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Teach what you know

Clive on Learning

I've been browsing through a book called Teach what you know by Steve Trautman (Prentice Hall, 2007). It is subtitled 'A practical leader's guide to knowledge transfer using peer mentoring.' I must admit peer mentoring sounded like something fun and new, which is why I bought it.

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Why it's not worth paying peanuts

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In his posting All of the Above - how to cheat Multiple Choice Questions , Donald Clark provides the following quote from a talk given by Professor Dylan Wiliam, Deputy Director of the Institute of Education, gave at the ALT conference in 2007: “The variability at teacher level is about four times the variability at school level.

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D is also for debunking

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Back in 2007 Kevin Lovell brought this work to the attention of the Development Community on Training Zone, under the title of The Holy Grail of Evaluation? " This did not impress Garry Platt : Oh dear, is this piece of nonsense still masquerading as ‘research’?

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Stocking fillers for e-learning enthusiasts

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In 2007 I got to read and report back on a whole range of interesting books, articles and reports.

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Confused of Brighton

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Firstly, I've been doing some more work on the script for The 30-minute masters which, if you remember, aims to teach the essentials of instructional design to subject matter experts in no more than 30 minutes.

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Gadgets, games and gizmos for learning

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I've enjoyed reading Karl Kapp's Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning (Pfeiffer, 2007). Training the workforce of tomorrow with the high schools of today is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year old mainframe. It's been out a few months now, but I just got round to it. It's the wrong tool for the times."

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