Educational Theory

I just taught a group of delightful Korean students from Chuncheon. These students are teacher trainees, and my brief was to introduce them to principles of autonomous learning as we see it here in a Western setting. The idea was to give a short lecture on Independent learning... background, theory, practicalities etc. I wouldn't usually give a lecture but I was informed by the programme administrator that the students requested lectures for listening and note-taking practice. So... in launched I, spouting on about social constructivism and the role of the teacher, the role and responsibilities of the student. To my surprise, and I don't know why considering they are teacher trainees, they were already familiar with the educational theory, and asked me some rather probing and insightful questions about practical and pragmatic issues associated with learner autonomy as it relates to their classroom practice. I was delighted and impressed with them (especially considering that their language level was pre-intermediate level).
After that I introduced them to blogs in English. They were already very familiar with the idea; they all had mini websites using blogging software from home, so they were easily able to transfer the principles to blogging in English.
I've put their sites here in my links comments... the first 11 on the list