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Personalisation, protection and permissionsParental 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 BrainPractice 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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KS3/4 ICT - Online SafetyThis programme outlines simple classroom activities to help teachers to take practical steps to keep pupils safe online and to increase awareness of the potential dangers of internet usage. (Video)... Read more |
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June issue of CountdownThe Progression grid is designed to help support teachers’ assessment judgements, based on evidence from the tasks and also on what pupils do in the classroom. It was originally developed to aid task development, but its usefulness as a tool providing support both for judgements teachers might make with pupils and for planning future teaching and learning soon became apparent(PDF)... Read more |
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Time for a rethink on internet plagiarism?Schools have a major role to play in developing integrity and we can anticipate having to work harder to explain to our students that it would be an empty examination success if it came as a result of copied or purchased work... Read more |
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How mobile phones help learning in secondary schoolsIn spite of school policies banning mobile phones in class, teachers in three schools explored ways of using students' own phones and borrowed smart phones for learning... Read more>> |
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Is e-learning failing in higher education?In particular, although there are many innovative ‘projects’, often dependent on the work of inspired and hard-working individual instructors, and although many institutions have put in place learning technology and faculty development initiatives, there appears to be little systemic change Read more |
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E-Books in Higher Education: Nearing the End of the Era of Hype?This pairing of quotes from one of the world's largest newspapers illustrates a few key points relevant to those of us in higher education involved with, or concerned over, the future of printed course materials... Read more |
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Cyberschoolbus launches new live video chat featureThe United Nations Cyberschoolbus has added a new feature called "live video chats" that will allow teachers and students around the world to see and hear up to four guest speakers at a time and interact with them live from the comfort of their desktop or laptop computers.... Read more |
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Open Access - opportunities and challenge: a handbookThe current digital age has opened up unprecedented opportunities for the dissemination of knowledge. One much debated way of sharing information, and in particular peer-reviewed academic publications, is open access. “Open Access” refers to free access to scientific and, increasingly, other academic publications over the internet. Read more |
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Sally Trowbridge
Spain
Hi Fawgill,
The exercise generator is working fine in Firefox here. Could you try a...
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fawgill
United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Hi, i have logged into British Council and Icant use theExerciseGenerator either. I get...
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gumgus
Russia
A lot of information to thik over & impliment.
Thanks!
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