Tag Archives: learning style

learning cycle

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

Just thought I would get this down while I remember. I was intrigued to hear the phrase “Kolb cycle” being used last week when an instructor, aged 19, was discussing problem solving methods with my group of 11 year olds … Continue reading →

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Learning without frontiers

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

I have been meaning to share this. It is a recent talk by Sir Ken Robinson that was attended by two colleagues of mine. Eloquent and addictively watchable (in my opinion). Listen for his reference to Michael Gove. These are … Continue reading →

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Re: Lessons Learned

Posted on December 18, 2010 by

I would have to agree with you Shirley (and Ian). At first I thought that the poetry that I used in my past reflections were just that; reflections. I think because there were emotions attached, deeply felt emotions, that the … Continue reading →

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It’s good to chalk

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

Having spent the majority of the week battling with my choice of research topic flipping from window to window trying to make sense of it all I discovered something. Garr Reynolds refers to it as going analogue. It felt good … Continue reading →

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Distracted

Posted on October 6, 2010 by

In my quest for understanding regarding the review process I stumbled across a paper by David Boud  & Falchikov ( Aligning assessment with long term learning – 2006). It sums up the 3 elements of HE assessment based on input … Continue reading →

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