The Use of Film to Support Classroom Literacy Learning

nikeditor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:53:37 +0100

In the western metropolitan region of Victoria, Australia, groups of students, with one teacher assigned to each group, have been given the opportunity to script, film and edit a short film every year... Read more >>

Gateway to 21st Century Skills.

nikeditor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:48:48 +0100

Join educators sharing and networking with other educators. Our focus is on the community discussion surrounding learning resources facilitated by Web 2.0 technologies. Make suggestions, highlight best practices, add academic standards correlations, give helpful hints and more... Read more >>

SOS Children launches Wikipedia for Schools

nikeditor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:45:10 +0100

Volunteers at the English Wikipedia and SOS Children have today launched The Wikipedia Selection for Schools. The Selection is about the size of a 15 volume encyclopaedia with 24,000 pictures, 14 million words and articles on 4,625 topics. It includes the best of Wikipedia as well as many thousands of pages of extra material specifically selected to be of interest to children... Read more >>

Learning styles... again

nikeditor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:43:09 +0100

Once again, because I found the material logical and easy to understand, it never occurred to me to question the validity of the theories or the research. I embraced it enthusiastically, to the extent that I developed a resource for my students at the IT learning centre, by means of which they could identify their own learning style and adopt some tactics that would enable them to maximise their learning experience at the centre... Read more >>

Improving behaviour and attendance: guidance on exclusion from schools and Pupil Referral

nikeditor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:30:04 +0100

The decision to exclude a pupil is a serious one. It will usually be the final step in a process for dealing with disciplinary offences following a wide range of strategies that have been tried without success... Download Guide >>

Tackle youth violence by ending illiteracy

nikeditor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:24:37 +0100

This focus on exam results can leave a significant number of "hopeless" cases left behind. As the recent SATs result show, almost a fifth of students leave primary school without basic literacy. Allowing this number of children to slip through the net can have a detrimental effect on their behaviour in adolescence and through into adulthood... Read more >>

Who personalises learning? The learners of course

nikeditor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:45:07 +0100

Forums, quizzes and a wide range of online collaborative activities helped support children as self-directed learners. But the key lessons from Ranvilles transcend ICT and the infant age group too, and lie at the heart of learning - because Ranvilles’ quest had been to re-energise the curriculum, with the children at the centre... Read more >>

My-E

nikeditor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:37:38 +0100

My-E (My Education) is a prototype online visual environment that can support very young students to explore and express their own personal learning experiences, interests and aims... Read more >>

Mediating the Tensions of Online Learning with Second Life

nikeditor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:35:09 +0100

The authors posit that a multiuser virtual environment such as Second Life offers a valuable medium for enhancing and enriching online education because it meets human needs for belonging, esteem, and self-actualization... Read more >>

Understanding the Net Generation's Texts

nikeditor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:28:09 +0100

Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley explore the nature of Net-Generation texts as a reflection of the cognitive differences between this generation's students and their older instructors... Read more >>

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