Tradition vs New Techniques EDU 6982 week 2

The ways in which we educate our children go back through thousands of years. Culture and tradition play large parts. Change may occur from new research or an authority that instigates it. If we are open to embracing new idea’s without discarding what has worked well in the past and what is important to the [...]

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Week 1 EDU 6982 Ownership in learning

This week I learned about developing interest and ownership in learning by allowing students to participate in choosing some aspects of their lesson. Our assignment was to develop our own research project and work our way thought learning about educational inquiry by doing research on a topic that interests us. We participated in creating a [...]

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Libraries – EDU 6982 week 3

When I used to think of libraries I would think of a room or building with floor to ceiling shelves of books. I would think of the card catalogue with its magical and mystifying series of numbers and letters and the Librarian with her skirt, bifocals and oxfords always there to help. I would think [...]

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What I learned… EDU 6120 journal entry 10/09/2009

What I learned … Reflective learning encourages you to think about what you are learning. My first week in school I learned that educational issues and learning are in the news almost every day, and that many issues are the same as they were nearly 100 years ago. I learned from C.S. Lewis 1 that [...]

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