Martin Atkins

One huge advantage of teaching social media is that no sooner have you written the last line - than the first line is out of date. There are so many new applications and platforms that it just isn't possible to stay totally on top of the curve. By adopting a more questioning approach - I've found students are happy to talk about their favourite platform and even teach a class (a ten minute instructional workshop) in it. The old idea that the instructor is the holder of knowledge just doesn't work any more. Are there similar experiences in other subjects?

This is a question for me - certainly a five minute call at an unwelcome hour can be a pain - but when questions are left unanswered they can fester and end up with a student dropping. Up to this point I haven't minded the small inconveniences in exchange for the larger consequences of a drop - there might come a point when this is not so but, a stitch in time? What are your boundaries?

I hadn't thought about this before - but as we grow up - unless there is an intervention - we are likely to repeat the past learning methods - In Japan they have regular conferences where hundreds of teachers will redefine (and refine) the methods of teaching to certain age groups. The more I get into teaching - the more I want to learn about it. .....oh, I guess I am!