October 2009
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You know your students are progressing when they...
Teacher: Do you celebrate Halloween?
Student: No, my wife celebrates, I just take part.
Teacher: How do you take part without celebrating?
Student: I do the activities but I don’t enjoy them.
Class:
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WatchExtracurricular Activity - One of our Chinese students shows us a new dance he has created.
How does an efl student learn to create a dance in a 3d world? (All the resources and instructions are in English)
Gee can explain:
Gee video via @grahamstanley
WatchHalloween at Languagelab.com
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“The class includes three Europeans, a Korean, two Saudi women, an Israeli...”
– Find More to Say in a Virtual World - The Guardian Weekly
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James Paul Gee on assessment, games, professional...
Video from Edutopia
Key points:
Education systems that reward people that can learn facts but not solve problems are on their last legs.
Next: Education systems that teach people to solve problems, do it collaboratively, work in a group where the group is smarter than its smartest member, innovate with the tools you’ve learned and not just look for standard solutions to problems.
Computer...
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50 Must-Listen-to Lectures for Tech Lovers
Culture
In these lectures, you’ll learn about the culture of technology, and how technology affects culture.
Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures: Find out how literary criticism and cultural history have accommodated and embraced contemporary media from this lecture. [MIT]
Privacy Under Pressure: Privacy Under Pressure explores the stream of recorded data created in everyday lives. [Oxford]
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WatchVideo Interview: Howard Rheingold who coined the term Virtual communities in 1987 Key points:
Virtual communities and relationships were real even in 1987
Virtual relationships result in relationships in the physical world.
It is always important to think critically about technology.
Communities in the physical world are important but should not be idealised.
The strength of...
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Ask a silly question - class dialogue
Teacher: Is this art?
Student: Of course it is, we're in an art museum!
Class:
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“in, say, World of Warcraft you have to do calculations for crucial strikes and...”
– from the Guardian