Rethink Education Survey

Dear Colleagues, Please consider answering this short survey about the wicked problem of Rethinking Education in our professional context. There are 3 multiple choice questions. It should take you about 2 minutes to answer them. I have crafted this survey for an assignment that is part of my graduate program in educational technology at Michigan StateContinue reading “Rethink Education Survey”

Rethinking Teaching Inforgraph

In the past few weeks I started thinking and researching on Teaching and how we could rethink it to make it cope with demands of this age. Only after chatting with my colleague, Kelvin, my approach to tackling the problem really changed. We were able to bounce off ideas and really look at the problemContinue reading “Rethinking Teaching Inforgraph”

Info Diet in the Internet Era

The internet had helped people for decades to find answers to their endless questions. This massive connectivity helps us to grow as individuals and as educators as it pushes us to help our students explore new horizons, as Henry Jenkins advocates in this video below.   [Henry Jenkins: Media Scholar Henry Jenkins on Participatory CultureContinue reading “Info Diet in the Internet Era”

How can we inspire inquiry-based learning in traditional school systems?

Questioning is a skill that humans start to acquire as soon as they start to talk. As annoying as it can be to adults, critical questioning skills can lead to innovation. In his book, A More Beautiful Question, Berger discusses the importance of questioning, its development stages, and how it leads to breakthrough ideas. AlthoughContinue reading “How can we inspire inquiry-based learning in traditional school systems?”

Educational Games for Students with Working Memory Disorder

Working memory disorder is a challenging problem some students are seriously struggling with. Working Memory (WM) was defined in the literature as “a brain system that provides temporary storage and manipulation of the information necessary for . . . complex cognitive tasks” (Baddeley, 1992, p. 556). Hence a learner with WM Disorder will not onlyContinue reading “Educational Games for Students with Working Memory Disorder”