New podcast: Chinese student’s transition into uni
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 28th, 2009
Check out the latest addition to the LTC podcast series Engaging Students:
Chinese Students’ Transition into University - Liyun Huang
Liyun Huang, a visiting scholar from China, talks about issues and challenges Chinese international students may face when they make their transition into university life in Australian universities.
The talk starts with a comparison of eastern and western [...]
Video games inspire students
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 27th, 2009
From John Moravec at Education Futures:
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Will Wright, the video-game designer responsible for some of the best-selling titles of all time, says that video games are better at inspiring students to learn than actually teaching them.
Serious play
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 24th, 2009
This blog has previously posted on using lego for teaching. In this video, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults - and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age:
I post links to a lot [...]
Tonight on Insight, SBS, 7.30pm: Students at risk
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 21st, 2009
What’s behind the attacks on Indian students? Are the attacks on overseas students racially based?
Watch the preview.
Recent attacks on Indian students in particular has focused attention on the broader experiences of international students who have enrolled in Australian universities, TAFE’s and private colleges. Stories of exploitation, poor accommodation and sub-standard colleges reveal a disturbing [...]
Universities, rites of passage and youth today
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 30th, 2009
Does this statement ring true for you?
The real purpose of universities is not to flatter the tastes of those who arrive there, but to present them with a rite of passage into something better.
How about when it is placed in its context - an article in The American Spectator [...]
Next generation learning
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 25th, 2009
Thanks to Steve Wheeler for the link.
Baby boomers, gen x and gen y
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 24th, 2009
This blog has previously expressed some scepticism about the claims for digital natives, millenials, gen y, the i-gen.
In this podcast and slideshow from the Engaging Students series, LTC’s Margot McNeill gives a run-down on the differences between baby boomers, gen x and gen y and their experiences of learning and teaching.
Note Margot’s words of caution [...]
Shift happens
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 22nd, 2009
Some interesting stats and a bit of fuel for the digital generation sceptics:
More on the Educause challenges for 2009
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 19th, 2009
Back in February, this blog listed the Educause top 5 learning and teaching challenges for 2009:
Creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation
Developing 21st-century literacies (information, digital, and visual) among students and faculty
Reaching and engaging today’s learners
Encouraging faculty adoption and innovation in teaching and learning with IT
Advancing innovation in [...]
Alan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 11th, 2009
Another in the fantastic TED series, here Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways - mathematically and scientifically - that only computers can.
And he makes this sentence simple and understandable: “Reality is a kind of hallucination … a waking dream, and understanding that that is what [...]