Archive for the ‘Learning (general)’ Category

The book Classroom Assessment Issues and Practices raises some important issues surrounding assessment.

Deep and meaningful learning takes place in authentic settings. When it is too dangerous or expensive to allow learners to experience real settings, simulations are the answer. They don't have to be computer-based simulations - it can be achieved by well-designed role-play. On a related note, it can be argued that demonstrating "good practice" is […]

Me Posted on 14 May 2005 10:08 PM Last night I uploaded newer files via FTP for IntMath and they appeared correctly in the FTP program as having been uploaded. But there was no change to the files when requesting them with a browser. I then used File Manager in cPanel with some success - […]

The Digital Future 2004 (no longer available) from University of Southern California is an interesting read. It gives an overview of current trends in the development of the Internet. A brief summary: [Comments in square brackets are mine] Internet usage continues to rise and displace television watching [the Internet requires some brain use, TV does […]

This is a very interesting development from MIT. It's a project to provide $100 laptop computers to school children in developing countries as an attempt to close the digital divide. (Update: the CNN.com link of Apr 4, 2005 is no longer available.) Some thoughts: There will be huge pressure from the Micro$ofts and Dells of […]

Let's make e-learning more about communication between learners and less about posting of content, so we can achieve an on-line presence which is equal to, or even better than, a classroom context. Most people need a teacher to guide them through their learning, and a classroom context to give structure to that learning. That is, […]

A lot of what passes for 'e-learning' is really a dumping ground for content (most often PowerPoint slides - ugh.) Learning should be as authentic as possible, with students learning by solving interesting and appropriately challenging problems. This applies whether it is via e-learning or in a classroom. Bized of the UK, a "service for […]

I'm fascinated by PHP at the moment. It is a programming language that was developed only in the last few years as an open-source concept. The acronym 'PHP' originally stood for Personal Home Page and it was developed byRasmus Lerdof as a short add-on to HTML for simple form processing. It has grown rapidly and […]

This is a review of a talk given by the CEO of the Singapore startup ASKnLearn.

"Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" by John Gray was an amusing, if somewhat repetitive read. His take is that men by nature are solitary, problem solving creatures, while women are great communicators who would rather talk at length about problems rather than going straight for a solution. Certainly I could relate to […]