Author: jamierhouse
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Do you have knowledge if you do not have direct experience?
Your friend tells you the score of the football game. He did not watch the game, he just overheard the score from someone on the bus who was talking to his friend. Apparently, the Rockets broke the tie in the 89th minute and won 3-2. Do you know the score? Traditionally, in epistemology (the study
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Inductive Reasoning
What is inductive reasoning and why does making claims using inductive reasoning not give us certain truth?
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The Problem of Induction
What is the problem of relying on inductive knowledge? Maybe none at all if you are able to pry apart the notion of knowledge and the notion of certainty.
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Proceed with purpose and guidance when using technology with students
The more I study about technology in education, it becomes more apparent to me that technology has shifted further learning from a behaviorist paradigm to a learner-centered socially constructivist paradigm. But that does not mean we should leave students to their own devices (pun intended). As much as we see the potential for technology to
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MOTIVATED Teachers: The key to meaningful technology integration.
Simply imposing reform-based ideas on schools and teachers will not result in substantial adoption of these practices into teaching and learning (Chen, 2008; Uluyol & Sahin, 2016; Vrasidas; 2015). For sufficient change to take place, teachers need motivation to use technology in innovative ways (Sang, Valcke, van Braak, Tondeur and Zhu, 2011). There are many
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The Importance of Teachers as Role Models of LEARNING
I was on a 4-day course this weekend completing my International Schools Services (ISS) EAL Certification. The focus in the third installment explored how linguistics can be used to address specific language learning issues with our student populations. We analyzed how language and learning interact by looking at syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics, pragmatics and the
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Action Research: Thoughts on the significance and advantages of qualitative research
The most distinguishable aspect of qualitative research for me is that it is more applicable to the smaller sample sizes (our classrooms) available to us as teacher/researchers . It also considers the whole of our local situations as opposed to particular variables in larger quantitative research studies. For most of us teaching in international schools, the application of
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