Tag Archives: Learning
Punctuated Equilibrium: Life, scientists, students
I’m not an evolutionary biologist so forgive me if I get this wrong. I believe that some evolutionary biologists either currently or at one time believed that evolution progressed with spurts of activity in which certain events caused a higher … Continue reading
Posted in Science Saturday
Tagged conceptual change, evolution, Learning, paradigm shifts
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One Way to Improve Your Teaching
Sometimes I am asked what is the most important part of teaching effectively or what is the one thing that I’d recommend for people to try. Unfortunately, I don’t believe the question can be answered. There is no single thing … Continue reading
Ego and Learning
I was watching a good friend teach recently and they had the students talk in small groups. In one group I noticed that a single student seemed to dominate the conversation. At one point during the small group discussion, another … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom Management, Mistaken Mondays, Relationships
Tagged Classroom Management, ego, Learning, participation, small groups
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Teaching is Design: Cultural Constraints
I’ve written a few posts relating teaching and design (see here, here, here, and here). If teaching is designing, then ideas about design might provide interesting insight into teaching. Last time I wrote about material constraints, but culture and society … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Nature of Learning, Nature of technology, teacher education
Tagged constraints, culture, Design, designthinking, Learning
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Teaching is Design: End User
Once we know the outcomes of our design, we need to consider for whom we design? The best designed products clearly considered the end user in the design process. When a product is designed for the end user, the user … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Learning, Nature of Learning
Tagged Design, education, Learning, learning theory, students, teaching
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Learning to Walk
The following abstract came across my google reader today. What are the insights you’re seeing for learning/teaching in K-16 education? A century of research on the development of walking has examined periodic gait over a straight, uniform path. The current … Continue reading
Why schools don’t change
You must go check out Ira Socol’s most recent post in which he links the slow progression of medicinal practice to educational change. I found myself thinking about Thomas Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions” & paradigm shift. In science, a … Continue reading
Posted in Education Reform
Tagged education reform, Learning, paradigm shift, school change
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Technological evolution, not revolution.
As much as people want to believe in the revolutionary power of technology, technology advance more closely resembles evolution than revolution because new technology is developed in light of previous technologies (McArthur, 2007). Usually, new technologies are simply a recombination … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Nature of Learning, Nature of technology
Tagged Learning, nature of technology, philosophy of technology
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Creation of what?
When we talk about the use of technology in schools we often note how the technology can be leveraged to increase students’ level of thinking. Bloom’s taxonomy placed “creating” (used to be synthesis) near the top of the “thinking pyramid”. … Continue reading
What does flipping miss?
First off, the flipped classroom is not so very new, but then again, not much is. Consider the learning cycle. This “flips” traditional instruction by starting with student exploration, then going into concept development. The problem is in implementation. When … Continue reading
Posted in Education Reform, Reflection, Teacher Actions
Tagged assignments, edreform, flipped classroom, Learning, nature of technology, teaching, technology
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Teaching as Dynamic 