The perceived test result differences between gender is probably due to culture.
- The study tested American and Taiwanese students, and the gender difference among Taiwanese students was not significant.
Interactive teaching and engagement improves test scores.
- However, not all engagement is useful or helpful. For example, showing students physics demonstrations may have an adverse impact as students may remember the demonstration using the wrong understanding of the principles. Hence, when you show students something, be very aware of what they are taking away from what you are demonstrating.
Students like teachers to be clear.
Confusion is a good sign.
- It shows that the students are trying to make sense of what is being taught.
I wonder how this affects technical education (the supposedly more science, math and computing subjects) for girls.
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Given that I teach tuition to 2 girls, this is interesting. I'm still thinking about how to incorporate this.
The thing about teaching is that there is no best way. Much really depends on the student. Need to adapt to who you are working with.
ReplyDeleteEveryday, I wonder about how we can integrate IT for education and healthcare, when they are so dependent on human factors.
ReplyDeleteAny first findings?
http://www.theteamie.com/ - Funny, I heard from one of your students that they pitched. Sounds quite like JFDI Academy.
Teamie is more like IVLE++. Very hard to do JFDI Academy as a general platform.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ai-class.com/
ReplyDeleteHmm.. are you allowed to do something like this?
Stanford's free AI class.
Me? But seriously, I'm insane, but not THAT insane. 50 students is already a lot of work. I really think that this is not a real class but some secret AI experiment.
ReplyDeleteThat's an insight (secret AI experiment) that I never thought of. Interesting, can't wait for the results of the experiment.
ReplyDeleteI dun believe in these sorts of mass classes.
ReplyDeleteTeaching is the business of people. Cannot fully automate.