Archive for October, 2008
Don’t Vote……Not!
Unfortunately I am not allowed to vote in the US. But just as many others I wish I could, since during the past weeks and months the whole world (passively) took part in the ‘08 presidential election campaign. There’s no doubt that voting IS important. I just found this video on youtube and thought that [...]
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Tags: Fun Stuff, politics
Adding A Little Spice To It.
I just followed my teacher’s advice and added a little spice to my blog. Hope you enjoy it. I do.
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“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” (Thomas Carruthers)
These are the opening words of this week’s Virtual Session on the VCT. Following this well known quote, three different
Learning Theories
are introduced:
Behaviorism
This learning principle is based on B.F. Skinner’s idea of operant conditioning, where a response to a certain stimulus is reinforced (Pavlov’s dogs serve [...]
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Tags: principles, school, skills, students, tasks, teachers, teaching, theories
After having studied for 5 semesters I thought I would know my way around university. I’m not talking about the physical part of knowing one’s way, I mean the “knowing how things work”. I’ve been kicked out of seminars, I waited a year and a half for a Schein, I’ve attended seminars which where then [...]
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Tags: University's Believe It or Not
The Dumbest Generation – revised
Right after I had written my post on Bauerlein’s provocative interview/book, I read the post, Mr Sperl wrote about our first session. And it got me started to think about several other points behind Bauerlein’s topics. I was then when I realized that he did not only talk about my future students’ generation, but about [...]
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Tags: books, generation conflict, school, students, tasks, teachers, teaching
Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University, published his book The Dumbest Generation – How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (or: Don`t Trust Anyone Under 30) in 2007. He argues that today’s teenagers are too distracted by the new media, such as social networking pages (facebook.com, myspace.com), cell phones, [...]
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Hello world!
This is me – Marina.
I am a student at the University of Marburg (Germany) and start this blog for a course called “New Media in the Foreign Language Classroom”.
Right now I am not quite sure where this will take me or if I am or will be a successful blogger, but why not give it [...]
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