Tag: curriculum design
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Weekly digest 41
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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In Beta podcast – Constructing learning from practice
I’m really excited to share this introduction to a new In Beta podcast series that I’m going to be working on with Ben Ellis, as part of a new module he’s creating. This episode is the first in a series of conversations Ben and I will be having, alongside a group of innovative educators, to…
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In Beta podcast: Assessment and learning
http://inbetaphysio.com/2023/06/29/31-assessment-and-learning/ In this conversation, Ben and I had discuss the assessment process, linking it to broader themes of learning, curriculum design, and student experience. We talk about the centralisation of assessment and explore the tensions between institutional control and the autonomy of teachers. We discuss student satisfaction and the influence of risk aversion in educational…
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‘Thinking about’ vs ‘participating in’ the curriculum
There were some interesting ideas around shifting the learner paradigm to one where they’re participating in the curriculum, rather than merely thinking about it. When students think about the curriculum, the focus tends to be on the content we’ve included (what they’re learning). However, a paradigm shift towards participation might get them thinking more about…
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Tao Le: OER as part of a curricular ecosystem
I enjoyed this presentation by Tao Le, on a system of modular curricular components that can be put together a bit like Lego bricks. I especially liked the presentation because I saw some parallels with my own thoughts about building an open-source, hackable, curriculum. “Humans are built to share” (or something like that). The work…
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Small group teaching
This is the first draft of an articles that published in my Clinical Teacher mobile app. Introduction Small group learning is one of several educational strategies used to promote student learning, as it promotes a student-centred approach in the educational context (as opposed to a teacher-centred approach, in which the teacher determines the objectives, content…
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Developing empathy in clinical education
This post was originally written for the Clinical Teacher iPad app, and can be downloaded there as well. Introduction Empathy is the ability to understand the emotional context of other people and respond to them appropriately. It has been identified as the cornerstone of the clinician-patient relationship and is recognised as one of the most…
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David Hirsh seminar – Longitudinal integrated clerkships
How to build longitudinal Integrated Clerkships to fit context: Practical tools for modern pedagogy (Prof. David Hirsh, Harvard Medical School) Last week I attended a seminar by Prof. David Hirsh from Harvard Medical School, where he discussed the implementation of the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) in their programme. Here are my notes from the seminar.…
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Finding the time
People do not fail in life because they aim too high and miss… (The Principal of Change) “People do not fail in life because they aim too high and miss. They fail in life, because they aim too low and hit.” We often can’t imagine how we’ll ever find the time to make the changes…
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Posted to Diigo 04/12/2011
We Can’t Teach ‘Critical Thinking’ Until We Learn How to Assess It « Educational Technology and Change Journal humans are incapable of imagining something they have never actually experienced this is one of the most important reasons that it is so hard for the teaching of thinking skills to take hold in education Teachers and…