untitled Pedagogy Before Technology? Has there ever been a more exciting time to be a teacher? There is certainly more choice and opportunity, with access to tools that were merely an idea a decade ago. Global interconnectivity through technology has transformed the world of work. Offices are paperless; conferences are virtual and information is shared instantly. However, we seem to be embroiled in a period of political meddling, which irrespective of motive, is a distraction and is causing disruption for teachers and students. ‘Pedagogy first’ is of course a truism that you would struggle to find a teacher disagreeing with. Consider terms like ‘flipped learning‘, ‘transformational feedback’ and ‘MOOCs‘. Let’s take ‘flipped learning’ as an example. The pedagogy behind ‘flipped learning’ is that the teacher will tailor a content based resource specific to their learners. We are all learners. Consider the ‘Feedback Loop‘. Reducing the time taken for the ‘Feedback Loop’ is something teachers consider to enhance learning.
untitled untitled 20 Signs You’ve Found Your Passion — ALO It’s often not until someone prompts us to think about the work that we do that we recognise how we truly feel about it. Sometimes, all it takes is the right question to make us look at our job in a whole new light. Today, I ask you this: How would you feel if you were to stay in your line of work forever? If, upon reading that last sentence, you were filled with warm fuzzy feelings – congratulations, you might just have found your passion. Could you relate to any of these? Image Source The Motivated Type & Rifle Paper Co
3 Tips To Caffeinate Teacher and Student Presentations -- THE Journal Presentation 3 Tips To Caffeinate Teacher and Student Presentations An award-winning teacher and author shares her secrets for transforming slide shows into interactive learning experiences. In a seminar I attended, media analyst Tad Simons once estimated that 30 million PowerPoint presentations are given every day. Multiply that by an average of 30 people in each presentation, and you are looking at 90 million people a day who are at best in a daze — at worst dying from boredom. On the education stage, the classic example of the talking-head syndrome is actor Ben Stein as the dorky high school economics teacher in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. A big part of the problem for teachers and presenters in general is that there is a limit to the time humans can just "sit and get" (what deluded teachers have been calling for years "listen and learn"). Yup. Video Breaks Breaks might be used to show illustrative videos.
4 Ways Technology Can Help Empower Teachers And Students All too often, technology is treated as a silver bullet for perceived problems in education. This sometimes leads to knee-jerk investments, using scarce resources to invest in software or hardware without a clear notion of how either might actually empower learning. Instead of having more technology as a goal, we should have more human interaction, personalization, access, and content mastery as the goals, and then think about what tools can get us there. The 18th century Prussians were one of the first societies to think about truly public education—making (relatively) high-quality education available, for free, to most anyone. Horace Mann helped bring a similar model to the U.S. in the mid-1800s, and it provided similar benefits: public education for all. Two hundred years later, there have been improvements, but mainstream schools still rely on this centuries-old Prussian architecture, despite the fact that modern society needs innovation more than compliance.
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