Posted in learning, learning-journey, pedagogy on Jun 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Second Reflection on Online Pedagogy
Belinda Allan
This was my last subject (along with one other) in my Masters degree, so things were beginning to make sense. I was much better at writing to an academic standard as well as reading faster and more efficiently all the papers required.
Being the end of my Masters, and given the [...]
Posted in learning, learning-journey, teaching, web2.0 on May 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
Graphic from Assembly of the Museums Australia education group (there’s also a paper to go with the map)
Loved this picture when I first saw it and it sums not only social software in the middle, but all of Web 2.0’s offerings. I also like the concept of radical trust as the net and these technologies [...]
Posted in assessment, groupwork, learning-journey, pedagogy on May 12th, 2008 No Comments »
When members can’t take constructive criticisms of their work and see it as criticisms of themselves.
When members aren’t as enthused as each other (including myself) about the piece.
When members make judgments about other members based on age, gender, race or any other factor, and frame their interactions according to those judgments. Of course, especially when [...]
Posted in learning-journey, pedagogy on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Something that I’m beginning to realise as I progress in the “pedagogy in practice” course is that this subject is the icing on the cake. It’s tying together all my previous learning in instruction design, teaching strategies and tactics, teaching approaches and lifelong learning and even the more specific communities of practice and my other [...]
Posted in assessment, learning-journey on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m thinking of relabeling this course for my own benefit to Assessment Principles in Practice. This new title sits better with the aims I have in mind for this course. Beginning with the end in mind these are my thoughts regarding Assessment Principles in Practice’s learning aims.
What do I need to know about assessment that [...]
Posted in learning-journey, pedagogy on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
In the interests of “beginning with the end in mind” these are my thoughts regarding online pedagogy learning aims.
What do I need to know about online pedagogy that I don’t know now?Running a course start to end sounds a little frightening to me still (even at this late stage in my degree). It’s like the [...]
Posted in learning, learning-journey on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
From - http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-schon.htm“Hutchins, in a book first published in 1968, had argued that a ‘learning society’ had become necessary. ‘The two essential facts are… the increasing proportion of free time and the rapidity of change. The latter requires continuous education; the former makes it possible (1970: 130).…
Slavery made this possible – releasing citizens to participate [...]
Posted in learning-journey on Mar 1st, 2008 No Comments »
I’m Bee a masters student almost at the end of the masters journey but a dedicated lifelong learner! I live in Jiaxing, China (1 hour south-west of Shanghai) teaching English, learning Chinese, translating and anything else that seems interesting. I come from an IT background and have a strong desire to bring the wonderful world [...]
