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Only 4.6 percent of Chief Academic Officers agreed that there are no significant barriers to widespread adoption of online learning. Nearly two-thirds of the academic leaders cite the need for more discipline on the part of online students as a critical barrier. Faculty issues, both acceptance of online and the need for greater time and effort to teach online, are also important barriers. Neither a perceived lack of demand on the part of potential students nor the acceptance of an online degree by potential employers was seen as a critical barrier.
Department for Children, Schools and Families : Byron Review - 0 views
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Published 27th March 2008 On 6th September 2007, the Prime Minister asked me to conduct an independent review looking at the risks to children from exposure to potentially harmful or inappropriate material on the internet and in video games.
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Surprising outbreak of common sense from uk govt education dept publishing report of ed.psych. Dr Tanya Byron -- I will blog more when I have read all xx pages of it.
ISTE | Project-Based Learning - 0 views
What Reading Does for the Mind - 0 views
Education Report: Comparing International Systems - 0 views
Gender stereotypes in school text books - 4 views
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If you flip through school text books, one thing that strikes you at the very first glance is gender stereotypes. At a time when the nation is proud of its women citizens for conquering every male bastion one after another in almost every field, the writers and illustrators of these school text books seem to be oblivious of the reality or who knows they are votaries of male supremacy.
Better Health Channel image library - 8 views
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Nice mediacl infographies. The Better Health Channel website was founded in 1999 by the Victorian Government, Australia as a consumer health information website for the Victorian community. It is now Australia's most popular health and medical website. The site's aim has always been to provide free health and medical information in an easy to understand format and language.
AFT - Publications - American Educator - 2 views
Comparing ICT use in education across countries | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education - 7 views
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we still do not have reliable, globally comparable data in this area
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basic answers to many basic questions about the use of technology in schools around the world remain largely unanswered
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Recent World Bank technical assistance related to ICT use in education has highlighted the fact that internationally comparable data related to ICT use in education do not exist -- and that this absence is a problem
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What Makes a Great Teacher? - The Atlantic (January/February 2010) - 10 views
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What did predict success, interestingly, was a history of perseverance—not just an attitude, but a track record.
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But another trait seemed to matter even more. Teachers who scored high in “life satisfaction”—reporting that they were very content with their lives—were 43 percent more likely to perform well in the classroom than their less satisfied colleagues.
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In general, though, Teach for America’s staffers have discovered that past performance—especially the kind you can measure—is the best predictor of future performance. Recruits who have achieved big, measurable goals in college tend to do so as teachers.
Horizon Report 2010 K-12 Wiki - 8 views
Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War - PowerPoint - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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In General McMaster’s view, PowerPoint’s worst offense is not a chart like the spaghetti graphic, which was first uncovered by NBC’s Richard Engel, but rigid lists of bullet points (in, say, a presentation on a conflict’s causes) that take no account of interconnected political, economic and ethnic forces.
Study Shows Students Are Addicted to Social Media | News | Communications of the ACM - 4 views
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most college students are not just unwilling, but functionally unable to be without their media links to the world. "I clearly am addicted and the dependency is sickening," says one person in the study. "I feel like most people these days are in a similar situation, for between having a Blackberry, a laptop, a television, and an iPod, people have become unable to shed their media skin."
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what they wrote at length about was how they hated losing their personal connections. Going without media meant, in their world, going without their friends and family
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they couldn't connect with friends who lived close by, much less those far away
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2010 Horizon Report: The K12 Edition - 5 views
2009 Horizon Report - 2 views
2009 Horizon Report: The K12 Edition - 2 views
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