Partir des pratiques des étudiants pour construire une formation à la maîtrise de l’information “[...] Qu’est-ce désormais qu’orienter l’usager ? La BU n’est plus un lieu clos sur lui-même, l’unité documentaire est brouillée par le web. Cela requiert davantage d’esprit critique et de participation active de la part des étudiants. L’usage “amateur” des outils du [...]
There is a new book from colleagues in the School of Education here at Sheffield University: Davies, J. and Merchant, G. (2009) Web 2.0 for Schools: (Source: pligg – all) More: continued here
Now that the slower summer months are here I’m taking some time to work on a couple of big projects. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about online tutorials. We have a large student population and a relatively small library, and I’m always looking for ways to extend our instructional efforts. Tutorials covering various research [...]
ED released a study providing further evidence of the tremendous opportunity to use technology to improve teaching and learning. More: continued here
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Secretary Duncan urged states to work with charter school operators to turn around struggling schools. More: continued here
This is another report from the i3 conference taking place in Aberdeen, Scotland at Robert Gordon University (the atrium is pictured here). I am just in a session in which chairs of previous sessions are drawing out some cross cutting themes. Dorothy Williams (the conference chair) was taking lots of notes, and if these get [...]
Still at the i3 conference in Aberdeen, I am listening to a keynote from David Snowden entitled Complexity, coherence, constraint cognition and context. He’s intending to put the slides up as a podcast here. His theme is “Naturalising sense-making” (making sense of the world so we can act in it). He positioned himself as nearer [...]
I may not get my final set of blog postings about the i3 conference up til later today or tomorrow, as I am dashing off after the parallel session I’m in at the moment. Therefore I will alert you to some other impressions of the conference (though for some of them you may need to [...]
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