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Naturally curious
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In a curriculum based on facts and box-ticking, creativity is often overlooked. "The government emphasis on data, evidence, results and league tables is not to do with the quality of learning," says Penny Hay, Director of Research at 5x5x5. "The performance-led agenda is closing down possibilities for children rather than opening them up."... Read more
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The Reinventing Education Change Toolkit
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The Reinventing Education Change Toolkit, based on the work of Harvard Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, is a website created by IBM to help education professionals be more effective at leading and implementing change... Read more >>
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James Evans discusses why researchers cite fewer research papers
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Thanks to the Internet, scientists now have access to an astonishing number of research papers,scholarly journals and other papers. But according to new research
conducted by James Evans, a professor sociology at the University of Chicago, researchers are actually citing fewer papers than ever, and they tend to cite newer papers that are also cited by many of their peers. (Video) .. Read more >>
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Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
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The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is an online, open access
academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review
and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the
world. The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is a transdisciplinary
journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship and welcomes
contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect
virtual worlds research... Read more >>
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Comments On Proving the Potential of Virtual Worlds
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My negative comments on Second Life in my July 2nd post inspired
several replies which rightly chastised me for being too one sided.
Given that readers of the e-mail version of this newsletter don't
automatically get the comments, I am reproducing them here... Read more >>
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How useful is online social networking in Education?
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Nine- to-17-year-olds now spend almost as much time using social networking services and web sites as they spend watching television, the study revealed. Among teens, that amounts to about nine hours a week on social networking activities, compared to about 10 hours a week watching TV... Read more >>
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Personalisation, protection and permissions
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Parental engagement is critically important in promoting learning,
particularly for younger children. Praise from family members for what
a young member of the family has achieved has much greater value than
praise from their teacher... Read more >>
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Transfer Of Learning Traced To Areas Of The Brain
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Practice makes perfect, but a question that still remains a mystery is
why it is so difficult to transfer learning from a trained to an
untrained task? Why are we no better at remembering faces when we have
been training our memory for words? ... Read more >>
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