I liked your page http://www.learningandteaching.info/teaching/what_works.htm
but the link to Hattie seems to be broken.
Try
http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz/staff/j.hattie/

Others use projectors to deliver a breadth of notes they would otherwise have written on the chalkboard. And this is what you are referring to. And no, we should praise them for using technology to engage the students, because, well, they’re not.

But don’t blame the LCD projector.

The solution: You’ve got to convince said teacher that this is not an effective way of delivering content. Just because technology is being used does not mean it is effective. Technology is not always the answer. I think the good teachers realize that. They use it when they know it’ll be effective, omit it when it’s not.

And I guess you could argue that the “21st Century Teaching” movement should be training teachers when and how to use that technology, and when to say, “Okay, it’s not going to work here. You’ll need a pen and some paper for this one.”

I know you have nothing better to do than reply to blue-moon visitors to your blog, however, I will throw you a bone: What works and what doesn’t Quote: “OK, so the majority of innovations and methods “work”, according to the meta-analysis (bearing in mind that unless substantial funding and contractual obligations to publish were involved, most researchers would not be inclined to publish negative findings). But which work really well, and which have such a marginal effect that it is not worth the bother? That is the critical question. Here is the answer!

curious: I’ve been told by the blog police that one should ‘praise locally and criticize globally’.

how does your staff (presuming they read your blog) handle the stark difference between informing your own instruction versus identifying their “limited mobility”?

I see a lot of teachers use LCD projectors as just another way to display a bunch of notes and/or vocabulary “UP” on the board. The projector actually acts as an extra barrier between the students and the lesson. The lesson’s “UP” there on the screen, the teacher’s hidden behind a computer, and the students are copying “what’s UP there” “DOWN” in their little little spiral notebooks.

Should I deduct that LCD projectors are a joke and the teachers that use them to be techie “wonks” who don’t really care about their students?

Or, should I look to those teachers who utilize LCD projectors to enrich their lessons and further engage students?

I think the former deduction makes for a much more interesting blog, but…