Welcome
Welcome to mortempo. This is a blog on digital tools in education written by a teacher in Norway. I write in both English and Norwegian on how ICT and digital tools affect my teaching. I'm currently doing a masters thesis in didactics, and posts reflect this. All photos used are my own and are to be found at Flickr.
Nytt skoleår går av stabelen i morgen etter en lang og fin sommerferie. Som lærere flest så tumler jo hodet med nye idéer og tanker om hva som kan gjøres bedre neste år. Det er viktig å sette seg mål som en kan strekke seg etter med det for øyet å forbedre sin egenkompetanse og [...]
De mest hyppige ordene i blogginnleggene mine på masterbloggen i modulen digital kompetanse. Her følger lenke til eksamensmappa i digital kompetanse. Jeg har valgt å lage en digital utgave, en enkel nettside med forside, arbeidsmappe og refleksjonstekst. Sistnevnte ligger også som PDF til nedlastning på nettsiden.
New Realities, New Skills
Visuell kommunikasjon. Stensilkunstnerne Dolk og Pøbel har fått pryde Trondheim Sentralbanestasjon. Er bilder viktigere enn tekst i en digital tidsalder? Jeg har vært to dager på NKUL denne uka, og fått med meg to interessante presentasjoner blant ellers mye kjent. Det er allikevel påfallende at de fleste sesjoner faller i kategorien en-til-mange kommunikasjon og ikke [...]
[ALIGN=justify]<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortsan/337292117/” title=”Swingin’ by mortsan, on Flickr”><img src=”http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/337292117_2dbe766be5.jpg” width=”500″ height=”333″ alt=”Swingin’” /></a> [I]The Internet can be a complex and spiderweb-like place to find relevant and reliable information. [/I] Searching for information becomes increasingly an omnipresent activity for students and teachers alike. But how much do we actually know about how search functions? When I asked [...]
I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel [...]
>This entry is a translated version of an entry at my academic blog. I have now completed my multimodal poetry montagé and with Løvland’s and Van Leeuwen’s theories in mind, I now wish to reflect upon the process and product. I chose Whitmans’ poem for its initial simplicty, however I must ad that the fact [...]
The early evidence suggests, that digital immersion may alter Net Geners’ visual systems, especially the speed of their visual reflexes. It may also alter the way they like to take in information and what they remember. But does it also affect the way they think? (p. 106, Tapscott. Grown up Digital) In English today I [...]
Grammatical Competence and Models of L2 Learning
Having an exam tomorrow I felt I needed an overview of topics to be tested on (history of science and philosophy). I needed the bigger picture, sort of speak, and after using large sheets of paper to draft ideas, concepts, names and – isms I wanted to see if I could transfer the same intuitiveness [...]
