An overview of ImmersED estate - a Open SImulator sim for educators to learn about the use of virtual worlds in education by actively engaging in learning exercises there. open and available for testing - please come by and kick the tyres! Built in OpenSim, hosted on ReacitonGrid.

A student's view on national standardised tests

"Your writing partner, helping you write a story from beginning to THE END"

Curriculum related to the use of Second Life with 9 different levels of attainment and different modules in each one. Available under a CC license. 

US states spurred by the promise of $350 million in Race to the Top money for improved tests-as well as an opportunity to strengthen bids for part of the federal fund's larger $4 billion pot are scrambling to join consortia to develop common assessments.

Articulated Instruction Module or AIM, was designed by a longtime school system employee, Baltimore County school administrators have ordered all teachers to begin using it. AIM will require teachers to judge whether each of their students has mastered more than 100 specific skills.

Formative Assessment, assessing student performance routinely as instruction unfolds can transform teaching and learning. Writer actively experimented with giving more feedback to my students, using rubrics, models of student work, and having students assess their own work as well as that of their peers. Problem is Baltimore County school administrators have ordered all teachers to begin using a grading system next month that will require them to judge whether each of their students has mastered more than 100 specific skills. Elementary school teachers have classes of 25 kids while highschool teachers can have more than 100 students. Over the course of a year, many teachers would have to make as many as 10,000 marks indicating whether a child had learned a task.

Moodle training is coming to an Australian city near you - check the dates

A National Curriculum is all well and good, but many unanswered questions hang over its implementation across the country, writes Annabel Astbury

Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Foundation about young people's media use. The report is based on a survey conducted between October 2008 and May 2009 among a nationally representative sample of 2,002 3rd-12th grade students ages 8-18, including a self-selected subsample of 702 respondents who completed seven-day media use diaries, which were used to calculate multitasking proportions.

A 9-yearold shares her building experience in OpenSim. You really have NO excuses for not getting in and exploring virtual worlds...

Chapter of virtual worlds - straightforward, well written, worth a read!

Save $ and don't get locked into proprietary software by buying a Kindle - a smarter option is coming to the hardware you already have.

Students share what makes the ideal school

Grafedia is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content - images, video, sound files, and so forth. It can be written anywhere - on walls, in the streets, or on sidewalks. Grafedia can also be written in letters or postcards, on the body as tattoos, or anywhere you feel like putting it. Viewers "click" on these grafedia hyperlinks with their cell phones by sending a message addressed to the word + "@grafedia.net" to get the content behind the link.

Geocaching is the free high-tech treasure hunt where you use your GPS receiver to find caches hidden by other players. It's a great way to be outdoors, enjoy the environment and the revel in the thrill of the hunt!

Throughout the course of my research we explored a great many tools and applications for mobile phones, in particular the ability to blend learning experiences from both inside and outside the classroom. However the area that my research specifically sought to explore was the impact 'any-time' access to information would have on the classroom.