Crash Course in Learning Theory
This is a very exciting blog that has discussed many of the things we have learned about education but in a new way.I believe that this co-creation of knowledge lends itself very well to:
- New-wave Socratic teaching - Posing questions and letting students answer them through exploration on the net and production of a meaningful summary such as a wikispace or podcast.
- Collaborative tools - Tools such as wikipages (I use wikispace) or writely.com to produce meaningful summaries of their synthesis of knowledge that have been created together.
How do you get started:
1 - Set up a wikispace for your class
2 - Decide a project or chapter that would be a good topic for student exploration.
3 - Spend about 15 minutes covering the basics of wikispaces:
- brackets - making other pages
- hyperlinks to the Net
- hyperlinks within wikispace
- inserting pictures
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