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Website full of visual resources for developing literacy - 3 views

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  • International Teacher Certificate on 30 May 13
     
    Designed for elementary school teachers - designed to promote discussion. Rich visual resources
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Evolution and religion: In the beginning | The Economist - 0 views

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  • THE “Atlas of Creation” runs to 770 pages and is lavishly illustrated with photographs of fossils and living animals, interlaced with quotations from the Koran. Its author claims to prove not only the falsehood of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, but the links between “Darwinism” and such diverse evils as communism, fascism and terrorism.
  • The mass distribution of a French version of the “Atlas” (already published in English and Turkish) typifies the style of an Istanbul publishing house whose sole business is the dissemination, in many languages, of scores of works by a single author, a charismatic but controversial Turkish preacher who writes as Harun Yahya but is really called Adnan Oktar.
  • Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the world's 80m Anglicans, has dismissed literal readings of the Creation story in Genesis as a “category mistake”.
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  • A much more nuanced critique, not of Darwin himself but of secular world-views based on Darwin's ideas, has been advanced by Pope Benedict XVI, the conservative Bavarian who assumed the most powerful office in the Christian world two years ago.
  • In Kenya, for example, there is a bitter controversy over plans to put on display the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human being ever found, a figure known as Turkana Boy—along with a collection of fossils, some of which may be as much as 200m years old.
  • Rows over religion and reason are also raging in Russia.
  • As these examples from around the world show, the debate over creation, evolution and religion is rapidly going global. Until recently, all the hottest public arguments had taken place in the United States, where school boards in many districts and states tried to restrict the teaching of Darwin's idea that life in its myriad forms evolved through a natural process of adaptation to changing conditions.
  • the case made by the “intelligent design” camp: the idea that some features of the natural world can be explained only by the direct intervention of a ingenious creator.
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Education for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage the World - 0 views

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    Veronica Boix Mansilla's and Anthony Jackson's book "Educating For Global Competencies: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World" is an excellent resource for internationally-minded teachers. The Asia Society is doing some really interesting work in education for global competencies, which they define as "the capacity and disposition to understand and act on issues of global significance." This book articulates how teachers and schools can graduate globally competent students, as well as the skills and knowledge students need in the 21st century. From the book's introduction, "Globally competent individuals are aware, curious, and interested in learning about the world and how it works. They can use the big ideas, tools, methods, and languages that are central to any discipline (mathematics, literature, history, science, and the arts) to engage the pressing issues of our time. They deploy and develop this expertise as they investigate such issues, recognizing multiple perspectives, communicating their views effectively, and taking action to improve conditions." The chapter on teaching for global competencies is particularly valuable. It tries to answer the questions, "What does quality teaching for global competence look like?" and "How can teachers design instruction to foster global competence among their students?" The book can be downloaded for free via the Asia Society: http://asiasociety.org/files/book-globalcompetence.pdf
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