JJames KA Smith has kindly shared his annotation techniques. His first piece of advice is the most important because in frames the rest: annotation is always determined by a telos: I mark up a book differently if Im teaching it vs. writing a review; similarly, my annotation will look different if Im reading the book […]
How-to-learn
tips and helps in learning
Social Sciences Ethics Training online
A free e-course on research ethics. I note it here so that it can be found again. I have in mind some of the preparation for study things we’ve been talking about recently at college. It’s creative commons and the blurb says it’s start-stoppable and has comprehension exercises built in. Social Sciences Ethics Training – […]
Study study-skills online
here are a bunch of mini-modules here for self-study about how to study Skills – OpenLearn – The Open University. Some courses that may be of particular interest to theological and ministerial students folk are these: Essay and Report Writing Skills -helps you develop the skills you need to write effectively for academic purposes. Extending […]
Simplicity lies on the other side of complexity
When I saw this, the ‘maps’ of systems reminded me of the kinds of things that mighht be poduced as a rich picture, mapping a situation for theological reflection. Sometimes, in duscussion our theological reflections can feel like they get mired in detail and ‘not seeing the wood for the trees’. The hope held out […]
Rich Pictures …
I’ve been investigating methods for learning and exploring ‘issues’ and discovered Soft Systems Methodology which incorporates the use of “Rich Pictures”. The idea here is to simply map and symbolise as much as you (singly or plurally) of a situation in order to be able to explore and analyse more fully what is going on. […]
Learning Styles -claims overblown
Perhaps it is no surprise that some independent research shows that the claims for learning styles (or whatever name -there are several) may be too strong in terms of the validity of the styles and their impact on learning. I’m looking at the report at the moment but this summary article (which itself seems to […]
Collective intelligence, women, solving problems
Having facilitated a team-building exercise last week, it’s been interesting to see this bit of research. In some ways it confirms with further data what we already know. On the other hand, by doing so it highlights the importance of enabling groups to work together well in order to help people learn and make better […]
Mind – Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits – NYTimes.com
Helpful article which brings us some tips for study you might otherwise miss. For example: instead of sticking to one study location, simply alternating the room where a person studies improves retention. So does studying distinct but related skills or concepts in one sitting, rather than focusing intensely on a single thing. And the former […]
ITCs in teaching: useful stuff from Denver!
<!– @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } A:link { color: #0000ff } –> See The CU Online Handbook University of Colorado, Denver http://bit.ly/IOUfc There are a number of articles here. I just looked at a handful that looked as if they were likely to be helpful to me […]
Testimony of conversion to online teaching
In this chapter there is a testimony of an American HE teacher’s ‘conversion’ to online teaching and something of the journey she took. Chapter_1.pdf (application/pdf Object). And here is the University of Colorado’s handbook on online teaching, again with a ‘testimonial’ bias.