October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
Freshmen go to school on drinking
Pennsylvania State University trustees passed a resolution requiring all incoming freshmen systemwide to take AlcoholEdu for College, an online education program about alcoholic beverages and their effects on the body. — GoErie.com, PA
Public Demand Prompts University of Minnesota to Make Online Class on Alcohol Use Available to All Parents
With tragic [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
Are flash based Learning Objects dead? They sure are expensive - since 2001 the Teaching & Learning Federation (TLF) has used “AUD$123 million ….. divided by 6300 curriculum items. That’s close to AUD$20,000 for each single (eg, Flash) TLF curriculum item,” observed Stephen Loosley (Member, Victorian Institute of Teaching) when he opened some excellent discussion [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
Technology now dominates every area of our lives and educators need to make sure they are prepared for its inclusion into our schools. This may mean making a break from traditional teaching methods; but there is no denying the inevitability of technology being thrust into curricula around the country. Many teachers may be [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
The debate was already red hot before this video by Professor Daniel T Willingham from the University of Virginia (brought to my attention by Stephen Downes) added fuel to the fire. On the one side are the learning and development romantics, all voodoo and crystals, holding firm to their pseudo-psychological beliefs. On the other, the [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
This was the question that Professor Gilly Salmon asked at her presentation at ALT-C in Leeds yesterday. Now I’m a bit of a fan of Gilly’s work as a pioneer in the field of collaborative online distance learning. She stands out as an academic who’s able to communicate in simple terms to a wide audience, [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
I’m re-examining the work of Nel Noddings, so I’m reading The Challenge to Care in Our Schools, so that’s what is informing this post. On a personal note, It’s exciting to reexamine her work after a few years away from it, especially since her work has been so formative in the way I think about [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
Over the past few years, many administrators have asked me how SLA has such an incredible faculty, and while I think there are many reasons, not the least of which are the colleagues that you get to work with and the edu-blogger network that has made SLA more well-known than the average high school, I [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
[Cross-posted at Leader-Talk.]
This is an extension of some thinking I was doing in this entry — Citizenship, Workforce and the Ethic of Care.
Nel Noddings writes a great deal about the ethic of care — the idea that our relationships with students should be grounded in “receptivity, relatedness, and responsiveness” — and her work has been [...]
October 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
Just have to pass along the wonderful blog post — Teaching Without a Script — by SLA English teacher / Athletic Director / Boys Basketball Coach / Slam Poetry Club Sponsor Matthew Kay. Matt has been asked to take part in the NY Times Online Blog “Lesson Plans,” and his first blog entry shows the [...]
June 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within.
–Leonard Cohen
The model of education from its earliest times was one of mentorship, starting with hunter-gatherers taking their children out on the hunt 100,000 years ago, all the way up to the teaching methods employed at the university [...]
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