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• Here’s how the iPad is making teachers more tech-savvy at one British school | TabTimes

  
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  Here’s how the iPad is making teachers more tech-savvy at one British school | TabTimes . A very interesting article. I was given some interesting figures recently. Apparently, to equip all late stage primary and secondary pupils and their teachers in Scotland with iPads could cost in the order of £ £25 ...
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• Educational Readings - narrowing the curriculum

  
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  By Allan Alach   One of today’s items discusses the myth of lagging US schools , and, as I noted in my introduction, this equally applies to schooling in other countries. This is no coincidence, and is consistent with the practice of disaster capitalism (Naomi Klein). This either takes advantage of ...
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• Yr 9 Angie Lewin Inspired Prints

  
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• Learning in Networks of Knowledge

  
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  For me, knowledge networks is what it’s all about!  I was honoured to speak with the staff of the State Library of NSW about the issues and drivers that we consider as we work with students in our tertiary learning environments. Learning in Networks of Knowledge was just the beginning of a bigger conversation. ...
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• Discussing design models for hybrid/blended learning and the impact on the campus

  
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   A couple of weeks ago I had an interesting meeting with about 25 instructional designers from UBC, where we discussed design models for hybrid learning, defined as a deliberate attempt to combine the best of both face-to-face and online learning. Hybrid learning: the next big change in online learning? Despite ...
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• Lecturing in High Def

  
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  At the risk of being declared obsessive, I have one more rant about the educational philosophy of Bill Gates based on the Fast Company interview with him. This time, his vision of that classic instructional tool: the lecture. That’s one more goal: to revolutionize the lecture in terms of cost and quality. The ...
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• Leading the way in education - instead of following the failing neo liberal agenda

  
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  Yong - Zhao Education in America  is at a crossroads, writes American educator Yong-Zhao Ironically while China is busy trying to transform its test orientated education into a talent orientated system , writes Chinese born but now a respected American educator Yong- Zhao, America ( and now New ...
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• Ethics, job offers, and the university

  
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  Water cooler talk can be an interesting diversion if you do not apply too much critical thinking skills to the topic. Today, I am going to go ahead and work through a discussion that comes up every year at universities. Is it ethical for a graduating student to accept a job offer and then rescind the acceptance to ...
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• Don’t Worry, Bill Will Be Fine

  
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  In their current issue, Fast Company, a business magazine that focuses on technology and design, presents an interview with Bill Gates , in which he "offers his cure for what ails the education system". Although the intro section includes a little criticism, it’s pretty clear from the start the writer has no ...
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• Buyer Beware

  
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  As I’ve mentioned in other rants , I speak to many groups on the topic of managing information while on the go and using multiple devices to do it. While each person needs to figure out the process that works best for them, almost everyone now depends on interconnected services and applications that can sync to ...
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• Drawing & Learning in 1861

  
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  Teach a person to see any one thing, just as it is, in form and color, and as it stands related to other objects around, and you accomplish much. – Lewis P. Clover (1861) As Marianne North painted habitat studies, plant portraits and botanical still life paintings while traveling the world, she had an educational ...
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• Transform Education? Yes we must., Lets listen to Sir Ken Robinson.

  
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  I have to admit being somewhat disillusioned by the lack of leadership of those who profess to lead the education profession. Perhaps I expect too much? At best educational spokespeople talk and write about the negative effects of National Standards as if schools were to be left alone the status quo would be ...
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• Does technology make the outdoors more appealing?

  
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  An analysis of outdoor activities by Deborah J. Chavez, a specialist in outdoor recreation research, suggests this to be the case. Chavez writes about student reactions to selected outdoor activities in Youth Day in Los Angeles: Evaluating the Role of Technology in Children’s Nature Activities. The Youth Day ...
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• The Beauty of the Middle

  
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  cc photo by cdsessums Some people like very well-defined lines. Black and white. Nice, neat boxed-in rooms with corners.           cc photo by Matt1125 And then there are others who prefer blurry lines. Grey. Overlapping circles.   I think that learning is is a blurry line. Definitely grey ...
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• Oversight of Teaching and Learning

  
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  This afternoon we will finally get a management oversight work session for teaching and learning, you know, the school districts core mission. Here is the presentation that will be made to the Board. Here are some questions that the presentations makes me want to ask: Slide 1: Why is this Part 1? How ...
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• Can you teach lab science via remote labs?

  
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  Colorado Community Colleges remote lab: in the background is an air-track for physics, in the middle a spectrometer for chemistry and in the foreground a microscope for biology Contact North (2013) The Colorado Community College System  Sudbury ON: Contact North Contact North has been developing a series of posts ...
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• Seattle Schools This Week

  
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  Monday, April 22nd Announcement from the White House for the 2013 Teacher of the Year.  Washington State Teacher of the Year, Jeff Charbonneau , is one of four finalists.  I think he is a great and inspiring teacher so Im crossing my fingers he will be named the National Teacher of the Year.   If you know a ...
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• Bolton School pupils enjoy a print workshop at Neo Artists print studio

  
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  Yesterday six pupils, Jessica, Chloe, Megan, Alex, Jess and Megan (Year 11) created beautiful solar plate etchings at Neo Artists studios in Bolton.  The girls created their own solar plates and printed them in black and white and colour.  The workshop was run by artist Denis Whiteside and artist Jacqui Priestey was ...
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• Truth in Sharing

  
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  A close friend of mine once shared some good advice – share the positive stories. Keep your tweets positive. We need to know the good things that are happening in education. I agree. There’s so much negative in education these days, that we need to ensure people read and hear all the amazing things that are ...
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• Educational Readings - some interesting odds and ends !

  
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  By Allan Alach New Zealand teachers and children have now completed the end of term one and now have two weeks break until next term . I stopped referring to these breaks as school holidays a number of years ago, as this conveys the wrong impression to people who are ignorant of the demands of teaching. ...
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