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Collaborating On Writing, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, William Phillips
Collaborating On Writing, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, William Phillips
Hal Blythe
Here’s a guide to how “collabo-writing” can boost your productivity while sharpening your skills (and subjugating your ego).
Nullilfying The Barbay Effect: Connecting With Your Students, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Nullilfying The Barbay Effect: Connecting With Your Students, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Hal Blythe
Of course reaching students has always involved more than logistics. They always live in a newer world than those of their teachers, and speaking their language in order to wed the valuable past with the hip present remains an ongoing challenge. Barbay Effect? It’s a reference to the movie “Back to School” (1986) starring Rodney Dangerfield.
Collaborating On Writing, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, William Phillips
Collaborating On Writing, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, William Phillips
Charlie Sweet
Here’s a guide to how “collabo-writing” can boost your productivity while sharpening your skills (and subjugating your ego).
Global Learning Through Partnered Inquiry, Rebecca Hovey
Global Learning Through Partnered Inquiry, Rebecca Hovey
Rebecca Hovey
The emergence of Global Learning associated with the internationalization of U.S. higher education signals a convergence of international/global studies and international education with the potential to dramatically innovate and transform the academy. Over the past decade the original aim of international education to foster intercultural understanding has become linked with the aims of international studies to enhance our knowledge of the world, and in particular, the ways in which new knowledge is created through non-western epistemologies and cultural perspectives. This paper seeks to situate the emerging discourse and initiatives around global learning in an understanding of the transformation potential of …
Going Graphic: Understanding What Graphic Novels Are -- And Aren't -- Can Help Teachers Make The Best Use Of This Literary Form, James Carter
James B Carter
Best practice information for considering graphic novels in the k-12 classroom
The Ethnographic Experience: Experiential Learning Via Ethnographic Practice, Rebecca Hovey
The Ethnographic Experience: Experiential Learning Via Ethnographic Practice, Rebecca Hovey
Rebecca Hovey
Ethnography and experiential learning share assumptions on the primacy of everyday lived experience for learning culture. This presentation offers perspectives on ethnography as pedagogy for cultural learning through demonstration of ethnographic inquiry, discussion of pre-departure preparation for field work, and faculty reflections on students’ experiential learning.
What Is Effective Mathematics Teaching? International Educators' Judgements Of Mathematics Lessons From The Timss 1999 Video Study., Karen Givvin, Jennifer Jacobs, Hilary Hollingsworth, James Hiebert
What Is Effective Mathematics Teaching? International Educators' Judgements Of Mathematics Lessons From The Timss 1999 Video Study., Karen Givvin, Jennifer Jacobs, Hilary Hollingsworth, James Hiebert
Dr Hilary Hollingsworth
It has been well documented that classroom mathematics teaching differs across countries (Clarke et al., 2006a; Givvin et al., 2005; Hiebert et al., 2003a, 2003b; LeTendre et al., 2001; Leung, 1995; Stigler & Hiebert, 1999). Much less is known about whether leading educators in different countries differ in their views about what kinds of teaching should be occurring. Do the differences in classroom practices across countries mirror differences in experts’ views or do the differences exist in spite of shared views among experts? The goal of this chapter is to address this question.
Technological Barriers To Learning: Designing Hybrid Pedagogy To Minimise Cognitive Load And Maximise Understanding, Mark Bahr, Nan Bahr
Technological Barriers To Learning: Designing Hybrid Pedagogy To Minimise Cognitive Load And Maximise Understanding, Mark Bahr, Nan Bahr
Mark Bahr
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) provide great promise for the future of education. In the Asia-Pacific region, many nations have started working towards the comprehensive development of infrastructure to enable the development of strong networked educational systems. In Queensland there have been significant initiatives in the past decade to support the integration of technology in classrooms and to set the conditions for the enhancement of teaching and learning with technology. One of the great challenges is to develop our classrooms to make the most of these technologies for the benefit of student learning. Recent research and theory into cognitive load, …
Nullilfying The Barbay Effect: Connecting With Your Students, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Nullilfying The Barbay Effect: Connecting With Your Students, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Charlie Sweet
Of course reaching students has always involved more than logistics. They always live in a newer world than those of their teachers, and speaking their language in order to wed the valuable past with the hip present remains an ongoing challenge. Barbay Effect? It’s a reference to the movie “Back to School” (1986) starring Rodney Dangerfield.