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Most Relevant Learning Qualifications are usually written by academics. Ours is an industry collaboration, whereby anyone practicing in the advertising industry has the ability to contribute towards the curriculum on our Wiki. This is the first time that any industry has ever collaborated in this way to create a qualification. We believe it to be the future of vocational learning.

Read Alouds are a vital component of the literacy curriculum, yet many autistic children do not respond well to them. Advice on this issue is from the Readers with Autism blog

From Educational Service Unit #3 in Omaha, Nebraska, this wikispace contains numerous tips on getting started, synching and other aspects associated with using iPads as well as listings of apps under curriculum areas.

Google SketchUp is great free software that can be used across the curriculum. This page from RoboHelp contains links to numerous project ideas using the software. For each project shown below, you can view project details in HTML or PDF format.

When does a curriculum unfetter us, and when is it a set of handcuffs? When does a teacher unfetter us? When do our classmates unfetter us? A classroom, or a credit hour system, or an advising system? And so forth. These are very difficult questions indeed, and of course some oppressors believe most sincerely (it seems) that they're keeping handcuffs on for the inmates' own good-and of course Stockholm Syndrome means that sometimes people don't want to lose their fetters, so thoroughly do they identify with their captors.

Creativity in designing schools. "When people talk about how hard it is to change our public schools, they're usually referring to curriculum reform or employment contracts. But there's another area where change is difficult: design. When a proposed school building doesn't look exactly like what folks think a school should look like, officials freeze. "

"Revision is a critical piece of the writing process-and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader's Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way. On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You'll also find a teacher's guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom."

This site has been conceived and is being composed to support the activities of our staff and students, encouraging them to publish content digitally and take time to reflect upon their learning activities. We hope that other interested academics, learners or curriculum support staff will contribute to the content found here. If you fall into one of these groups, please get in touch and let us know how you might be able to contribute. We look forward to sharing the Mahara experience with you.

ICTeD Services offers professional development to schools. It in located in Melbourne, Australia. ICTeD Services specialises in teaching Information and Communication Technology skills to whole schools, to teams of teachers, and to groups of teachers and students learning together. These skills can include the use of digital video, animation, multimedia, Web 2.0 technologies, and website design and can be integrated into a variety of curriculum areas.

Abstract How we go about assessing HE students has such a significant impact on student learning that we need to rethink our whole curriculum design process to foreground assessment.

not been idle. They had been hearing about this new thing called a COMPUTER!

This table by Cheyl Doig shows the relationship between the competencies of the NZ curriculum, what teachers should be enacting to develop these competencies, and how schools/learning communities could be leading staff to be expert role models in these competencies.

Various explanations and solutions have been proposed over the last ten years in relation to the ongoing problem of student lack of engagement with the middle years' curriculum in Australia. Identified contributors to this problem include an irrelevant or trivial curricular focus and ineffectual teaching and learning strategies.

Darren Draper's take on how to implement the Creative Commons into the classroom curriculum.

On line learning courses in a wide range of curriculums for students aged 5 to 12.

problem-based learning is a curriculum development and instructional system that simultaneously develops both problem solving strategies and disciplinary knowledge bases and skills by placing students in the active role of problem solvers

Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning.