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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.
>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 that [...]
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 taught [...]
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 [...]
In this essay I will present the main content of two books attempting to address the increasing need to acquire cultural and intercultural skills and competence. I will focus on aspects of the two books which is relevant for my profession as a teacher in an international secondary school in Trondheim, and then go on [...]
(The presentation is in English as this is my target language, but reflection text in Norwegian.)
Dette er en refleksjonstekst knyttet til et undervisningsopplegg i en engelsktime på ungdomstrinnet hvor dramaturgiske prinsipper er tatt i bruk. Dette er en oppgave i modulen Dramaturgisk kompetanse som er en del av mastergraden jeg tar ved NTNU, Trondheim.
Hensikt
Hovedformålet med [...]
Task: Using paintings, photographs, music or films to foster cultural comptence
Outline a didactical project where you use paintings, music or film to increase your pupils’ cultural awareness. Would you have to change your presentation if you were to think in terms of cultural AND intercultural competence?
This didactical project would be presented in a [...]
The forms of communication today are bewildering. Especially to digital immigrants, but perhaps also for my students, lest not forget we, the teachers. We have started this year with setting up a wiki, but we have also set up a class blog for info regarding homework, which is also shared in a calendar online (Google [...]
