Since I have moved out of law teaching I will no longer be actively updating this blog, although I will leave the content there including the creative commons Talking Legal Literacies resources.
The good news is that I am now in the wider world of learning innovation and have a new blog aburdly titled Thus Spake Bacon http://spakebacon.blogspot.com.au/ which continues the journey.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Is lecture capture the worst educational technology?
An excellent discussion of lecture capture technology and how it is killing the last bit of credibility that the lecture has as a method of delivery.
http://www.masmithers.com/2011/03/11/is-lecture-capture-the-worst-educational-technology/
http://www.masmithers.com/2011/03/11/is-lecture-capture-the-worst-educational-technology/
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Laying textbooks to rest
Has the time come to abandon the idea of the textbook? Is this a redundant technology which is holding education back? As someone who has written textbooks, I do see the appeal in moving beyond the textbook mindset.
http://tomwhitby.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/we-dont-need-no-stinkn-textbooks-beyondthetextbook/
http://tomwhitby.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/we-dont-need-no-stinkn-textbooks-beyondthetextbook/
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Getting over IRAC
Image from the Infra Red Array Camera - no, not that IRAC |
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The Trouble with Trads
Y Kuniyoshi, from Flickr CC |
1) Many Instructors Teach to a Certain Percantile of the Class
It is impossible to pitch material to everyone, half are lost the others are bored senseless
2) Students Frequently Do Not Receive Immediate Feedback Crucial to the Learning Process
Waiting to test or be assessed means that bad habits get ingrained and assumptions can compound.
3) In All but the Smallest Classes, the Student's Knowledge State is a Black Box to the Instructor
What is going on out there in all those little learning worlds?
4) Degrees Favor Time Spent in A Classroom over Demonstration of Competency
Its the old factory approach to learning. This does go some way to prepare students for a life of work which is also based on time spent being the meat in the room, but that's hardly a good thing.
5) There is Great Inefficiency in Creating Instruction within Higher Education
Every institution spends a great deal of time and energy creating pretty much the same coursework and activities. We like to think that as great teachers our resources and activities are vastly superior to what everyone else is doing, but how true is this, really?
They go on to suggest some ways in which flexible delivery can help with these problems. A worthwhile read in any case, but the list of 5 problems create a very neat and identifiable agenda for change.
1) Strader R and Thille C (2012) 'The Open Learning Initiative: Enacting Instruction Online', in Oblinger D G (ed) Game Changers: Education and IT, Educause
Labels:
delivery modes,
flexible,
IT,
traditional delivery
Monday, June 4, 2012
I learnt something today? Slides on reflective practice
Reflective learning is becoming a big deal at the moment, which is not surprising given some of the different contexts in which we have to understand what learners do. Below is a link to some prezi slides I did for a faculty seminar on reflective learning, which hopefully spark some ideas.
Prezi on Reflective Learning
Prezi on Reflective Learning
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