Teachers' Lounge

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"The only thing standing between me and greatness is me." - Woody Allen

Jimmy Atkinson tipped me to his just-published piece at the Online Education Database, Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better. His 77 tips to more effective learning run the gamut from recall techniques to visual aids to self motivation tips and tricks. You may not find every tip useful (perhaps that's why he's thrown 77 at you), but you will surely find more than a few that springboard you to new horizons on your life's journey. Bookmark this one!

Gaming and education

If you think about it, games have an interesting problem. They cost a lot of money to make and they are pretty long and challenging. They can take up to 50 hours to play. But if a company couldn’t get you to learn that game, they’d go broke. They have this classic problem that schools have: How do I get somebody to learn something that is long and difficult and takes a lot of commitment, but get them to learn it well?

Researchers Study Video Gaming Principles that Apply to Education

Promises and problems of working with blogs, wikis, and podcasts

From Pete MacKay at The Teacher List

Podcasts in a Primary School
My friend Daphne Gonzalvez passed on this presentation by John Pearce for the k12online.conference. He tells the story of his journey through developing blogs, wikis and podcasts with his grade 3/4 students. Well worth a look/listen - a long journey but very interesting because it is a familiar road for fellow teachers on the information highway.

I haven't the bloggiest

Most asked question (still!) from fellow teachers? What's a blog?

Suzanne Stefanac, author of the just released book, Dispatches from Blogistan, clues the clueless in a featured interview on the Well.

Oh my!

Some sad news.

(For Riverbend)

"What luck for rulers that men do not think"
-Adolf Hitler

Simple, yet complex simple.

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
-Friedrich Nietzsche