Americ Azevedo had 500 students in his Introduction to Computers course at the University of California, Berkeley. Despite that, his teaching philosophy embodies the principles of the Socratic method.
International workshop on Alternatives in Education took place last autumn in Amsterdam.Organized by Waag Institute, Pedagogical Faultline conference is meant for advanced people form educational field. Three main subject was discussed: Extra - institutional Pedagogy, New Sources of Knowledge and Social Knowledge and Professional Practice.
Lately, I've started incorporating YouTube into my Engineering 110 class. This is the first message out to the students. The system allow comments, which is really good to have.
"Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning." -- Martin Hiedegger
Technology changes educational formats. When writing was invented, education changed too. We no longer had to rely solely upon our memories, as we could transfix some things onto parchment, clay, and so on. Printing, blackboards, radio, television, and now the internet all changed the way that we lectured and broadcasted knowledge.