The Confessions of a Bibiophile This post was partly inspired by Dan Brown’s “An Open Letter to Educators“. After some days of mulling, my grey cell finally asked itself “When was the last time you recommended a text book to your students?”. The answer is “never”. So how do I provide texts to students, and [...]
Entries from 30 November 2010
Teaching the Machine: Some Half-Baked Thoughts
21 November 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
My Thanks To … My thanks go to Bill Genereux (Twitter: @billgx, web site: http://billgx.edublogs.org/) for prompting me to write this post. The Prompt Bill tweeted “Just watched it again. @mwesch’s Machine is Us/ing Us. I see something new each time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE” which led to a wide-ranging discussion that we both agree has lots of [...]
Learners and Search Engines
8 November 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
My Thanks To … My thanks go to Christopher Dawson (Twitter: @mrdatahs) for highlighting an issue with the way some students are being mis-taught. Background It is one of the responsibilities of a decent society is to equip its members to function effectively in their future lives. Teachers are one group of people that shoulder [...]
