Richard Byrne has updated his free Practical Ed Tech Handbook for 2018. For many years, Richard has created and curated a wealth of teaching resources and made them freely available through his blog Free Technology for Teachers and other online platforms. If I was stranded on a desert island, this would be my go-to source of technology for pedagogy. It’s aimed at school teachers but meh…good pedagogical praxis is universal.
Annotated bibliographies are things of beauty for anyone undertaking scholarly works. The Science of Learning – brought to you by the Deans for Impact, this short fact-filled document provides not only a summary of recent (to 2015) research in cognitive science but also packages it around six key questions all educators will find useful. They even pooh pooh some common misconceptions about how students learn and think, including the oft-cited ‘students have different learning styles’ trope. Should you add a talking head…
There are many resources to help with curriculum design and development, including the implementation of blended learning models. Many involve templates and supporting materials that are transferable to other environments. Learning Designer – this is very cool: an online tool, from the UCL Knowledge Lab in London, that allows you to visualise the relative proportions of learning activities that fall under six learning types identified by Diana Laurillard’s Conversational Framework: Read/Write/Listen (or Acquisition), Inquiry, Practice, Production, Discussion and Collaboration. You can…