The Wikipedia School of Education
When I started in instructional technology at NJIT in 2000, one of my fears was that I would be dealing with professors who were focused on research and had little interest in pedagogy. There were certainly some of those professors. A research university (especially a science and technology university) breeds those and nurtures them. But I was very pleasantly surprised that the teachers who came to the workshops and seminars we offered on a regular basis were very interested in pedagogy. A number of those faculty members told me that, "Basically I teach the way I was taught. I try to imitate the good teachers and avoid the bad things I saw as a student."
I clearly remember a workshop we did on designing assignments using Bloom's Taxonomy. No one in the group had ever heard of Benjamin Bloom. They knew taxonomies and liked that it had a nice scientific taste. The conversation was quite heated with people disagreeing with what I (Bloom) was calling "knowledge."
Over my seven years there, I did many workshops that mixed technology & pedagogy and I came to appreciate for myself many of the topics like Bloom, learning styles, curriculum design, rubrics etc. that were an everyday part of the educational world I had lived in for a few decades.
I was looking for some links in Wikipedia a few weeks ago to use for a workshop and realized that I was building quite a list of bookmarks that started to sound like a syllabus for an education course.
I'm putting a list of them here as a kind of Wikipedia education course. The articles are a good starting place in learning about some people and topics in education. One of the things I do like about using Wikipedia is that the external links at the bottom of an article are often a nicely selected way to start your own research - and much more filtered than a Google search.
- John Dewey
- William Spady
- Jean Piaget
- Benjamin Bloom
- Marc Tucker
- Maria Montesori -
- Outcome-based education
- Cognitive load
- Standards-based education reform
- Outcomes-based education
- Developmentally Appropriate Practice
- Holism
- Constructivism
- Active learning
- Problem-based learning
- Discovery learning
- Inquiry-based science
- Inventive spelling
- Open-space schools
- Small schools movement
- Inclusion
- Learning standards
- National Science Education Standards
- National Reading Panel
- Standards-based mathematics
- No Child Left Behind Act and some of its components like
- Adequate Yearly Progress
- School-to-work transition
- National Skill Standards Board
- Standards-based assessment
- Authentic assessment
- Criterion-referenced test
- Norm-referenced test
- Standards-based assessment
I'll label these as "K-12" and hope that higher ed readers will be smart enough to see the connections.
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