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Location: LKL Auditorium, Ground Floor
Further Info: Using Google Apps to Facilitate Dialectical Education in a Teacher's MA Course
Host/Speaker: Yishay Mor
Date and Time:
Wednesday, 09 February 2011, 14:00 - 15:30
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From Action to Abstraction, via Conversation:†
Using Google Apps to Facilitate Dialectical Education in an MA Course
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Session Overview†
In
the last term I have taught a course on "games and learning" as part of
an MA programme for in-service teachers. My pedagogical approach led
students from personal experiences to abstract ideas through on-line and
face-to-face discussions. In search for a technological platform which
would support such an approach, I decided to try Google Apps - combining
a course web site with a discussion list and shared documents. The
rationale for this choice was the flexibility which was afforded by the
platform, allowing me to shape it to my needs. Using this platform, I
was able to provide my students with an intense and rewarding learning
experience.
In
this talk, I will share some fresh experiences from this experiment and
the insights and questions that they raise. We will also have room to
discuss how tutors can adopt and transfer some of the elements to their
own courses.
Seminar Leader
Dr
Yishay Mor is a Teaching Fellow at the Technologies in Education unit,
the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, where he leads the†Digital Cities MA programme in Technology, Leadership, and Education.
He is also an honorary research fellow at the London Knowledge Lab.
Yishay's interests include methodologies for design-based research in
education, the use of social and mobile technologies to foster
collaborative learning, and positioning educational practitioners as
learning designers.
More information about Dr Yishay Mor at†http://www.yishaymor.org
Further Information
This seminar is organised by the Institute of Education's Learning Technologies Unit. Contact the LTU for more information.
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Booking
This seminar is free.
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