One of the questions discussed at Learning 2.0 was this: Is knowledge delivered or constructed? Let’s take a look at it.
Delivering knowledge
Traditionally, the task of the educator was to deliver knowledge: teachers took pre-packaged data and dispensed it to learners. Teachers were active, if not dominant (dispeners) while students were passive (receptacles).
Obviously, data can be delivered. Books have done an incredibly good […]
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Is knowledge delivered or constructed?
Published by September 18th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 21 CommentsThe recent learning 2.0 conference included a number of ‘unconference’ sessions - free-form discussion groups that set their own agendas, rather than pre-ordained powerpoint presentations. I had been a bit skeptical about how these might work in practice. I thought they might lack focus. In fact, the sessions worked really well. Instead of just listening, […]
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Robotic Teacher Dilemma: Attack or Instruct
Published by August 13th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 9 CommentsHi everyone,
As users of The Fix know, one of the things we’ve been focusing on over the last while is improving the tools we have to help people practice oral Chinese. We’re all studying Chinese, it helps to have more opportunities to speak it.
With this in mind, we’ve been in touch with a Chinese software […]
Exam Nightmares and the ChinesePod Test Playground
Published by July 23rd, 2007 in Uncategorized. 30 CommentsYou’re not sure how it happened, but you’re back in school. Instead of the honorary doctorate you vaguely remember being promised, you’re confronted with a 40 page exam on post-modern game theory. Being a ChinesePod subscriber, you’re feeling chuffed about the portion of the exam in Chinese, but even so are having trouble focusing […]
ChinesePod and SpanishSense hit Facebook
Published by July 20th, 2007 in General, Innovation, Learning 2.0, News and Uncategorized. 20 CommentsWith Facebook all over the news these days, and VC-backed development teams from Wuxi to Anping scrambling to roll-out Chinese editions of the site, I’m pleased to announce our own little contribution to the social networking frenzy: official ChinesePod and SpanishSense applications for Facebook.
We’ve been lucky enough to have a bunch of brave early-adopters and […]
Lee’s latest comments on m-learning have taken the discussion in a slightly technical direction, and covered some of the current obstacles to a good mobile web experience. It seems like a good opportunity then to explain why we think this is about to change, and to discuss some of the technical choices we’ve made.
The mobile […]
What with us being in China, and you all being scattered around the globe, timezones have presented a bit of an issue for the Practice service. With a bit of flexibility we’ve always been able to schedule sessions, but we knew eventually the service would need to be offered 24 hours a day. We’re happy […]
Hi everyone, Dave here…. A lot of users have asked for better traditional support so I’m happy to announce the beta release of a browser plugin that:
works with Mozilla Firefox (versions 1.5 - 2.x)
replaces simplified characters with traditional ones on the dialogue/expansion/vocabulary pages
adds traditional character support to vocabulary lists/games/etc.
replaces the link to the simplified PDF […]
Since ChinesePod launched in 2005, we have received an enormous amount of product development ideas from the community. We have incorporated a large amount of this feedback into the current service. Today, we are introducing a new section called ‘Labs’ where we all can suggest, discuss and debate new features for ChinesePod.
You can find ChinesePod […]
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