Archive for June, 2010
Responsibility for learning
Ed lists 10 ways to encourage students to take responsibility for their learning. Great points but I think I have one more:
11. Moderate, don’t lecture
Seems like a very obvious one, but is actually quite hard to achieve. As a teacher you have to change your role from Mr (or Ms)-Know-It-All to a moderator of learning experiences. This of course needs courage and enormous flexibility on the teachers part. But it will make your classes more interesting as well as more student focussed.
More cold water…
As the school year is coming to an end, it is time to evaluate what time and energy I have spent on my Moodle install.
All in all, I think that testing Moodle in one of my classes was a positive experience for both me and my students. They’ve acquired technological knowledge, had fun while learning English and did more of their homework than before. 
All valid reasons to broaden the experiment to further classes next year!
