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paul lowe

A report says universities' use of virtual technologies is 'patchy' | Education | The G... - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...computer-science-it

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  • paul lowe on 12 May 09
     
    The "Google generation" of today's students has grown up in a digital world. Most are completely au fait with the microblogging site Twitter; they organise their social lives through Facebook and MySpace; 75% of students have a profile on at least one social networking site. And they spend up to four hours a day online. Modern students are happy to share and participate but are prone to impatience - being used to quick answers - and are casual about evaluating information and attributing it, and also about legal and copyright issues. With almost weekly developments in technology and research added to increasingly web-savvy students' expectations, how are British universities keeping up? Pretty well, according to Sir David Melville, chair of Lifelong Learning UK and author of a new report into how students' use of new technologies will affect higher education.
Paul Welsh

Be Very Afraid - 0 views

www.heppell.net/default.htm

media technology resources tools

shared by Paul Welsh on 25 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Paul Welsh on 25 Apr 09
     
    look at how British students are using tech in the classroom
BJ Madewell

Accelerated Learning - Michael Tipper - Index - Project HappyChild - 69 views

www.happychild.org.uk/...index.htm

mnemonics ed220

shared by BJ Madewell on 24 Feb 11 - Cached
  • BJ Madewell on 24 Feb 11
     
    Just "muck" around in this British resource - mnemonics, reading and soooo much more
Martin Burrett

Doorway Till We Meet Again - 27 views

www.doorwayonline.org.uk/tillwemeet.html

maths money

shared by Martin Burrett on 26 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 26 Aug 11
     
    A well designed maths money resource which uses British coins and notes. Find the correct change to give to the customer. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Martin Burrett

UK Parliament - Education - 15 views

www.parliament.uk/education

citizenship government parliament

shared by Martin Burrett on 06 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 06 Oct 11
     
    A helpful website which explains how the British Westminster Parliament works. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
Martin Burrett

Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square! - 66 views

schools.geograph.org.uk

British photo Geography photography photos map maps

shared by Martin Burrett on 13 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 13 Nov 11
     
    An unbelievable site with a landscape photo from every square kilometre of the UK. Browse the photos and submit your own. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
Roland Gesthuizen

Watch a kid assemble a computer in minutes - Quibly - 51 views

quib.ly/...assemble-a-computer-in-minutes

Quib.ly RaspberryPi blog CS4HS

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 18 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 18 Dec 13
     
    "Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google was so taken with Pis (and so horrified by the lack of computer programming currently being taught) that he donated a barrel load of them to British schools. Raspberry Pi is now one of the most talked about products on Quibly and one of the most frequently purchased through our store."
Kay Bradley

Population Control, Marauder Style - NYTimes.com - 73 views

www.nytimes.com/...on-control-marauder-style.html

population marauders death rate war casualties nytimes

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  • Kay Bradley on 06 Nov 11
     
    Compare death rates from Mideast slave trade, Famines in British India, World Wars I and II, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong, Atlantic slave trade . . . at the bottom of the graphic there's a table translating figures into % of world population at the time they occurred. Astounding!
Martin Burrett

Oxford Dictionaries Spelling Challenge - 73 views

blog.oxforddictionaries.com/...spelling-bee-2011

spelling English games

shared by Martin Burrett on 04 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Apr 12
     
    A great spelling resource from the Oxford English Dictionary. Listen to words and try to spell them at three levels of difficulty. Choose between British and US spelling. Play full screen at http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/media/spelling-bee-2011/SpellingContest.swf http://j.mp/HBnIw6 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Martin Burrett

Google Museum of the World - 86 views

ukedchat.com/...google-museum-of-the-world

Google history museum artefacts world

shared by Martin Burrett on 19 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 19 Apr 16
     
    A superb site from Google and the British museum. An interactive timeline of interconnected historical objects from all over the world. Click on them to view details.
Martin Burrett

Physical activity in lessons improves students' attainment - 8 views

ukedchat.com/...physical-activity-lessons

research PE physical activity

shared by Martin Burrett on 12 Nov 19 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 12 Nov 19
     
    "Students who take part in physical exercises like star jumps or running on the spot during school lessons do better in tests than peers who stick to sedentary learning, according to a UCL-led study. The meta-analysis of 42 studies around the world, published in British Journal of Sports Medicine, aimed to assess the benefits of incorporating physical activity in academic lessons. This approach has been adopted by schools seeking to increase activity levels among students without reducing academic teaching time."
Enid Baines

Top 10 Ways to Wake-up Students in Class - SimpleK12 - 51 views

blog.simplek12.com/...op-10-ways-to-wake-up-students

GRR teaching resources resources

shared by Enid Baines on 24 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • . Require students to give answers in their best British accent.
  • Have Chuck Norris randomly appear in one of your Power Points roundhouse kicking a wolf. For some reason, students are obsessed with him.
  • Play a sound clip of the Mission Impossible theme, have them act as 007 until the music stops. Then, whoever they end up next to, that is their partner for the activity
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  • Place random discussion or reading comprehension questions on sticky notes underneath a handful of desks. When you are ready to ask questions, ask them to peek and read-aloud the questions.
Catherine Hainstock

http://www.classicalcomics.com/education/FreeDownloads/DulceEtDecorumEst.pdf - 3 views

www.classicalcomics.com/...DulceEtDecorumEst.pdf

war history WWI poet British poison gas warfare

shared by Catherine Hainstock on 15 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Catherine Hainstock on 15 Jan 13
     
    FREE DOWNLOAD: PDF Comic Wilfred Owen's poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" from Classical Comics. Perfect for using in English class or history of WWI. 
Steven Young

Demography and the Future of Secularism - Boston.com - 1 views

articles.boston.com/...edim-ultra-orthodox-secularism

demography religion religious fundamentalism secularism

shared by Steven Young on 25 May 12 - No Cached
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      Steven Young on 25 May 12
       
      The American Enterprise Institute is one of the leading conservative think tanks. The AEI, and the conservative movement in general, have an interest in a more religious population, since religious voters are more likely to vote Republican and for conservative parties elsewhere in the world. Therefore, one needs to skeptical of research emanating from a think tank with a strong ideological bias; especially when that research serves the interests of the institution.
  • Across the world, "population change is reversing secularism and shifting the center of gravity of entire societies in a conservative religious direction." The same will be true here in the United States, where religious families have more children than non-religious ones.
  • It's easy to underestimate the role that population change can have in social change, Kaufmann says, but it can have a huge role, especially when differences in values drive differences in fertility
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  • -- demographer
  • Americans and Europeans
  • Americans and European
  • the fringe of ultra-Orthodox pupils in Israel's Jewish primary schools in 1960 has ballooned: they now comprise a third of the Jewish first grade class. They are gaining power: in Jerusalem, Haredim rioted in late December, demanding the right to segregate women on buses, and have already elected the city's first Haredi mayor.
  • the ultra-Orthodox may form a majority of observant American and British Jews by 2050
  • In the United States, Republicans have a similar values-driven fertility advantage -- an advantage, Kaufmann argues, which will outweigh the Democratic advantage of increased immigration, in part because many immigrants are conservative on social issues and maximalist in their family planning.
  • "In Seattle, there are nearly 45 percent more dogs than children. In Salt Lake City, there are nearly 19 percent more kids than dogs.”
  • Steven Young on 25 May 12
     
    Summary of article from the American Enterprise Institute journal, "The American", that claims that future of the U.S. is more religious than secular due to the large family size of religious fundamentalists.
Lucas Cittadino

World Class - What is World Class? - 42 views

www.bbc.co.uk/15335556

free education interactive flat global

shared by Lucas Cittadino on 29 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • BBC World Class helps UK schools to twin with schools around the globe as part of its educational legacy for the 2012 Olympics. Our mission is to support teachers in developing school-to-school partnerships, encouraging pupils to share creative work inspired by the Olympics. World Class encourages and helps children and schools get their stories on-air and online across the BBC. We provide the inspiration and resources to help teachers bring their projects to life through reports, blogs and features. Schools can also use our wealth of assembly resources - film clips, scripts and discussion ideas - on topics inspired both by the Olympics and international stories. The Schools World Service provides stories every month for schools to share. We work in partnership with the British Council and other organisations outside the BBC which facilitate school twinning. BBC World Class offers support and advice to help schools twin successfully.
ingramhistory

BBC News - Iran: EU oil sanctions 'unfair' and 'doomed to fail' - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-europe-16693484

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      ingramhistory on 23 Jan 12
       
      Read and answer this question
  • Iran had "failed to restore international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear programme", British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a joint statement.
Kenuvis Romero

The Art of Memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...The_Art_of_Memory

shared by Kenuvis Romero on 23 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • The Art of Memory From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the general topic known as "Ars memoriae" or "the Art of Memory", see Art of memory. The Art of Memory Author(s) Frances A. Yates Country United Kingdom Language English Publisher Routledge and Kegan Paul Publication date 1966 Media type Print (book) Pages 400 ISBN 0-226-95001-8 OCLC Number 42905743  Preceded by Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition The Art of Memory is a 1966 non-fiction book by British historian Frances A. Yates. The book follows the history of mnemonic systems from the classical period of Simonides of Ceos in Ancient Greece to the Renaissance era of Giordano Bruno, ending with Gottfried Leibniz and the early emergence of the scientific method in the 17th century. See also [edit] Method of loci John Crowley Art of Memory
Clint Heitz

Teenagers and grammar | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC - 68 views

www.teachingenglish.org.uk/...teenagers-grammar

grammar English teaching

shared by Clint Heitz on 11 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Clint Heitz on 11 Nov 13
     
    Tips and links on how to teach teenagers grammar in a more engaging way.
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