Some schools and teachers are also contributing to a sense that children are "failing" kindergarten, and becoming anxious about how they would perform in NAPLAN tests
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Kids robbed of playtime in pursuit of academic excellence - 3 views
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There is a perception we need to hurry up and get them smart. With the pressure to get literacy rates up implies what is happening in kindy is not good enough so we need to do more to hurry them up
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It's robbing children of their childhood and parents are wasting their money as children are not developmentally ready at that age for formal learning
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FEARFUL parents are unnecessarily sending pre-schoolers to early learning classes to give them an academic edge.
Reflection from International Conference on Thinking ICOT - 0 views
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If we teach our children to think then they will do better on the test and they will do better in life. This was one of the clear messages delivered by the presenters at the International Conference on Thinking (ICOT) in Bilbao, Spain.
Another Brick in the Wall - 3 views
myfuture MyGuide testing - 2 views
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e-learning: The Future of Education?? - 3 views
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contestable assumptions that are worth discussing. The first is that of a standard courseware development template based on one or a limited number of pedagogical approaches. The second is that knowledge provision equates to learning. The final issue relates to the first two (indeed all three are inter-related) and is his apparent oversight of the current Personal Learning Environment (PLE) discussions and literature.
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When a learner learns to construct their own PLE, they themselves construct the learning modules to suit their own requirements.
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His ideas on "Learning Camps" and 24 hour access to school learning centres are excellent as is what he calls 'Confidence-Based Learning" where testing is an integral part of student learning diagnostics and formative feedback.
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traditional notions of education are not coping with the content explosion generated by the rise of the knowledge economy
Wiggio - Makes it easy to work in groups. - 0 views
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Wiggio lets you use the following group tools, and it’s all for free! Messages— send mass text messages, voice messages and emails from wiggio Calendar— keep a shared group calendar that will send you text message reminders before all your meetings, practices, rehearsals, games and other events Poll—survey your entire group and get their responses as they answer Folder— dump all your groups’ files into one folder and never send another attachment Meetings— never walk 15 minutes through the snow to get to a 10 minute meeting again… setup free conference calls and web chats on Wiggio Links— keep a shared favorites folder
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This seems to have a more intuitive feel as compared to the likes of yahoo groups and google groups. Will be testing it out with a class.
Web2Access - 0 views
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This resource aims to help those making decisions about their use of freely available 'Web 2.0' interactive and collaborate e-learning tools. Each product, site or service described in these pages can be searched or browsed by a specific Activity or the usability/accessibility checks that it passed. The applications have short descriptions and comments regarding their ease of use and functionality. If you are involved in teaching and learning and are wanting to make more use of Web 2.0 services in your e-learning activities, or if you are interested in how Web 2.0 can supplement your existing methods, this section may be useful to you.
Student tests face hi-tech overhaul | Australian IT - 0 views
Sylvia Martinez ACEC 2010 Keynote | Mr P's Test Blog - 8 views
My School - 3 views
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A profile of almost 10,000 Australian school to help search for schools compare statistically similar schools, view school-level NAPLAN results, identify schools that are doing well and share successful strategies. This service is designed to support acce
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Aim of this website is to quickly locate statistical and contextual information about schools and compare them with statistically similar schools across Australia.
A School Built For Mobile Learning - 3 views
Facebook can serve as personality test › News in Science (ABC Science) - 1 views
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"Companies who want to know more about prospective employees can learn a lot by checking their Facebook profiles, according to a new study. Jennifer Golbeck and colleagues at the University of Maryland surveyed the public profiles of nearly 300 Facebook users for information about their favourite activities, TV shows, movies, music, books, quotes, and membership in political or other organisations. They also looked at the "About Me" and "blurb" sections. The work did not include status updates or other data that is only available to users' online friends."
The centrality of leadership in 21st century schools « 21st Century Learning - 3 views
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ideally place students at the centre of learning.
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so why is there comparitively little public access to this student voice? Has it in fact been recorded, collated, analysed, surveyed in sufficient depth? Or is this "student as the centre" relying on testing evidence as its main litmus?
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ideally place students at the centre of learning.
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