Learning with Humour

Learning with Humour.

This TED Talk has several quotable comments but this, of course, is the one that speaks most clearly to me.

Jamie Oliver on the current state of our education system……

It’s impoverishing our spirits and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

12 Ways to Improve your Lectures

 

Tomorrow’s Teaching and Learning

Designing and Delivering Effective Lectures

“College is a place where the professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.”– Mark Twain

“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” – Albert Camus

Lectures are often derided as ineffective, outmoded, and anathema to what we know about cognition, engagement, and student learning. As Woodring and Woodring (2001) note, “it has become trendy to ‘lecture bash,’ to describe colleagues who openly espouse the use of lecture techniques as old fashioned and out of step with educational trends” (109). In educational theory, the research literature is bursting with suggestions on how to “move beyond the lecture” by employing methods that are more active, cooperative, and learner-centered (Bonwell and Eison 1991; Brockbank and McGill 2007; Felder and Brent 2009; Lambert and McCombs 1998).

Entering the Social Media Dungeon

Over the past year I have contemplated starting a Blog several times but it has been pushed down the priority list every time. This fall I enrolled in the Social Media Course as part of my Provincial Instructors Diploma Program at VCC. One of the course requirements is a Blog, so here I am.