beginning.
One of the 9 Essential Skills is “Computer Use”. Some researchers are suggesting that this term is too narrow. People need to know how to search for everyday information such as bus schedules, tax information and other important information that is part of every day living. As an educator, I worry about such approaches.
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Continue Reading The School Day of the Future is DESIGNED. Student Engagement for Learning. The Myth of Learning Styles. By Cedar Riener and Daniel Willingham There is no credible evidence that learning styles exist.
While we will elaborate on this assertion, it is important to counteract the real harm that may be done by equivocating on the matter. In what follows, we will begin by defining “learning styles”; then we will address the claims made by those who believe that they exist, in the process acknowledging what we consider the valid claims of learning-styles theorists. But in separating the wheat from the pseudoscientific chaff in learning-styles theory, we will make clear that the wheat is contained in other educational approaches as well. A belief in learning styles is not necessary to incorporating useful knowledge about learning into one's teaching.
What is a Learning Style? The claim at the center of learning-styles theory is this: Different students have different modes of learning, and their learning could be improved by matching one's teaching with that preferred learning mode. Resources 1.