Category: Teaching

Centre for Teaching Excellence Loving to Learn Day: February 15, 2008 Loving to Learn Day is an opportunity for everyone and anyone to share their reflections about their love of learning. First established at the University of Waterloo in 2006, Loving to Learn Day quickly caught on at other institutions such as the University of…

How to Take Notes Like an Alpha-Geek From Tim Ferris (click the link above for his article) Low-Information Diet and Selective Ignorance I take notes like some people take drugs. There is an eight-foot stretch of shelves in my house containing nothing but full notebooks. Some would call this hypergraphia (Dostoevsky was a member of…

Study: 59% Of Teens Create Content Online Study: 59% Of Teens Create Content Online Duncan Riley Think that user generated content is still only the domain of a relatively small few? Well a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that the next generation at least is switched on and producing…

Jim Wilson/The New York Times Ana Homayoun tutoring Robert Gittings, a sixth grader, above, teaching him how to organize his classwork. By ALAN FINDER Published: January 1, 2008   LOS ALTOS, Calif. — “Can we take a look at your backpack?”     Jim Wilson/The New York Times Ms. Homayoun with Chris Picetti, a junior,…

always learning » 20 Project Ideas Inspired by Learning 2.0 We all know that you only get out of a conference what you put in. So, I did my best to make the Learning 2.0 unconference sessions work for me by moderating 2 of the 3 sessions (during the third session I was totally wrapped…