Teaching

As enrollment surges 31%, University of Alabama embraces new technology to engage students, aid academic outcomes and retention. The UA administration discusses in a webinar why they view Tegrity as an investment in the success of their students. Date: October 16, 2007 Time: 11:00am Pacific (2:00pm Eastern) Duration: One hour Sponsors:Tegrity Notes can be naturally handwritten on Tablet PC. Because it enables students to...

Veteran teacher Nancy Flanagan recently asked where are the men in education? She comes to this question with notable credentials: 31 years as K-12 teacher; a Teacher in Residence with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, 1993 Michigan Teacher of the Year, and a Danforth Teacher Leadership Fellow among other accomplishments. ... men are a diminishing force in teaching, a distinct cause for...

Lora shares her fascination with stories people post about how they use Tablet PCs for teaching and learning. I am continually fascinated by what education tools and applications people see as valuable. But my favorite part is hearing stories about once people have learned about something new to them and then start exploring and acting on “what if I do…?”She leads with Christopher...

Christine Alvarado and others offered a thoughtful overview of Tablet PC and Computing Curriculum offerings three years ago. When integrating Tablet PC technologies with other advances in the computing sciences, undergraduate computing educators must re-think what we teach students and how we enable students to learn. We are just beginning to understand how to best take advantage of these new communication and collaboration resources....

tboehme describes how he uses two external 19" monitors with his Tablet PC Thinkpad X61t. He uses the Matrox DualHead2Go to make the connections. That gives him three working monitors with almost independent images at the same time. It appears at the time of his post that this set up has some, limited, potential as a whiteboard for teachers. Thanks for the glimpse, tboehme,...

Steve "Chippy" Paine offers a thoughtful review of Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) that educators may use to identify who uses them and for what purposes. Teachers familiar only with desktops and cell phones will find that Chippy's review offers a glimpse into the vocabulary and reasoning of everyday UMPC users for efficient, ubiquitous communication and learning. Thanks, Chippy. And thanks Warren Crocker for pointing me...

Loren's on a roll again recently with suggestions for Tableteers, UMPCeers, and other mobile PC users, including students and teachers in and out of schools. He notes that search engines can calculate simple math problems. He posted on the 19th a simple demo app, written with Silverlight and a web service, that can take handwritten math equations, recognize them, format the problems sufficiently for...

Here's an excerpt from a manuscript originally intended to assist a parent direct attention to classroom instruction that leads to the most efficient learning of a daughter. This full manuscript describes how a parent may observe classroom teaching in light of instructional options available to the teacher. This excerpt identifies what learning efficiencies mean in terms of teacher choices. I base these comments on...

Wanted: Teachers who know the cold, mechanical precision of instruction as well as how to display human skill and craftsmanship in lessons that yield results transcending conventional student learning rates. One way I've worked with personnel search committees and administrators is by offering a choice between working with someone with a personal-professional identity and other applicants who blend in and follow what others do....

GIST software is designed from the ground up for use in classrooms incorporating the Content Enhancement Routines. Research proves that students learn best when material is presented to them in an organized, understandable manner stressing critical concepts. For more than 20 years, instructors have used the Content Enhancement Routines, based on research done at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning (CRL),...