Thursday, February 12, 2015

PAPERLESS: Do You Provide Content For Students or Draw It From Them?

[PAPERLESS:] Do You Provide Content For Students or Draw It From Them?
... socially-constructed knowledge as opposed to paper-led facts.
... emergent intelligence & linguistic awareness as opposed to expense, bored scribbles and static scripts.
... emotional/social intelligence, self-expression and the story of language.
... everyday interaction as opposed to gluts of paper blocking the flow of humanistic linguistics.
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3) What are the pedagogical reasons for running a paperless classroom?The advantage is primarily that it switches the focus of the course from providing content for the students to drawing the content from them. Classes became primarily about the students talking about their experiences and interests.
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5) What was the most fundamental insight you gained?Consistency of approach is the most powerful tool in education. No one activity, no matter how engaging, will lead to learning. It is the consistent implementation of an approach in all classes and by all teachers that makes a progamme successful.

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