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Last week A List Apart released the results of the Web Design Survey (that some of my class actually took part in): The attached report shares everything we learned. We offer it freely to this community that has given us so much. For the curious, we also provide an “anonymized” version of the raw data. It contains . . . → Read More: Working and learning in web development In our particular Web Design course, we have lots of learners who attend full-time, a handful who attend two-days per week (depending on their availability), a mum of two who can only attend one day per week and others whose attendance is unpredictable for health and/or family reasons. Some learners start with excellent technical skills, others . . . → Read More: Tip 5: Gradually hand over control of learning In August this year, there’s an event being run by the Australian Web Industry Professionals Association and New Zealands Webstock event called FullCodePress: It’s a geek Olympics! Web teams take each other on to build a complete website for a non-profit organisation in 24 hours. No excuses, no extensions, no budget overruns. Wow… what a learning opportunity! Something . . . → Read More: 3 Hour Full Code Press Unless you’re teaching 4-unit Physics to a same-gender class in a pre-millenniallist sixth-day Baptist school, you’re guaranteed to have a bunch of very very different learners, each with very different background knowledge, different learning styles, social skills, time-management skills, life situations, cultural backgrounds etc. One of the hardest lessons I’m learning as a new teacher . . . → Read More: Teaching tip 2: Act on the needs of your learners What advice would you give to a new teacher working in a technology-related area? Maybe you’re a student who’s experienced the good and the bad? Or a teacher who’s experience has refined some tried-and-true “methods of instruction”? What advice would you give to a new teacher? Since starting out in education half-a-decade ago (sounds longer than 4 . . . → Read More: Teacher tip 1: Model learning not teaching |
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