Teaching Y12 TOK is a great challenge for me this year – it seems to be a course with no definites – only questions (goes well with this web site then…). One great resource I’ve just come across is TOK Cast.
It has been put together by a TOK teacher in order to help his students but makes engaging listening and an alternative for me to text books to get me head around this subject. The site also has a list of useful links.
I’ve just finished reading this rather lengthy, but engaging read by Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat. I have always enjoyed his writing – when living in the middle east, his ‘From Beirut to Jerusalem’ help explain the what I was seeing in the local culture. It even, to some degree, inspired me to take a trip to Jerusalem in 2004.
Friedman’s writing style is easy to read and peppered with examples that help you follow the development of his argument. I’ve listed a few things that I’ve taken about education.
The right stuff: education
Skills for the new middle:
The last session I went to was a chat by a guy from NIST about his use of Prezi. I’d heard of this presentation tool before but it was useful to get a first hand demo of the product.
Prezi – The Zooming Presentation Editor
Embedded video must be .flv files.
Take care with rotations = motion sickness!
Effective for time lines
So it was now time to present what our group had worked on over the last few sessions:
The aim was to provide a student guide to different digital products. We’ll see if it is useful.
Some other resources:
Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game
I have had a go with using 2nd life in the classroom but with not much success. Hogs a lot of bandwidth and students have to install a client to run it. So I was interested to hear what Bill (3d Environment Project Examples | LearningWilds ) from NIS had to say. He uses a locally hosted application and shared some good ideas.
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