Alice Programming

Best Websites for Teaching and Learning: Media Sharing

Masher
Are you a little hesitant to create videos? Masher makes it’s easy. You can “mix, mash, and share” video clips, audio files, and photos into polished movies. Students own content as well as media from the BBC Motion Gallery and Rip Curl free for the mashing, and can then be shared on social media sites or via email.

Inquiry based computer science teaching

I came across an interesting article on teaching computer science through inquiry just like any other science subject.

by Computing Education Blog

The second page of the National Science Education Standards highlights the importance of inquiry:

Inquiry is central to science learning. When engaging in inquiry, students describe objects and events, ask questions, construct explanations, test those explanations against current scientific knowledge, and communicate their ideas to others. They identify their assumptions, use critical and logical thinking, and consider alternative explanations. In this way, students actively develop their understanding of science by combining scientific knowledge with reasoning and thinking skills.

 

http://computinged.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/teaching-computer-science-through-inquiry/

How is educational paradigms changing?

I bumped into this video while looking for educational innovations and it gives very interesting perspectives for us teachers,  parents and policy makers to think about!!

What’s wrong with Lecturing?

In this video, Physics professor at Harvard, Professor Eric Mazur talks about his experience as a physics lecturer and how he changed his teaching from lecture to more student centered approach. Professor Mazur  will show how he has adjusted his approach to teaching and how it has improved my students’ performance significantly.




Designing a Research Instrument: Survey

Effective design and implementation of a research instrument such as a survey is considered both challenging and crucial part of any research. Several books and articles were written to guide the process. Such materials provide support for both novice and more experience researchers by providing them with a number of best practices and guidelines. This is one way to show how crucial research instruments such as survey design is for good research where by we will be able to measure what we expect to measure. Thus findings from research studies can be more useful for our practices in the real world beyond the research settings.

As a doctoral student in the learning sciences and technology, I am interested in both research and development. I believe that our research findings will be able to change the way we do things in the educational environments. Research helps us innovate and enhance our work as educators. We find great many possibilities as well as great many challenges when conducting research in education especially research involving students and teachers and the learning environments.