Matching Pedagogy and Technology (or ‘beware of dog’ or ‘the great divide’)

by Andy SaltarelliInstructional TechnologyPosted on No Comments

Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching recently highlighted an excellent POD article by Tami Eggleston about matching tried and true instructional design models (e.g., Bloom’s Taxonomy, the “7 Principles”) with affordances of technology tools. In addition, the TLT Group has long maintained an excellent web page matching the Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice with technology tools and …

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Social-Psychological Interventions in Education: They’re Not Magic

by Andy SaltarelliInstructional Technology, Social, Social PsychologyPosted on No Comments

“Social-psychological interventions complement—and do not replace—traditional educational reforms. They do not teach students academic content or skills, restructure schools, or improve teacher training. Instead, they allow students to take better advantage of learning opportunities that are present in schools and tap into existing recursive processes to generate long-lasting effects.” (Walton & Yeager, 2011, p. 293)

Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning

by Andy SaltarelliInstructional Technology, PhDPosted on No Comments

I was privileged to present at the Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning today on “Making it fit: Matching instructional technology with learning task”. As always, I consider good talks as those that barely get the ball rolling and create more cognitive dissonance than convergent solutions. I’m not sure if I accomplished that goal, …

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Entry Cost

by Andy SaltarelliInstructional TechnologyPosted on No Comments

I recently started using Instapaper on a recommendation from Scott McLeod via Twitter. In a nutshell, Instapaper allows you to save local copies of web pages for later viewing on multiple devices (e.g., iPad/iPhone, Kindle, etc), turn said pages into simpler text objects, and organize everything in a sharable, socially friendly structure. Now, if you’re …

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