Category Archives: Teaching
Situated Learning in a Computer Lab?
What is Situated Learning? Situated learning is placing your learner in an authentic environment that mimics the thought processes and actions of a real-life task. We do our best to recreate authentic learning environments so our students can easily transfer learning from the discrete tasks taught in class to the real world. But that is [...]
Constructivist teaching in the technology education classroom
What is constructivism? Constructivism is different from objectivism. Objectivist’s teaching techniques involve the idea that all knowledge comes from outside of the individual and that the teacher give all knowledge to the learner; however, a constructivist’s teaching methods involve the idea that all knowledge comes from within the learner, that learners must take information and [...]
Advance Organizers and Schema Organized Memory
Ausubel Assimilation Theory Ausubel’s assimilation theory (1960, 1961, 1968) states that new information is linked to relevant, pre-existing aspects of cognitive structure and both the newly acquired information and the pre-existing structure are modified in the process to form a more highly differentiated cognitive structure. Ausubel promotes the idea that the most important issue influencing [...]
My Role as an Online Instructor
I will be teaching an introduction to educational psychology course this coming fall semester. I have never taught this class before, and as an undergraduate student I never took this class because it didn’t exist (in ancient of days). While I will have two 1-hour classes each week, I will also have an online component. [...]
Teaching Fun XHTML Students
I had lots of fun today teaching some fun men about XHTML and CSS. They did a wonderful job and had good attitudes despite me having them code up a table with 7 rows and 6 columns. However, I was a bit dingy and coded my table backwards. Oops! Way to show my students how [...]
Using Emergent Technologies in Education
WikiBook: Web 2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Web_2.0_and_Emerging_Learning_Technologies http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Web_2.0_and_Emerging_Learning_Technologies/ID_Models What are some current emerging technologies? Neural interface Voice recognition Brain implants for seeing Ear implants Muscle stimulation allowing controlling body physiology and movements Going beyond WIMP Screen interface Eye interface Nanotechnology Bluetooth interfaces Benefits of using emergent technology in education But there are implications when [...]
Design versus Function, Really?
There is still a lot of talk about design versus function when creating a usable website. Jakob Nielsen has long stood for the opinion that the Web should be function only. His website is an appalling visual of his theories. Where’s the fun? Is is all about function? You might be able to tell by [...]
Teaching my lovely Word level 2 students
What they think of Word 2007 They like and love Word. The interface is quite intuitive. There is more functionality. They love how you can customize everything, such as, save templates, building blocks (like headers and footers), and styles. “The blog thing seems pretty cool.” Amber My students These students are so enjoyable, and they [...]
Hiccups when teaching Final Cut Pro today
Today was a bit of a different day. I woke up, got ready to go to work, and then began teaching my Final Cut Pro class — Day two. I was already about a chapter behind. Around 10:40, the power went out. This happened to have been during our classes morning break and I was [...]
Sarah’s Wet Cats
Here are the pictures of web cats from the Rippin’ Kittens blog. My student Sarah tried to show these during class last Wednesday, but the blog with the pictures would not load. Here you go guys!
