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Thai culture

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Submitted by Brian Mason on July 24, 2018 - 4:30pm

This is a discussion of Thai culture as it relates to learning. 

The focus is on understanding, mitigating the worst, and leveraging the best. 

Teacher's Assistant

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Submitted by Brian Mason on December 16, 2016 - 9:41am

One strategy for helping talented bored students is to facilitate them acting as Teacher's Assistants (TAs).  An example is to enable them to markup some peer's work with teacher monitoring.

Stronger students and weaker students learn more.  

TAs might be celebrated or effectively secret, TAs provide feedback online and perhaps discretely in person, depending on the school culture.

The system can add value by giving select students markup access to a few other student's class work.

Skills gap

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Submitted by Brian Mason on December 16, 2016 - 9:14am

Due to talent differences, interests, grouping students by age regardless (aka platooning), and background there are always large gaps in skills within a class.  A common way this manifests is that some are bored and many are lost.  This contributes to behavior problems and retards learning.

How can this system help me mitigate this problem?

Video clips

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Submitted by Brian Mason on March 2, 2016 - 4:48pm
"I like to share videos to help my students understand.  I bookmark YouTube, Vimeo ...  record time slices (e.g. start 1:58 for 39 seconds).  Fairly time consuming and not easy to share with students."
"The internet at my school sucks.  I am not able to show material especially videos reliably."
"My students want to be able to find germaine videos to view again and I know my allies (colleagues) have found/created great videos but it is not easy to find them."