Msg. #0778 Virtually Authentic: Using the Internet to Bring the World to Students
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Engineering Education Research General Engineering, Engineering Science |
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Teaching and Learning Research Center |
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| Description: | "We were in Fort Yates, ND, on the border of South and North Dakota. The program was dealing with grasslands prairie. We had experts talking about prairie, and we were on the prairie, in the open. As we're doing the show we're noticing the wind picking up. And the experts are talking about how sometimes you can have dust storms. All of a sudden I looked up and I see this wall of dust heading towards us. It looked like the movie, Hidalgo, where you see the big wall of dust coming through . . . the tumbleweeds started flying around us. I turned the camera so that you could see the tumbleweeds, and then all of a sudden you could see this wall of dust come through. It was neat for the kids on the other end, 'cause they were living a moment with us, and it was pretty exciting." |
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| Keywords: | distance learning authentic learning instructional technology |
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(i) Engage in life-long learning |
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Rick Reis' Introduction The posting below looks at a very innovative approach to making distance learning more authentic. It is by Michael L. Rodgers and David A. Starrett and is #36 in a series of selected excerpts from the NT&LF newsletter reproduced here as part of our "Shared Mission Partnership." NT&LF has a wealth of information on all aspects of teaching and learning. If you are not already a subscriber, you can check it out at [http://www.ntlf.com/] The on-line edition of the Forum--like the printed version - offers subscribers insight from colleagues eager to share new ways of helping students reach the highest levels of learning. National Teaching and Learning Forum Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 1, December 2006. |
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| Publication Date: | March 2007 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/postings/778.html |
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Copyright 1996-2006. Published by James Rhem & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Reprinted with permission. |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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Tomorrow's Professor
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