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Through same day loans, you will never have any trouble sorting out monetary issues that come up all of a sudden. The loans are made available to almost all the applicants and the best possible way to derive the loans would be to apply online.

There are 37 lessons, falling into the eight key 'Learning Areas' identified in the modern curriculum, complete with background notes, outcomes, supplementary material and activities, all tied into exciting aspects of the expedition to create a memorable and motivating way to learn.

How come this is going on LIVE now: http://www.1000hourday.com/ with educational materials here http://www.iinet.net.au/1000hourday/ while the OzProjects site it is linked to says the project finished on May 30?? http://www.ozprojects.edu.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=64 Pretty cool being able to track their position: http://www.exfac.com/1000HourDay/position.php - great opportunity for an authentic learning activity.

I like Negroponte's response to critics of one-to-one laptop programs in the United States which say the computers facilitate more in-class distraction. Basically, "children are distracted if the teaching is not interesting".

Good article with summary list of

Apparently can also be used with bright middle schoolers! yay!

We should evaluate actions, rather than 'knowledge' (where 'knowledge' here means 'remembered instances of data'). We should evaluate actions is that we are able to get at more finely-grained sub-symbolic mental development, and not simply a small set of memorized facts.

Worth considering when thinking about assessment of authentic learning. We should evaluate actions, rather than 'knowledge' (where 'knowledge' here means 'remembered instances of data').

collaborative project ideas for International year of languages

Class blog of the 2008 miniLegends, temporarily closed ... the front page explains more and has over 200 comments of support and dialogue of the broader issues.

Testing Diigo widget on my page plus have highlighted one section.

The handbook is intended to be of use to grassroots practitioners involved in designing new projects and adapting existing ones; to developers designing digital tools and resources; and to funding bodies wanting to ensure robust processes in their supported projects.

Although Bloom's Taxonomy proved useful to teachers and students alike, recent decades gave rise to numerous criticisms, implying that the model was out of date. These criticisms included concerns with setting applicability, contemporary language, and process conceptualization. More recently, Anderson and Krathwohl (2001) have adapted Bloom's model to fit the needs of today's classroom by employing more outcome-oriented language, workable objectives, and changing nouns to active verbs (see "stairs" below). Most notably, knowledge has been converted to remember. In addition, the highest level of development is create rather than evaluate.

I'm thinking of a "conflict in Africa" project and the role of the US need for products. Not good to see Cameroon going down the same path. ...TIA (this is africa)