Films and ICT
Image: ‘Movie set before the fifties‘ http://www.flickr.com/photos/7820413@N07/2295776255 How do we best learn? I asked this question to myself, my family and my peers (all in all just...
View ArticleBlogging & Belonging
Image: ‘Blogging Readiness‘ www.flickr.com/photos/58428285@N00/267060150 Dave Huffaker is correct, a blog is just another form of a journal, albeit a digital one. Many students are...
View ArticleMissed Opportunity
Image: ‘podcast set up‘ www.flickr.com/photos/44457602@N00/1416318363 Podcasting can have some very interesting possibilities for students. During my first practicum I had to teach radio media to my...
View ArticleLost!!!
Image: ‘Worry‘ http://www.flickr.com/photos/95572727@N00/177496023 Have you ever lost all your work that you were doing on the computer? Everyone has and everyone has felt that same sense of dread...
View ArticleListen to your students!
Image: ‘Loch Duich from Eilean Donan‘ www.flickr.com/photos/36521966221@N01/46787125 Sometimes the only light when studying seems to be off in a faraway place that is completely inaccessible yet...
View ArticleFacilitating Learning
Before using ICT in the classroom the teacher should always ask, how is this going to facilitate learning within the given subject area? If the answer is that the learning can be still as meaningful...
View ArticleIs what I am saying really that important?
Image: ‘And I Saw Your Hand With a+Loose+Grip+on+a+Very+Tight+Ship‘ www.flickr.com/photos/51035555243@N01/85441961 The study of English can become very introspective for students as commonly (if the...
View ArticleChild Power or Teacher Power?
Within his speech Seymour Papert raises some very interesting points for discussion but none more so than his idea of the school as a production line. Papert argues that schools represent a production...
View ArticleReaction to Mac’s blog ‘lack of resources in public schools’
I completely understand where Mac is coming from on this. Whilst I was on my first prac I did not even have a working overhead projector let alone any ICT equipment. This could lead to a very major...
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