saw this post shared on fb this morning:
这里边所描述的现象其实如果我们有关注的话，是一点也不新鲜的。换句话说是已存在多时的。 just to quote some words:
“…包括教师在内的一般国人，仍持有这样轻视和不以为然的学习态度，令人费解，更令人担忧…我真切地希望时间还站在我们这一边”
着眼这些现象，我们在各自不同的岗位能做些什么、应该做些什么？ #timeNotOnOurSide #未为晚也
learning theories for teachers
thanks to si hui for pinging me on variation theory, and i chanced upon this piece of gem created by professors at HKU:
it’s many hours of reading and hard work to produce this piece of excellent quick reference for teachers. extending this idea, we could perhaps create something similar for SLA/CL teachers, bringing together learning sciences and SLA works and making it accessible to our CL teachers (:
learning abt TPACK
ps msged me to say that teachers in the school will be learning abt TPACK tmr (thus replacing our original session to discuss AfL). he wanted to design some post-learning activities in edmodo. i suggested asking teachers to post on “我觉得TPACK…”, and if they needed reference, he could refer teachers to read the Chinese article we have written 1+ year back. alternatively, go back to the original paper: Mishra, P., & Koehler, M. J. (2006). Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A framework for teacher knowledge. Teachers College Record, 108(6), 1017-1054.
hope the teachers have a good time “downloading” contents from the MKOs. 学习愉快 (:
flipped learning and language learning
翻转课堂一词流行好一阵了，孰不知翻转学习是其“衍进版”的概念。这两者有何不同？翻转学习又和华文、语文教学的关系是什么？这一篇东西其实是写来作引起讨论之用的。所以内容上还存在许多可进一步探讨、深究的地方 (:
created this piece of writing for the purpose of facilitating internal discussion. it’s not a fully polished piece of writing in the academic sense, especially from the theoretical perspectives of SLA. but well, the discussions on Feb 22 morning was good (but could be better) i thought (:
so here‘s the piece for your reading pleasure. 一共8页，中英文各4页:
testing fb auto publish
installed the plugin to allow auto publishing of new post to fb. let’s see if it works (:
