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POPSteachers A total fabrication; Pedagogy is an art that is taken up voluntarily. All are scaled from poor to masterful. Bottom Line.
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POPSWriting in the Digital Age This is a guest post by Alex Reid for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Alex is an Associate Professor of English and Professional Writing at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. His research focuses on issues of rhetoric, composition, and pedagogy in media networks and emerging media technologies. His recent book, The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition (Parlor Press, 2007), received honorable mention for the W. Ross Winterowd Award for best book in composition theory in 2007.
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POPSProblem-based learning (PBL) in a biochemistry course Hal White of the University of Delaware (a major center for developing PBL strategies) gives an informal introduction to his style of using current and classic research to develop the "problems" that his students will tackle in the classroom.
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POPSTreading Dangerous Ground
"Or does the religious left have to mobilize much as the religious right has? On the one hand, I feel that these efforts are vital to counter a noxious breed of conservatism that is trying to change the face of American liberty. On the other, I worry that by emphasizing the faith based nature of our morality, the religious left is effectively doing exactly the same thing we are opposed to the religious right doing -- that is we are trying to impose a morality based on religious precepts. Does the fact that the morality is more open, more tolerant, more permissive, and more accepting of other's rights to freedom of conscience excuse the fact that it is, in fact, imposing our morality on others? In the long run, I'd rather see that than the imposition of the religious right's morality. Clearly, the imposition of a progressive or liberal religious morality is a lesser evil than sitting back and allowing the religious right to go unopposed. Another issue I worry about is that the curren
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POPSJISC eLearning More a handy aide memoire for me than a share, I suppose, but someone else might find it useful
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POPSUK educator decries domination of education by management-oriented language An Oxford professor examines the gradual takeover of all policy writing on education by the language of business management: "efficiency," "providers," "audits," "performance indicators," etc. This kind of thinking, he says, has gradually obscured any legitimate answer to the question of what education is really supposed to accomplish.
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POPSThe challenge for teachers of technology The author draws a good analogy between lessons learned from driving-- the limitations of memorizing routes vs. getting lost and discovering the lay of the land--and lessons learned from teaching. He discusses "the value of education founded in general principles, rather than a rote memorization of steps to accomplish specific goals."
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POPSPedagogical agents, virtual environments Thought this might interest some CoP3D peops. Not sure about whether one should clipmark a google search result, really, but the linked doc is a pdf which definately doesn't like being clipped.
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POPSCriminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America
More of the main article - my grandmother, an Irish immigrant, teenage mother and battered woman in pre-New Deal patriarchal America; my mother, a mixed-race child surrendered to foster care and survivor of abuse who tried for many years to escape her childhood torture until one day the struggle became too great; and finally me, a daughter raised by a poor single mother who lived "one paycheck away from homelessness" until finally there was no longer a paycheck to keep us housed. A daughter whose duty it was to keep my family alive by any means necessary. A daughter who was home-schooled in the School of Hard Knocks. But this is not a rant about what I didn't have (typical school-system education, traditional family structure, material wealth). I will forever be grateful to my mother for giving me the best life she could, for giving me strength, intuition, art, her trust and, above all, the intellectual means to understand my situation and develop a pedagogy of poverty.
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