Blackboard, a widely used course management platform, also offers students and educators additional convenience and portability through its mobile technology. Users can access their classrooms through their iPhone®, iPod Touch® and Blackberry® devices.
Campuses already using this mobileEdu solution are:
Duke University, Stanford University, Kean University, La Sierra University, Medical College of Georgia, Seton Hall University, Texas A&M University, Texas Christian University, University of California, San Diego, University of San Diego, and the University of Washington.
Most recently Blackboard Launches Mobile Education Platform in Mexico.
Interested? -- http://www.blackboard.com/mobile
...for the moment...
aSalas
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Perception
The 1957 film "12 Angry Men", directed Sidney Lumet and produced by Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose, is an excellent presentation for the study of perception and its influence on communication.
Set mostly is a jury deliberation room, the 12 jurors must decide the fate of a juvenile who was accused of murder. Throughout the film the 12 men display a variety of moods and emotions. They argue, speculate, contemplate, disclose, conspire, reflect, tire and experience personal victory and defeat.
Observation, discussion and examination of the characters and their interactions offer lessons in understanding perception, perceptual constancy, fundamental attribution error, the role of self, and symbolic interactionism.
Even in black and white, this classic still manages to hold students' attention.
...for the moment...
aSalas
Set mostly is a jury deliberation room, the 12 jurors must decide the fate of a juvenile who was accused of murder. Throughout the film the 12 men display a variety of moods and emotions. They argue, speculate, contemplate, disclose, conspire, reflect, tire and experience personal victory and defeat.
Observation, discussion and examination of the characters and their interactions offer lessons in understanding perception, perceptual constancy, fundamental attribution error, the role of self, and symbolic interactionism.
Even in black and white, this classic still manages to hold students' attention.
...for the moment...
aSalas
Sunday, February 7, 2010
New Media
In addition to organizing syllabi, developing lesson plans and assessments, how to incorporate and effectively use tools in the classroom is a question educators ponder routinely. Accoutrements go beyond the use of DVDs, animation, images, Youtube videos, peer review, group work, PowerPoint presentations, discussion boards and the like.
Second language acquisition (SLA) presents additional challenges in that students strive to engage and learn in a different language. Considering language-learning theories of Lev Vygotsky, Noam Chomsky and Stephen Krashen, the level of student interaction contributes to the success of the experience.
For example, Lev Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (ZPD) proposes that social interaction, that can be inferred as a level of immersion, affects how language learning progresses and evolves. Noam Chomsky, whose talks about universal grammar continue to inspire discussion and argument, posits that individuals share a predisposition to language learning that is genetically endowed. Consequently, one could deduce that placed in a non-native language learning situation, learning is inherently possible. Lastly, Stephen Krashen's multi-pronged SLA theory combines naturalistic and classroom activity approaches to learning and acquisition.
Given these concepts, an environment that could offer students all of these provisions could, arguably, positively affect second language learning. Second Life , a 3D virtual environment on the Internet, could be considered for this task. As participants, students would have access to uniquely integrated social and instructional networking opportunities in the second language they could practice as they learn.
An opportunity worth exploring -- n'est-ce pas?
...For the moment...
aSalas
Second language acquisition (SLA) presents additional challenges in that students strive to engage and learn in a different language. Considering language-learning theories of Lev Vygotsky, Noam Chomsky and Stephen Krashen, the level of student interaction contributes to the success of the experience.
For example, Lev Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (ZPD) proposes that social interaction, that can be inferred as a level of immersion, affects how language learning progresses and evolves. Noam Chomsky, whose talks about universal grammar continue to inspire discussion and argument, posits that individuals share a predisposition to language learning that is genetically endowed. Consequently, one could deduce that placed in a non-native language learning situation, learning is inherently possible. Lastly, Stephen Krashen's multi-pronged SLA theory combines naturalistic and classroom activity approaches to learning and acquisition.
Given these concepts, an environment that could offer students all of these provisions could, arguably, positively affect second language learning. Second Life , a 3D virtual environment on the Internet, could be considered for this task. As participants, students would have access to uniquely integrated social and instructional networking opportunities in the second language they could practice as they learn.
An opportunity worth exploring -- n'est-ce pas?
...For the moment...
aSalas
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