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Ed Webb

Fears over education's gender gap - The National Newspaper - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 06 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • Emirati boys are posting lower examination scores and dropping out of high school at a much greater rate than Emirati girls, newly released research shows.

    It also found that among pupils who complete secondary schooling, many fewer boys go on to a university education.
  • although 70 per cent of Emirati girls enrol at university after high school, the figure for boys is only 27 per cent.

  • The drop-out rates are highest in Grade 10, the first non-compulsory year of school, when many boys abandon their education to pursue jobs in the public sector.

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  • “By no means does this study imply that girls have an outstanding quality of education either,” she said. “I would say that neither boys nor girls are receiving the best education that they could in government schools.”
  • Dr Ridge recommended that the Ministry of Education should look at improving the quality of its expatriate teaching force, getting more Emirati men to become teachers, and making schools more attractive to pupils.
  • The Armed Forces and police were a “very attractive” career choice for some because they required minimal education
  • Emiratis make up only one per cent of the UAE’s private sector workforce. The public workforce is 85 per cent Emirati.
  • Ed Webb
    Ed Webb on 06 Nov 09
     
    What are the implications of an undereducated population for media and governance?
Ed Webb

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Arab education UNDP 2009

shared by Ed Webb on 28 Oct 09 - No snapshot
  • "The security sector is taking a lot of resources. If you put the same amount of money into education, you get a better society," Adel Abdellatif of the United Nations Development Program said at the launch of the Arab Knowledge Report 2009.
  • "The security sector is taking a lot of resources. If you put the same amount of money into education, you get a better society," Adel Abdellatif of the United Nations Development Program said at the launch of the Arab Knowledge Report 2009.
  • Arab states could face political and social instability if they underinvest in the education of their young, expanding populations, a regional education report said on Wednesday
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  • Illiteracy is a big obstacle in the Arab world, where around a third of adults, 60 million people, are unable to read or write, the report said. Two thirds of these are women.




    About 9 million children of elementary school age were not attending school, with up to 45 percent of the population not enrolling in secondary education.

Ed Webb

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Elite Saudi university set to open - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 23 Sep 09 - Snapshot
  • Saudi Arabia has set up a new research university, a multibillion dollar co-educational venture built on the promise of scientific freedom.
  • Saudi officials have envisaged the postgraduate institution as a crucial part of the kingdom's plans to transform itself into a global scientific hub - the latest effort in the Gulf region to diversify its economic base.
  • the new university will not require women to wear veils or cover their faces, and they will be able to mix freely with men.
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  • KAUST has enrolled 817 students representing 61 different countries, of whom 314 begin classes this month while the rest are scheduled to enroll in the beginning of 2010.
  • 71 faculty members include 14 from the US, seven from Germany and six from Canada
  • KAUST may indirectly challenge the brand of conservatism that critics say has stifled progress in the Muslim world.

    "We do not restrict how they wish to work among themselves," Shih said, referring to whether men and women can freely intermingle on campus.

    "It's a research environment ... driven by scientific agenda."

    Officials say KAUST's embrace of scientific freedom marks Saudi Arabia's determination to not be left behind as technology increasingly drives global development.
Ed Webb

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq's academy of peace and politeness - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 03 Sep 09 - Snapshot
  • the Academy of Peace through Art, a school created under the umbrella of Iraq's national Symphony Orchestra.
  • dozens of teenagers with different backgrounds learn that boys should open doors for girls and the art of dinner party conversation.
  • "To some people it may seem irrelevant now, because there are so many problems - but we need people who care about beauty, and I am convinced that the day will come when everyone will realise it,"
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  • Their next class is civil interaction, in other words, how to have a conversation without turning it into a confrontation.
gweyman

The Trouble With Twitter - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by gweyman on 23 Aug 09 - Snapshot

  • To those who Twitter, the reporter who investigates a story before offering it to the public must also seem tediously ruminant. On Twitter, the notes become the story, devoid of even five minutes of reflection on the writer's way to the computer. I can see that there are times —an airplane landing in the Hudson, a presidential election in Iran—when this type of impromptu journalism becomes a necessity, and an exciting one at that. Luckily, reporters still exist to make sense of information bytes and expand upon them for readers—but for how much longer?


    I worry that microblogging cheats my students out of their trump card: a mindful attention to the subject in front of them, so that they can capture its sights and sounds, its smells and tactile qualities, to share with readers. How can Twittering stories from laptops and phones possibly replace the attentive journalist who tucks a digital recorder artfully under a notepad, pencil behind one ear, and gives full attention to the subject at hand?

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      gweyman on 24 Aug 09
       
      Bizarre view this - speed has been in inherent in journalism for many a moon. Many have criticized the press for rampaging after a story to get the lastest scoop and then moving on when the headlines shift. And to talk as if we there are still happy boundaries between 'readers' and 'reporters' is outdated. Social media is conversational.
  • I went home after the lecture and—hypocritically, I admit—updated my Facebook status and my blog to declare how much I despise Twitter.
    • gweyman
      gweyman on 24 Aug 09
       
      Twitter envy.
  • Twitter serves as a source of links to longer news stories.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 23 Aug 09
       
      Which is one of its main uses in journalism. As Jay Rosen (@jayrosennyu) and others have put it, through services like Twitter and, indeed, Diigo we edit the web for one another. We can see it as acting as human filters, intelligent gatherers and sifters of information for the various networks in which we are nodes.
    • gweyman
      gweyman on 24 Aug 09
       
      absolutely.
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  • Perhaps a news article really can be crafted, haikulike, in 140 characters.
    • gweyman
      gweyman on 24 Aug 09
       
      Twitter is a stream - like a news wire you add information with time.
  • Melissa Hart is an adjunct instructor of journalism at the University of Oregon
    • gweyman
      gweyman on 24 Aug 09
       
      Not massively impressed with her article.
Ed Webb

Japan university gives away iPhones to nab truants by AP: Yahoo! Tech - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 29 May 09 - Snapshot

  • A prestigious Japanese university is giving away hundreds of iPhones, in part to use its Global Positioning System to nab students that skip class.


    Truants in Japan often fake attendance by getting friends to answer roll-call or hand in signed attendance cards. That's verging on cheating since attendance is a key requirement for graduation here.


    Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo is giving Apple Inc.'s iPhone 3G to 550 students in its School of Social Informatics, which studies the use of Internet and computer technology in society.


    The gadget will work as a tool for studies, but it also comes with GPS, a satellite navigation system that automatically checks on its whereabouts. The university plans to use that as a way check attendance.

Ed Webb

City Brights: Howard Rheingold : 21st Century Literacies - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 12 Apr 09 - Snapshot
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    Ed Webb on 12 Apr 09
     
    How well have you been educated in these skills? How could/should they be taught?
Elizabeth Sick

CentreRight: Hate Education in the Palestinian territories since Annapolis - 0 views

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Education Israel Palestine

shared by Elizabeth Sick on 30 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • Particularly important are the 42 per cent of the Palestinian population who are under 15.  That huge young generation’s attitudes will be critical to whether or not a stable peace can be achieved.
  • Unfortunately, the Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and Gaza do nothing of the sort.  On television and radio, in newspapers and even in school books the Palestinians are encouraged to see an ongoing violent struggle as preferable to a peaceful compromise.
  • Palestinian Authority TV shows images of all of Israel/Palestine draped in the Palestinian flag, encouraging the idea that Israel can, and should, entirely be destroyed if the Palestinians keep fighting.  A history professor told the PBC that the “Jewish disease” is like smallpox.  A school book praises the Iraqi insurgency as a “brave resistance”.  Samir Kuntar, who killed a four-year-old girl and her father, was praised as a hero, again on the PBC.  In Gaza the situation is even worse with a menagerie of animal characters urging children to take up arms and accept nothing less than the conquest of Tel Aviv.
  • Elizabeth Sick
    Elizabeth Sick on 30 Mar 09
     
    A British, conservative blog article written by several authors about hate education in Palestine towards Israel
Ed Webb

A Semester Under Cover at Falwell's Liberty U. - Chronicle.com - 0 views

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    Ed Webb on 26 Mar 09
     
    This is some serious research...
Ed Webb

Reporting an Event with CoverItLive | CoPress - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • It was interesting to know that I was some people’s only source for the news.
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    Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09
     
    Any aspiring journalists or Dickinsonian staffers might want to check this out
Ed Webb

Please Sir, how do you re-tweet? - Twitter to be taught in UK primary schools - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • The British government is proposing that Twitter is to be taught in primary (elementary) schools as part of a wider push to make online communication and social media a permanent part of the UK’s education system. And that’s not all. Kids will be taught blogging, podcasting and how to use Wikipedia alongside Maths, English and Science.
  • Traditional education in areas like phonics, the chronology of history and mental arithmetic remain but modern media and web-based skills and environmental education now feature.
  • The skills that let kids use Internet technologies effectively also work in the real world: being able to evaluate resources critically, communicating well, being careful with strangers and your personal information, conducting yourself in a manner appropriate to your environment. Those things are, and should be, taught in schools. It’s also a good idea to teach kids how to use computers, including web browsers etc, and how those real-world skills translate online.
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  • I think teaching kids HOW TO use Wikipedia is a step forward from ordering them NOT TO use it, as they presently do in many North American classrooms.
  • Open Source software is the future and therefore we need to concentrate on the wheels and not the vehicle!
  • Core skills is very important. Anyone and everyone can learn Photoshop & Word Processing at any stage of their life, but if core skills are missed from an early age, then evidence has shown that there has always been less chance that the missing knowledge could be learnt at a later stage in life.
  • Schools shouldn’t be about teaching content, but about learning to learn, getting the kind of critical skills that can be used in all kinds of contexts, and generating motivation for lifelong learning. Finnish schools are rated the best in the world according to the OECD/PISA ratings, and they have totally de-emphasised the role of content in the curriculum. Twitter could indeed help in the process as it helps children to learn to write in a precise, concise style - absolutely nothing wrong with that from a pedagogical point of view. Encouraging children to write is never a bad thing, no matter what the platform.
  • Front end stuff shouldn’t be taught. If anything it should be the back end gubbins that should be taught, databases and coding.

  • So what’s more important, to me at least, is not to know all kinds of useless facts, but to know the general info and to know how to think and how to search for information.


    In other words, I think children should get lessons in thinking and in information retrieval. Yes, they should still be taught about history, etc. Yes, it’s important they learn stuff that they could need ‘on the spot’ - like calculating skills. However, we can go a little bit easier on drilling the information in - by the time they’re 25, augmented reality will be a fact and not even a luxury.

  • Schools should focus more on teaching kids on how to think creatively so they can create innovative products like twitter rather then teaching on how to use it….
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    Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09
     
    The British government is proposing that Twitter is to be taught in primary (elementary) schools as part of a wider push to make online communication and social media a permanent part of the UK's education system. And that's not all. Kids will be taught blogging, podcasting and how to use Wikipedia alongside Maths, English and Science.
Ed Webb

Building an Internet Culture - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 24 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • ten conclusions that might guide a country's development of a culturally
    appropriate Internet policy
  • Do not spend vast sums of money to buy machinery that you are going to
    set down on top of existing dysfunctional institutions. The Internet, for
    example, will not fix your schools. Perhaps the Internet can be part of a
    much larger and more complicated plan for fixing your schools, but simply
    installing an Internet connection will almost surely be a waste of money.
  • Learning how to use the
    Internet is primarily a matter of institutional arrangements, not technical
    skills
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  • Build Internet civil society. Find those people in every sector of society
    that want to use the Internet for positive social purposes, introduce them to
    one another, and connect them to their counterparts in other countries around
    the world. Numerous organizations in other countries can help with this.
  • Conduct extensive, structured analysis of the technical and cultural
    environment. Include the people whose work will actually be affected. A
    shared analytical process will help envision how the technology will fit into
    the whole way of life around it, and the technology will have a greater chance
    of actually being used.
  • For children, practical experience in organizing complicated social events,
    for example theater productions, is more important than computer skills.
    The Internet can be a powerful tool for education if it is integrated into a
    coherent pedagogy. But someone who has experience with the social skills of
    organizing will immediately comprehend the purpose of the Internet, and will
    readily acquire the technical skills when the time comes
  • Machinery does not reform society, repair institutions, build social
    networks, or produce a democratic culture. People must do those things, and
    the Internet is simply one tool among many. Find talented people and give
    them the tools they need. When they do great things, contribute to your
    society's Internet culture by publicizing their ideas.
Ed Webb

BBC NEWS | Europe | Turkish children drawn into Armenia row - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 24 Mar 09 - Snapshot

  • commissioned by the Turkish General Staff and distributed in recent months by the education ministry.

    It is an attempt to counter what Turkey calls "baseless" claims that Ottoman Turks committed genocide against the Armenians in 1915.

    The DVD was sent to all elementary schools with a note instructing teachers to show it to pupils and report back.

  • "They're promoting discrimination, branding certain people as 'others' and teaching children to do the same. My daughter will not be part of this enmity."

  • "We teach children who our enemies are and which countries tried to divide up our territory, but we don't teach them about the Armenians.

    "So I thought this film was good, and objective."

Elizabeth Sick

Why Education City - 0 views

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Education Qatar

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    Elizabeth Sick on 15 Mar 09
     
    A website about Education City, a compound in Doha, Qatar, where students are able to study at six prominent American Universities, while staying at home in an environment culturally acceptable.
Ed Webb

Education - Change.org: What's Really Important: Adult Advice to High School Students #1 - 0 views

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  • Ed Webb
    Ed Webb on 11 Mar 09
     
    Great post by Clay. I encourage you not only to read and think about this post, but to respond to it, too.
Ed Webb

Clinton Announces Million-Dollar Scholarship Program for Palestinian Students - C... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 09 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced a new million-dollar scholarship program to help Palestinian students enroll at Palestinian and American universities.
  • “a larger pool of capable young men and women from places like the West Bank and Gaza”
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