Tag: teaching
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Harry and the H-Quotient
Scene: we find ourselves in the nondescript office of Brunt Stickler, Head Teacher at Mokita High School. Stickler is tending to a virtual Zen garden on his tablet (the real desktop version made too much mess when he left a window open on a particularly windy day) by way of a distraction from the latest…
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Programming can be fun…
This is my attempt at a circuit and code to meet the requirements of the CTF3001 Fundamentals of Programming assignment. I really enjoyed the challenge of making and coding this project and hopefully the students will too. I particularly enjoyed the fairly open assignment brief which left room for creativity. I also had more fun…
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Programming and Comfort Zones
I can still vividly remember my first lecture as an undergraduate computing student. Monday morning. 9 o’clock. Programming 1A. C++. Within the first five minutes we’re being talked to about data types. I can remember some dazed expressions and confused discussions at the end of the lecture. Not to mention the confused discussions 12 months…
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Why should teachers design learning?
I have the feeling that I’ve posted about something similar before. Just some general thoughts and questions about learning design (small ‘l’ small ‘d’).
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Capturing the worst of teaching
“You don’t have to be in a classroom to have a bad learning experience, you can access one from anywhere on your iPhone!”
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Modelling the impact of planned interventions
Time for a brain splurge about one thread from a thought provoking meeting with MWJ earlier today. I’ll sum Mark’s idea up as “what if you could reasonably accurately model the impact of a series of planned interventions on a simulated classroom?” and hope I didn’t miss the plot completely.
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Tolerance of the learning curve
Having read David’s post about Dwarf Fortress (I keep wanting to call it Gnome Fortress for some reason) I had a “quick” play. Admittedly my interest in computer games peaked when I owned a SNES (a D-pad and six buttons really should be enough for anything) and since then my tolerance of computer game complexity…
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