February 2011
7 posts
How we spent Valentine's Day
I was one of the students who did not get around to looking at the survey data on McGonigal’s TED Talk, and I was glad to have the chance to go over it and try to draw conclusions. My cohort and I realized that as hosts of a speaker, there are many other questions we would have been more interested in asking and different ways we would have phrased the questions so that the response data...
Talking about texts
Hoffert’s article introduced me to many different ways of orchestrating a book club. I was aware of “we all read the same book,” of course, but even within the thematic approaches there appears to be a lot of variety. I love the idea of thematic book clubs/discussions. While it is great to converse with others who have read the same thing you have, especially with difficult and/or...
It's all about understanding
In class last week it took me awhile to figure out the purpose of the TED Talk and follow-up exercise. I thought at first it was the content: how can we use gaming to help students learn or something like that. I took notes because I found the content rather fascinating, if a little farfetched. I didn’t understand the purpose of the survey, but I answered honestly. I was excited to work with...
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Learning environments
Chapter 6 in How People Learn addressed different types of learning environments, specifically learner-centered, knowledge-centered, community-centered, and assessment-centered. I first thought each of these would be mutually exclusive, as you can really only have one “center,” but the author seems to promote learning environments that prioritize the relationship between the learner and the...
