Friday, May 04, 2007
New Thoughts on Learning Contracts
After participating in a new faculty meet-n-greet two days ago, I reflected more on the notion of learning contracts. I think this is a prime method for encouraging self-directed and self-regulated learning in our students. Especially as teachers, students will need to engage in active reflection and life-long learning to improve their professional practice. I think that with learning contracts, we could better facilitate this process and it would be a scaffolding tool for now that would hopefully carry on into their future careers as a teacher. I still believe there needs to be an electronic tool that diagnoses and facilitates this entire idea. I have a paper prepared from my dissertation on this. I also plan to blog about my dissertation and results another day. Perhaps later on this week. For resources, I've been looking at WPI's Teaching with Technology Collaborator's site on Learning Contracts and About.com has some interesting information and links for Learning Contracts as well.
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Hi, I am very happy to read your experience on PIDT. I am also very interested in the story of PIDT. I know that the PIDT 2005 Annual Meeting is a very special meeting since it is its 20 anniversary celebration. Would you like to provide more materials about the PIDT 2005 or the history of the informal organization for me to know more about PIDT? Thank you!
My email address is haige007@yahoo.com.cn
Looking forward to getting your response!
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