[Keynote Address at the 2021 UP Manila Orientation for New Faculty] Chancellor Padilla, our esteemed Vice Chancellors, Deans, distinguished members of the Committee on Instruction, and my fellow faculty of UP Manila, good morning. I am honored to be given the opportunity to address you today on the opening of the 2021 orientation for new… Continue reading Reflections on Adaptive Expertise
Author: Iris Thiele Isip- Tan
On Connectivism, Lectures and Classroom Discussions
I’ve heard teachers say, what’s the use of teaching when students can Google anything? Well, try googling anything. Thousands of links come up. Which one is the most useful? Which information applies to the local setting? Is the information trustworthy or correct? We have to equip students to sift through so much information. Someone said… Continue reading On Connectivism, Lectures and Classroom Discussions
Why I Ask Students to Blog in My Informatics Class
This semester will be the 4th year I am teaching HI 201: Health Informatics in the MS Health Informatics medical informatics track. Since the first year, I’ve asked my students to blog for my class. Here’s why – This slide is from my slide deck http://www.slideshare.net/isiptan/hi-201-health-informatics. You can read the blog post by Jenny Luca… Continue reading Why I Ask Students to Blog in My Informatics Class
Visual Learning
The subtitle of this post should be Why I Ask My Students to Make A Concept Map, Mind Map and Infographic. This post is also my assignment for a course I am taking on Coursera, eLearning Ecologies: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning for the Digital Age. I teach health informatics in graduate school. I… Continue reading Visual Learning
Differentiated Learning
From my notes watching Bill Cope’s video this week. Differentiated learning: each according to their interest and need. Every learner does not have to be on the same page at the same time, nor complete a task at the same pace; nor do they even need to be doing the same task. A focus on… Continue reading Differentiated Learning
Ubiquitous Learning
I recently completed e-Learning Ecologies: Innovative Approach to Teaching & Learning for the Digital Age from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Coursera. From this course, I learned about the 7 affordances of technology in education which can be found below. Cope & Kalantzis believe that these affordances allow us to use technology to… Continue reading Ubiquitous Learning