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Started Aug 21
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As an educationalist, I have often wondered what is more important? ‘what’ students should learn or ‘how’ they learn. Basics needs to be learned, there is no question about it. This is taught in the school and colleges. In addition, we need to teach…
Education of today is validated after an exam, and most exams expect students to have the ability to retain matter taught to them and reproduce the same. Is this method right? This is a question which has been asked by many educationalists and more…
I would really like to set up some kind of forum or format to lead my students, ESL, through some type of pathway to learn about the 2.0 world. I was wondering if something simple has already been set up somewhere that would allow kids to visit site…
Thank you for the post and link Mr.Mark
Thanks for the link Mark. Good thing that you've shared us some informative sites that will be greatly helpful to us especially in educational field. Well nowadays, we cannot afford to take our children into expensive tutorial centers to enhance the…
As an educationalist, I have often wondered what is more important? ‘what’ students should learn or ‘how’ they learn. Basics needs to be learned, there is no question about it. This is taught in the school and colleges. In addition, we need to teach…
There are so many technology advances in learning these days. As a teacher, I need to work on understanding the latest technologies and using it for my classes. I have started experimenting using methods like electronic flashcards and collaborative…
As an educationalist, I have often wondered what is more important? ‘what’ students should learn or ‘how’ they learn. Basics needs to be learned, there is no question about it. This is taught in the school and colleges. In addition, we need to teach…
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- At 6:56pm on September 20, 2009,
Mark Cruthers said… - Hi Mark,
With your interest in Education Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Here’s a public class recording you might find of interest.
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The new means is Collaborative learning!
As an educationalist, I have often wondered what is more important? ‘what’ students should learn or ‘how’ they learn. Basics needs to be learned, there is no question about it. This is taught in the school and colleges. In addition, we need to teach the student the process of learning also. The Chinese proverb, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." is very apt in explaining this. We need to help our students to develop an effective l… Continue
Posted on November 14, 2009 at 12:00am —
Educating yourself to hone your memory skills
Education of today is validated after an exam, and most exams expect students to have the ability to retain matter taught to them and reproduce the same. Is this method right? This is a question which has been asked by many educationalists and more importantly, till the time the answer is determined, we need to ensure that every student has one method through which this exam can be conquered. Studies have shown, 48 hours after a st… Continue
Posted on September 29, 2009 at 3:28am — 1 Comment
Effective online learning
As an educationalist, I have often wondered what is more important? ‘what’ students should learn or ‘how’ they learn. Basics needs to be learned, there is no question about it. This is taught in the school and colleges. In addition, we need to teach the student the process of learning also. The chinese proverb, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." is very apt in explaining this. We need to help our students to develop an effective l… Continue
Posted on August 21, 2009 at 2:30am — 4 Comments
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Welcome to the community for those using Ning to power their educational social network. Also be sure to check out Classroom 2.0 for general discussions of Web 2.0 in the classroom.
Please introduce yourself in the "Introductions" forum post. And to see a list of Ning networks being used in education (or to add yourself!), please visit Social Networks in Education.
And have fun!
Please introduce yourself in the "Introductions" forum post. And to see a list of Ning networks being used in education (or to add yourself!), please visit Social Networks in Education.
And have fun!
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