Yishay Mor
2004-04-16 10:43:13 UTC
Hi,
I've been discussing the issue of guidance materials with several
people. There are several aspects we need to address:
- In order to improve and disseminate our activity sequences, we need to
share the lessons we've learnt from our teaching experiences.
- A constructionist teaching style requires that the teacher have a
wider view of the subject matter, so that he / she can reap the fruit of
unexpected student discoveries.
- We have contractual obligations for dissemination and development of
on-line guidance materials.
The last item is the least of our worries: at this stage we only have to
show a prototype, and we practically have it. Still, if we can address
the other two, and as a side effect get a better response to our
contractual obligations - why not?
IMHO, the web report system is as good as any other option for sharing
guidance materials. Documents can be authored in Word, then cut & pasted
into the system, links to the actual activity materials are easy to
handle, TT objects and other media can be seamlessly embedded - in
short, all the features that make it a good tool for student interaction
are valid for us as well.
The only problem is that guidance materials should be separated from
student reports. This is not to say that they should be hidden from
students. Personally, I believe in transparency. Its just that its a
separate genre, created for a separate mode of work, and mixing the two
will harm the usability of both.
The bottom line is that I suggest we add a new "type" of report called
"Guidance", alongside the existing "Regular report", "tool", "template"
and "tutorial". This type will not show up on the main tabs. Only when I
go into a topic group I will see a link to "guidance" next to the
existing links to "home", "members", "reports" and "tools". (by the way,
shouldn't there be a link to "templates" as well?)
All this, of course, doesn't get us off the hook for writing the
guidance materials, it just makes it easier to find them.
comments?
- Yishay
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I've been discussing the issue of guidance materials with several
people. There are several aspects we need to address:
- In order to improve and disseminate our activity sequences, we need to
share the lessons we've learnt from our teaching experiences.
- A constructionist teaching style requires that the teacher have a
wider view of the subject matter, so that he / she can reap the fruit of
unexpected student discoveries.
- We have contractual obligations for dissemination and development of
on-line guidance materials.
The last item is the least of our worries: at this stage we only have to
show a prototype, and we practically have it. Still, if we can address
the other two, and as a side effect get a better response to our
contractual obligations - why not?
IMHO, the web report system is as good as any other option for sharing
guidance materials. Documents can be authored in Word, then cut & pasted
into the system, links to the actual activity materials are easy to
handle, TT objects and other media can be seamlessly embedded - in
short, all the features that make it a good tool for student interaction
are valid for us as well.
The only problem is that guidance materials should be separated from
student reports. This is not to say that they should be hidden from
students. Personally, I believe in transparency. Its just that its a
separate genre, created for a separate mode of work, and mixing the two
will harm the usability of both.
The bottom line is that I suggest we add a new "type" of report called
"Guidance", alongside the existing "Regular report", "tool", "template"
and "tutorial". This type will not show up on the main tabs. Only when I
go into a topic group I will see a link to "guidance" next to the
existing links to "home", "members", "reports" and "tools". (by the way,
shouldn't there be a link to "templates" as well?)
All this, of course, doesn't get us off the hook for writing the
guidance materials, it just makes it easier to find them.
comments?
- Yishay
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Yishay Mor
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***@ioe.ac.uk Ph +44(0)20 7612 6963 F +44(0)20 7612 6964
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