Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id WAA22969; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:38:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:38:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20000606023417.43467.qmail@hotmail.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "ralph silva" <silva_ralph@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:257] another angle X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 1714 Lines: 39 OK, how about increasing learner persistence by making your offerings more interesting? Doesn't learning happen accidently while we're doing something fun? I ask all my GED students why they dropped out of high school. They rarely report academic problems as the main cause. Most students talk about how boring school had become. I frequently get some version of "I just couldn't sit there any longer" or "The classes were meaningless". I decided early on that I had to engage learners in interesting activities, and that academic progress would occur incidently. Since our center has a room full of computers hooked up to the Internet, it has been easy to use the technology to engage learners. I get them into intelligent web searches, e-mail discussion groups, and online content sites. I find that the draw of using computers helps learners persist in their plan. My training is in History, so I favor those kinds of sites for information and interactive quizzes. Here are a few I have found. There are many more on the net, increasing in numbers all the time. Does anyone out there have cool educational sites to share? RS American History quizzes and trivia; http://www.aristotle.net/july4th/dont4get/trivia.html http://www.zuska.simplenet.com/USQuizMainPage.htm African American History; http://www.detnews.com/blkhist/ http://www.academicinfo.net/africanam.html Native American History; http://www.emayzine.com/exams/Hist16a1.htm All kinds of quizzes, concentration games, flash cards. You can create and submit quizzes to the site; http://www.quia.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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