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We live in an increasingly risk-averse culture, where many children's behaviour is constrained. We raise them and educate them "in captivity" because of our anxieties.

British children are spending more than 20 hours a week online, most of it at social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, and are in effect being "raised online", according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research.

Newspaper report of useful UK based study on young peoples use of social networking sites.

BBC trailer - sad that for all of you outside the UK you cant get the full programme. "Are we empowered, connected and enlightened with the world's knowledge at our fingertips? Or distracted and addicted with shorter attention spans? Are our skittering brains bombarded and stupified by the 'yuck and wow' of the web? Is the web really changing us - the way we think, the way we behave, the way relate to each other? And is it for better or for worse?"

"The Tories are planning a return to more academically driven schooling, including setting by ability and traditional subject-based classes, if elected this year"

Macmillan children's books audio, reviews, quizzes and videos. Worth checking out.

"When University College London was founded in the 1820s, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ridiculed it as a "lecture-bazaar": an institution that imparted information but not wisdom. "

Authors experimenting with writing fiction using Twitter

Hallmark one of the Top 10 Schools in Panchkula, guarantee that our understudies turn out to be completely mindful of the significance of keeping themselves perfect and clean. As the understudies invest a large portion of their energy with instructors and associates at school, and with their folks and family at home, we work in organization with the guardians to teach propensities for cleanliness among the understudies.

As guardians and educators, we realize that lunch box is something extremely imperative for the school going children. The lunch box that a student takes to the school isn't only some other box - It's a pack brimming with affection, wellbeing, taste and a considerable measure of astounding recollections, making it one of the most prized possessions of a student's backpack! At the point when the lunch box is so imperative for the kids, it needs to have something uncommon in it consistently! Children frequently gripe of eating same old and exhausting stuff each day in the meal break. It's essential to break the dreariness of the tiffin now and again, and pack it up with some new and energizing nourishment! Here are a couple of crisp thoughts from Hallmark Public School - (the best school in Panchkula) for tiffin-accommodating nourishment for the school students.

"Alternative and contemporary version of the Three Little Pigs from the Guardian newspaper. The story slowly unfolds as new information is produced. Use in lessons to focus on evidence and plot twists."