If you missed yesterday's Pisa results webinar hosted by Andreas Schleicher it is now available on slideshare.
I hope it is possible to listen to the presentation and not just look at the slides. Some of them are rather complex and need oral explanations.
All in all, it was a rewarding experience to take part in this webinar, not only content wise (even if the focus was just on mathematics) but also method wise. It worked pretty well even if the sound quality wasn't optimum and thus made it a little harder at times to follow the conference. In the end participants had the chance to ask questions and the speaker did a good job at answering them.
As we know, Shanghai got the best results in all 3 subjects which made me wonder if there is any price to pay for the students. I got the answer in today's (5.12) Helsingin Sanomat: pupils study very hard during the day and also at home and spare time doesn't exceed half a day per week. Also, self reflection is not encouraged. Parents and children are mostly interested in the grades rather than by learning itself.
And of course, Shanghai (together with Hong-kong) are exceptions as other regions in China suffer from the lack of qualified teachers, poor infrastructures and a huge number of pupils per class.
Did anyone take part in this webinar ? Any reflections you would like to share with us ? This is the place!
I hope it is possible to listen to the presentation and not just look at the slides. Some of them are rather complex and need oral explanations.
All in all, it was a rewarding experience to take part in this webinar, not only content wise (even if the focus was just on mathematics) but also method wise. It worked pretty well even if the sound quality wasn't optimum and thus made it a little harder at times to follow the conference. In the end participants had the chance to ask questions and the speaker did a good job at answering them.
As we know, Shanghai got the best results in all 3 subjects which made me wonder if there is any price to pay for the students. I got the answer in today's (5.12) Helsingin Sanomat: pupils study very hard during the day and also at home and spare time doesn't exceed half a day per week. Also, self reflection is not encouraged. Parents and children are mostly interested in the grades rather than by learning itself.
And of course, Shanghai (together with Hong-kong) are exceptions as other regions in China suffer from the lack of qualified teachers, poor infrastructures and a huge number of pupils per class.
Did anyone take part in this webinar ? Any reflections you would like to share with us ? This is the place!
I embedded the slideset, which unfortunately has no audio :( (When a Slideshare presentation has soundtrack included, it is shown in the top left corner (yellow corner with the text: Slidecast, Audio track inside.
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Thanks. Indeed that's a pity to get the slides without the sound! Too bad but better than nothing I suppose...
ReplyDeleteTrue! It is, however, a little bit complicated to sync audio to slides in Slideshare, and that might higher the bar for doing it. You have to upload the audio on mp3 format, and sync it "by hand" by dragging start-stop markers to indicate the beginning and en of each slide in relation to the audio. Sometimes the lack of the soundtrack is due to the fact that nobody made a recording in the first place (or it was too much background noise in a big lecture hall etc.) I have sometimes tried to make a new recording to my slides afterwards, but, boy, does it often turn dull as compared to the authentic situation, where the presenter gets so much energy from the audience! I really admire some of our colleagues, who can make quite interesting presentations talking by themselves!
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