Robert Paterson: EducationWhy is our system in trouble - what are the emergent new pathways for Learning?(Untitled)- July 31, 2003 collaborative learning and institutional culture. There have been a few interesting posts lately about collaborative learning. Many of them spout the relentlessly cheerful &147;we tried it and it was amazing and I wish more teachers would shift their paradigms because the students love it so much&148; line. (Hmmm. Perhaps my frustrations are already leaking through, eh) Happily, Seb Paquet pointed me to Martin Blanche&146;s post on &147;Obstacles to collaborative learning.&148; (Permalinks are..http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/education/2003/07/31.html#a696 (Untitled)- July 29, 2003 Enabling collaborative learning. Sebastian has found Martin Terre Blanche's wonderful blog. He quotes a good post on obstacles to collaborative learning. Students and lecturers are more familiar with a knowledge-transmission model of education and don't always understand what is expected of us in a more constructionist environment. We have too little information about lecturers' and students' backgrounds, networks and skills - so often we don't realize that there is somebody in the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/education/2003/07/29.html#a689 Learning by Play - What kids look like when they are having fun- July 8, 2003 My daughter Hope is teaching a small class of kids how to cook this week in our cottage. Don't they look great!http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/education/2003/07/07.html#a660 Are we neanderthals How can social software help- July 6, 2003 I wonder - have we become trapped in a type of culture that has turned us into Neanderthals What do I mean by this weird statement I wrote yesterday "Remember that we think that complex language was an adaptation to hunting on the savannah and hence was our start as homo sapiens - the tool maker. Our new ability to learn across tribes and across time, rather than only directly face to face in present time, gave us the ability to adapt to changes in the environment by using culture not...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/education/2003/07/06.html#a658 Not the software but the business model- July 5, 2003 Tim O'Reilly on generating value with commodity software. Tim O'Reilly: "somebody gets a critical mass of customers and data and that becomes their source of value. On that basis, I will predict that -- this is an outrageous prediction -- but eBay will buy Oracle someday. The value will have moved so much to people who are not now seen as software suppliers." .... "Amazon is the furthest along this path, in a lot of ways. Amazon really understands that they are becoming a...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/education/2003/07/05.html#a654 Regular Exercise - A Habit- July 1, 2003 Why is it that I am 53 and have ignored well-intentioned and factual advice for 30 years to take regular exercise I know that it will be good for me. I know that this is not baloney like many diets are. Taking more exercise is unquestionably good for me. For a while, I buckle under the social pressure and try it. I go to the gym, buy a rowing machine. If the barrier was only awareness, I should have taken it up years ago. Why is this important Because our health system will...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/education/2003/07/01.html#a646 |