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Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teaching
Category: Commentary
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The idea behind ‘flipping the classroom’ is to video your didactic presentations and have the students watch them at home via YouTube or similar. It’s a great idea: research has shown that video leads to greater recall because students can pause, rewind, etc over bits they did not get the first time. What can be…
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This article has been getting a lot of comment in various forums. If you have not read it already, it’s well worth your time. For the last two decades now, the English educational system has been slavishly remodelled along American lines – despite the manifest failure of that country’s school system. Meanwhile the Finns, following…
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We all love ‘inspiring teacher’ stories, and this one‘s a dilly. But see below for my awkward question: [Joni] Mitchell was drawn to art, but “growing up just at the time before arts were included as a part of education… at that time I was kind of a freak.” In seventh grade, she had “one…
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Tell them the answers.
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I think it is. The Open University’s Moodle is often cited as “one of the largest”, but the OU has 250,000 students, as against our over-2,000,000 registered members. The US military has a system that “serves 1.2 million people” which is impressive, but still smaller than Yacapaca. The only candidate I can find for a…
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