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Appropriating technologies for contextual knowledge: Mobile Personal Learning EnvironmentsThis slideshare presentation looks at work being undertaken through the European Commission funded Mature-IP project. The project is researching and developing the use of a Personal Learning and Maturing Environment (PLME)) for knowledge development and sharing in the workplace. The ...
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Women-Related Science/Technology SitesHere are selected women-related sites focusing on science and technology. Though some sites aimed at encouraging girls' interest in these areas are included below, more can be found on the Websites for Girls page.
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How Much Should Government Regulate Home Schooling?How Much Should Government Regulate Home Schooling? Proposals by the English government to increase regulation of home schooling have been met by opposition. Governments in Europe and the U.S. have had difficulty finding the right balance that gives parents the freedom to educate their ...
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Rethinking the Student-Centered ClassroomThese Type II applications, if applied liberally in a classroom, will be disruptive to the status quo. This may disconcert the traditional-minded. But no longer is it an option to continue only with the teacher-student delivery model that is now mismatched for an information age. Students ...
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Facebook Scam! Woman Wired $4k AbroadToday, we received news that a woman from Missouri got conned to wire about $4,000 to a “friend” in England. This woman received a help request message from her “friend” saying that she and husband got detained in London and needed the money to be released.
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Standardized Testing: Who can unlearn all the facts that I’ve learned?Dr Pasi Sahlberg, the lead education specialist at the European Training Foundation (ETF) and an expert in educational policy, believes that the reliance on standardized testing to judge the success of schools in educating students has led to the development of market-driven education ...
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Community VoicesCommunity Voices aims to inspire, engage and support disadvantaged and isolated communities across England to get their voices heard through digital media. Led by Media Trust, and running until March 2011, Community Voices will provide funding for 26 grassroots groups, alongside one major new ...
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Atlantic Rising - education to confront climate change.Atlantic Rising - a project promoting conversation and project work among pupils at 45 schools around the Atlantic shore at the 1.5 metre gradient – the point of likely sea level rise by 2100. We are linking schools in 13 countries around the Atlantic – Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, England, ...
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Does Social Networking Breed Social Division?Is the social media revolution bringing us together? Or is it perpetuating divisions by race and class? Many of us would like to believe the Internet is a force for unity, but Danah Boyd, a social media researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman ...
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Learning in the Digital AgeThe view of conventional universities as delivering information to comparatively passive learners is outdated and simply wrong. (This is the sort of thinking that has hampered development of viable for-profit alternatives to universities.) The changes envisioned here will neither occur nor be ...
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