This blog is a quick (i.e. not comprehensive) introduction to blogging for educators, with hands-on steps for getting started in using MovableType as well as some conjecture on using MT in different educational contexts.
How Computer Games Help Children Learn by David Williamson Shaffer
Epistemic games are computer games that can help players learn to think like engineers, urban planners, journalists, architects, and other innovative professionals, giving them the tools they need to survive in a changing world.
Based on more than a decade of research in technology, game science, and education, epistemic games revolutionize the ongoing debate about the pros and cons of digital learning to show the future of education in the digital age.
If you studied math, science, or engineering at a four-year college in the US, much of what you learned is useless, forgotten, or obsolete. All that money, all that time, all that wasted talent. If all we lost were a few years, no big deal. But the really
Printable Resources * Enquiry/Problem-Based Learning * Deep, surface and strategic approaches to learning * Personal Learning Styles * Life long learning and self-directed learning * Curriculum and Course design * Generic objectives and transferable skills * Small group (including tutorials) & large group teaching * Practicals and Demonstrators / Teaching Assistants * Supervising postgraduates * Flexible learning / flexible delivery: Including teaching with new technologies * Learning journals and logs, Reflective Diaries
D. Díaz, R. Ramírez, and D. Hernández-Leo. IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT); 2015 Jul 06-Jul 09; Hualien, Taiwan.Sl: IEEE, 2015. p. 367-369., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), (2015)
L. Lee. Approaches to algebra: perspectives for research and teaching, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p 102
… it is much of a challenge to demonstrate that functions, modelling, and problem solving are all types of generalizing activities, that algebra and indeed all of mathematics is about generalizing patterns.
p 103
The history of the science of algebra is the story of the growth of a technique for representing of finite patterns.
The notion of the importance of pattern is as old as civilization. Every art is founded on the study of patterns.
Mathematics is the most powerful technique for the understanding of pattern, and for the analysis of the relationships of patterns.(1996)