Skip to main content

Home/ OZ/NZ educators/ Group items tagged smart

Rss Feed Group items tagged

2More

'You better be proud!' | The Australian - 0 views

  • There is no doubt that if our children had been met in high school by a team who got what strong and smart was all about, then who knows what exciting trajectory those students might have been on after another six years of stronger smarter schooling?
  •  
    "ON my first day as principal of Cherbourg State School it was freezing and windy. I decided to wear a tie, thinking that if kids at other schools see their principal wearing a tie, then these kids deserve to see their principal dressed up nice, too. I parked my car in the designated spot and took a few breaths, sizing up the situation that I was in charge of now. There were some kids sitting around in the sun trying to get warm, while others were running around and playing cricket."
1More

Smart Move - 0 views

  •  
    Way To Success doesn't simply happen on the grounds that you anticipate that it will in the event that you stick around sufficiently long, it happens ONLY when you make it so...
1More

10 reasons the shift may happen faster than you think | Getting Smart - 7 views

  •  
    While it's no secret that there seems to be more use and reliance on digital and blended learning with each passing semester, a transition may be happening faster than you think writes Tom Vander Ark. At a conference he talked about a dozen of the factors accelerating the shift to digital learning:
6More

Kids robbed of playtime in pursuit of academic excellence - 3 views

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • It's like feeding children on vitamins instead of real food
  • Xander, my older son, hated kindy," the 37-year-old said. "He was bursting into tears
  •  
    FEARFUL parents are unnecessarily sending pre-schoolers to early learning classes to give them an academic edge.
4More

The Rise of Generation C: Implications for the World of 2020 - 5 views

  • the Internet will evolve into a largely "centerless" cloud with no obvious control points.
  • The "smart pipe," an intelligent communication infrastructure, will be at the heart of many new value pools in industries as diverse as healthcare, energy, transportation, and media.
  •  
    "In the course of the next 10 years, a new generation-Generation C-will emerge. Born after 1990, these "digital natives," just now beginning to attend university and enter the work- force, will transform the world as we know it. Their interests will help drive massive change in how people around the world socialize, work, and live their passions-and in the information and communication technologies they use to do so."
  •  
    "In the course of the next 10 years, a new generation-Generation C-will emerge. Born after 1990, these "digital natives," just now beginning to attend university and enter the work- force, will transform the world as we know it. Their interests will help drive massive change in how people around the world socialize, work, and live their passions-and in the information and communication technologies they use to do so."
1More

100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers | Smart Teaching - 0 views

  •  
    100 YouTube videos that can provide supplementary information for the class, give inspiration, help you keep control of class and even provide a few laughs here and there.
1More

10 Infographics for Learning | Getting Smart - 7 views

  •  
    "We all love infographics. Why? Well, they help us grasp information in a quick and fun way that appeals to our visual senses. In fact, there's an infographic here explaining that. Below you'll find 10 infographics that discuss learning in many different capacities - online, blended, mobile, etc."
« First ‹ Previous 81 - 100 of 113 Next ›
Showing 20 items per page