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Sunday, March 14th, 2010

DRAFT National Educational Technology Plan 2010 tags: technology, plan, EDUC642D Europa Film Treasures, the treasures from European Film Archives tags: film, archives, media, languagelearning My French Easel: Creative Exercises for Artists tags: creative, EDUC642D StatusNet | Open Source microblogging service tags: microblogging, opensource, twitter Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Chris’ Weekly Links (weekly)

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching Evidenceforthesuperiorityofguidedinstructionisexplainedinthecontextofourknowledge ofhumancognitivearchitecture,expert–novice differences,andcognitiveload.Althoughun- guidedorminimallyguidedinstructionalapproachesareverypopularandintuitivelyappeal- ing,thepointismadethattheseapproachesignoreboththestructuresthatconstitutehuman cognitivearchitectureandevidencefromempiricalstudiesoverthepasthalf-centurythatcon- sistentlyindicatethatminimallyguidedinstructionislesseffectiveandlessefficientthanin- structionalapproachesthatplaceastrongemphasisonguidanceofthestudentlearningpro- cess.Theadvantageofguidancebeginstorecedeonlywhenlearnershavesufficientlyhigh priorknowledgetoprovide“internal”guidance.Recentdevelopmentsininstructionalresearch andinstructionaldesignmodelsthatsupportguidanceduringinstructionarebrieflydescribed. tags: constructivism, research, document, cognitivescience Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE tags: pln, lms Free Technology for […]

Chris’ Weekly Links (weekly)

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Protestsongs.de – Audio-CD und Begleitmaterial tags: deutsch, music, politics the Awesome Highlighter >> Highlight text on web pages tags: highlight, EDUC642D, socialbookmarking GoodQuestions at Cornell tags: clickers, mathematics Alpheios Texts | Alpheios tags: latin, greek, languagelearning Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Chris’ Weekly Links (weekly)

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Guest Post: Sign me up! Event registration with GoogleDocs and Calendar « LibraryTechTalk tags: googleapps Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art tags: art, history, EDUC642D Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Chris’ Weekly Links (weekly)

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Ecamm Network: Call Recorder for Skype – Automatically Record Skype Calls On Your Mac tags: skype, mac, recording Some Essays – Digital Athena tags: poetry, technology Poet and the Computer – Digital Athena tags: poetry, technology ‘The Class’ DU innovation Class Technology in the Classroom — a funny “The Office” spoof. tags: EDUC642D, technology, instructionaltechnology […]



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