Posts Tagged ‘school’
Disappointed Students.
Since I was not able to take part in the fieldtrip to Steinmühle, my task was/is to interview a student (grade 5-13) and get some information about his or her experiences with and thought about the use of new media at school.
The interview was very interesting and contained many different thoughts, which I will present [...]
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Tags: generation conflict, Internet, school, skills, students, tasks, teachers
The tagline quoted above refers to the international project “Science Across the World” (SATW), which caught my attention when searching for a project that combines both of my subjects – English and Biology – and of course – new media.
What?
Science across the World is an internet platform that enables stundents from all over the world [...]
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Tags: Biology, school, students, tasks, teachers, teaching
In this week’s class we worked through the online-session’s practical by developing different posters in groups. Our blogging task was then to create an entry about one of these posters.
I chose the second task since it seemed necessary to me to somehow support the old fashioned way of teaching through “Drill and Practice” a little [...]
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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
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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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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Tags: books, generation conflict, school, students, tasks, teachers, teaching
