How to teach digital reading?

Digital Narrative as a Change Agent to Teach Reading to Media-Centric Students

Because today’s media centric students have adopted digital as their native form of communication, teachers are having increasingly difficult time motivating reluctant readers to read and write. Our research has shown these text-averse individuals can learn to understand the importance of reading and writing if the instruction is based on digital narratives. While these students are naturally a...

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

How to Teach Difference Lists?

Lists are, on the one hand, a useful modeling construct in logic programming because of their not predefined length, on the other hand the concatenation of lists by append(L1,L2,L3) is rather inefficient because it copies the list L1. To avoid the invocation of the append/3-procedure an alternative possibility is the use of incomplete lists of the form [ el1, ... elk | Var], in which Var descri...

How to . . . Teach practical skills

Practical skills teaching in medicine has traditionally been based on the principles of ‘see one, do one, teach one’. Healthcare professionals learn a wide range of practical skills over the years – from basic skills such as suturing a skin wound or the incision and draining of an abscess, to undertaking more complex technical procedures in theatre, such as appendectomy. But to what extent is t...

How to teach Quantum Mechanics

In the following Bell gives an account of the Lorentzian interpretation of relativistic effects, in which the Lorentz transformations are explained by a dynamical mechanism (including the assumption of an – though undetectable – aether) rather than derived from postulates as in the approach of Einstein. Bell concludes that teaching relativity can benefit from what he calls a “Lorentzian pedagog...