Tag: classroom
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Stop thinking of the LMS as an online classroom
I’ve seen so many criticisms of online teaching, where it’s accused of not being as interactive / lively / engaging as a F2F classroom experience. There are many potential reasons for this experience, but the main one, IMO, is that the person using the LMS doesn’t realise that online teaching and learning is SO much…
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Posted to Diigo 07/14/2012
University lectures are a legacy of our pre-digital past Today’s standard lecture, as a knowledge delivery model, is a legacy of our pre-digital past. We already have decades of research behind us which says that, as far as learning goes, having one person stand up in front of lots of people and talking non-stop is…
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Laptops in class
A few days ago I wrote about employing technology in classrooms and how we need to make sure that it’s appropriate technology and not being used just because we can. I felt at the time that it probably wasn’t a good idea for students to have their own machines in front of them because of…