Blogging Your Education- April 24, 2005 about how her students are changing in their expectations and needs from their time in college. They are pushing against the traditional structures, asking to mix the classroom experience with online community and off campus travel, capturing all of it in their Weblogs with the voices of teachers and mentors and loved ones mixed in. I love that image...seriously love it...the reflective, interactive chronicling of learning. The getting it down, capturing the experience if for no other reason...http://2020learning.blogspot.com/2005/04/blogging-your-education.html Teachers are in big trouble- April 9, 2005 I have jokingly written the post "Teachers are in big trouble" in the Random Walk in E-learning blog.I have seen the decline of the social status of teachers - at least in Hong Kong where I have taught for nearly 20 years. In many countries, the education department of universities only attract the least capable students. After graduation, these teachers enter a workplace totally isolated from real world. In the school I taught, 50+ teachers shared one telephone line in the staff room. I...http://2020learning.blogspot.com/2005/04/teachers-are-in-big-trouble.html More on Eide Neurolearning Blog and Learning Styles- April 4, 2005 Response to Bill Gates from Derek's Blog brought up this thread again. A new comment posted by pepper to Eide Neurolearning Blog raised and commented on the practice of assigning time slot for different subjects.Where in the real world do we think exclusively about math, band, history, and art in 90 minute mutually exclusive chunks on Monday, only to think about English, marketing, and physics in equally exclusive chunksThis is "industrial age production line concept" practice puts to the best.http://2020learning.blogspot.com/2005/04/more-on-eide-neurolearning-blog-and.html |