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Teachers Without Borders

French parents to boycott homework | World news | guardian.co.uk - 4 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 28 Mar 12
     
    A group of French parents and teachers have called for a two-week boycott of homework in schools, saying it is useless, tiring and reinforces inequalities between children. They say homework pushes the responsibility for learning on parents and causes rows between themselves and their children. And they conclude children would be better off reading a book.
Alice Barr

Directory of E-Learning Tools: Course Authoring Tools - 1 views

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Tools_Apps e-learning InstructionalSupport web2.0tools

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  • Alice Barr on 17 Oct 10
     
    "These tools include authoring tools as well as as delivery/tracking platforms like course and learning management systems. "
Emily Vickery

Tuckman; Forming - Storming - Norming - Perfoming - 0 views

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pd tuckman

shared by Emily Vickery on 16 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Tuckman's theory focuses on the way in which a team tackles a task from the initial formation of the team through to the completion of the project. Tuckman later added a fifth phase; Adjourning and Transforming to cover the finishing of a task.
Teachers Without Borders

Warning to parents over children 'being raised online' | Society | The Guardian - 0 views

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shared by Teachers Without Borders on 02 Jun 08 - Cached
  • British children are spending more than 20 hours a week online, most of it at social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, and are in effect being "raised online", according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research.
  • British children are spending more than 20 hours a week online, most of it at social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, and are in effect being "raised online", according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research.
  • The research reinforces the belief of big online brands that social networking sites are the way to get advertisers in front of the lucrative youth market
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  • the lack of awareness among parents about what their children are doing on the internet.
  • "My mum will ask sometimes 'Is it safe?' but she doesn't really know," a 16-year-old girl told the IPPR. A 14-year-old boy added that even the sort of child-locks that are put on internet access at school can be circumvented by youngsters, who often know more about IT systems than their teachers. "We have restrictions at school but we can just get an administrator's account and take them off."
  • Children are also aware of the restrictions that the sites implement, with one 15-year-old girl telling researchers: "Everyone lies about their age 'cos I think it's like if you're under 18, your profile gets set to private."
  • The report suggests there is a lot of work to be done in educating parents about what their children are doing online. Ofcom already looks at the level of what it terms media literacy among consumers, but the IPPR wants the Department for Children, Schools and Families to have overall control of media literacy, with better information and support for parents
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