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INEE | Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies - 0 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 07 Apr 11
     
    This e-learning module uses the example of the Darfur refugee crisis to demonstrate how the Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response, Recovery-the foundational tool of the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)-can be used as a framework for designing quality education programmes in conflict-induced situations.  Throughout this module, you will watch short video clips, look at photographs, and read relevant articles and reports.  A series of questions will help you understand how the INEE Minimum Standards can be used to improve the quality of education assistance.
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Visible Knowledge Project Home Page - 0 views

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  • The Visible Knowledge Project (VKP) is a five-year project aimed at improving the quality of college and university teaching through a focus on both student learning and faculty development in technology-enhanced environments. The Project involves over 70 faculty from 21 campuses nationwide.
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Guided Instruction - 0 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 30 Dec 10
     
    Guided Instruction: How to Develop Confident and Successful Learners
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Shortage of Special Education Teachers Includes Their Teachers - On Special Education -... - 1 views

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  • Four years of study by the organization found that job prospects and job security for special education doctorates remain high and stable. But despite the economy and the outlook for jobs in other fields, the demand for special education faculty continues to outstrip the supply. Aside from training new special education teachers, special education faculty conduct the kind of research that informs instruction, so the lack of faculty is a double whammy, the study found. in addition, the training of special education teachers is becoming more complex. Some programs now include instruction about multitiered interventions, such as response to intervention; differentiated instruction; and universal design for learning.
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Educational Leadership:Promoting Respectful Schools: Creating a Climate of Respect - 0 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 30 Sep 11
     
    "School climate reform means measuring the level of respect and then using that information to improve the quality of school life."
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Writing and practitioner inquiry: Thinking relationally - 0 views

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  • Reid envisions teachers as reflexive “inquirers into professional practice who question their routine practices and assumptions”.
  • His vision appreciates the value and possibilities of practitioner inquiry for enhancing an individual’s knowledge and professional learning, while also generating knowledge and capacity for professional communities.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 25 Mar 08
     
    The value of practitioner inquiry as contribution to individual knowledge and as a generator of knowledge for professional communities.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 25 Mar 08
     
    Graham Parr (Monash University, Australia)
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Ken Robinson: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative - Shelfari - 0 views

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  • 'Ken Robinson writes brilliantly about the different ways in which creativity is undervalued and ignored in Western culture and especially in our educational systems.' JOHN CLEESE
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Pearson Foundation: Empowering the 21st Century Superintendent - 0 views

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  • In March, 2008, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) launched a new initiative dedicated to helping superintendents, aspiring superintendents and district leadership teams build their knowledge, skills and confidence as effective technology leaders.
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Harnessing Innovation to Support Student Success: Using Technology to Personalize Educa... - 0 views

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  • Harnessing Innovation to Support Student Success: Using Technology to Personalize Education
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BTW, teen writing may cause teachers to :( - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • It's a teachable moment," said Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist at Pew. "If you find that in a child's or student's writing, that's an opportunity to address the differences between formal and informal writing. They learn to make the distinction ... just as they learn not to use slang terms in formal writing.
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      Teachers Without Borders on 25 Apr 08
       
      It's also a great opportunity for teachers who use blogging in their classes. At the same time, I don't think discouraging informal writing is the right thing to do. Students should have the freedom to use the kind of language they feel is most appropriate given their audience and content. Teaching to adjust one's voice based on audience is therefore crucial.
  • Teens who consider electronic communications with friends as "writing" are more likely to carry the informal elements into school assignments than those who distinguish the two.
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      Teachers Without Borders on 25 Apr 08
       
      I'd be interested to learn how many teachers use emoticons or other informal elements when writing on blogs or communicating with students outside of formal class assignments. For example, do teachers use informal elements when leaving comments on student blogs. Shouldn't they if they want to be seen as readers rather than evaluators?
  • Teens who keep blogs are more likely to engage in personal writing. They also tend to believe that writing will prove crucial to their eventual success in life. Parents are more likely than teenagers to believe that Internet-based writing such as e-mail and instant messaging affects writing overall, though both groups are split on whether the electronic communications help or hurt. Nonetheless, 73 percent of teens and 40 percent of parents said they believe Internet writing makes no difference either way.
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      Teachers Without Borders on 25 Apr 08
       
      If the teacher models informal and formal writing well then this kind of informal writing is not likely to affect students' grasp of formal writing. However, the freedom to use informal, expressive writing might help students develop a stronger sense of voice in all kinds of written work, leading to improved confidence.
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Virtual classroom project coming to a close « Learn Online - 0 views

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  • learning about architecture, sustainability, and SL rendering.
  • The simplicity in learning the drawing tools, coupled with the ability to meet numbers of other people in the actual model who would then discuss and help me build the model was a very potent learning experience.
  • people who would be there for me, who would look at and discuss my drawings as I did them, and who would share with me links and other information relating to what I was doing for the simple enjoyment of sharing and helping.
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  • It doesn’t matter if the ideas I had - or the way I was trying to express them were any good or not.. what I’m talking about is the need we all have for encouragement and motivation to improve on and further our own learning. I could have enrolled in a course and paid a teacher to give me that … attention, but even then it would have felt disingenuous and limited by what that one teacher could muster after 20 years of putting up with it.
  • This amazing project that Konrad has taken me on boils down to is this: I have drawn a concept for a building I want to one day build, using Second Life and its communities to draw and develop the model. I have used numerous online networks to research and inform the model, and this drawing is only one step in many for this long term plan I have. That network has given me the motivation to take it all further. In the process I have learned a lot about sustainable building, drawing in SL, communicating with online networks beyond my normal peers, and in that I have gained new confidence. Now I am coming to an end with the VirtualClassroomProject, having reached the limitations of the model in SL Jokaydia, and want to take it further. I have made numerous attempts to connect with a local group who are developing sustainable building designs, but what was that I said about powering down? I think it will turn out that I will install the model somewhere more permanently in SL and continue to tweak the model, make variations and details, do a costing analysis for a real build, develop a website for it, and continue to try and find useful contacts who I can work with and possibly take something like this further - no doubt I will find them online… I already have one lead in Melbourne!
  • this project has helped me to render my private and two dimensional ideas into a public and socially supportive domain.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 03 May 08
     
    "polished, finished, packed with closure" - these are important words for educators in SL because the environment offers the opposite of that - it encourages creativity and makes it easy to engage in the process of constructing spaces.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 03 May 08
     
    Leigh Blackall reflects on his virtual residency in the Virtual Classroom Project
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Creating a learning space for real life, in second life, in under 1 month « L... - 0 views

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  • As for a learning space, I want to put some thought into what would be feasible in a local community today.. I’m not sure if it will be a space for an Institution yet. But I’m looking for efficient use of space and resources; space design that is conducive to inquiry learning and skills training; and with every single aspect serving some form of opportunity for learning.
  • Real life needs so much work, it is so wanting of good ideas implemented, and almost impossible to get new ideas tested! So, my design will focus mainly on innovations for real life, that include room for Second Life too.
  • e needs so much work, it is so wanting of good ideas implemented, and almost impossible to ge
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Warning to parents over children 'being raised online' | Society | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • 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 lack of awareness among parents about what their children are doing on the internet.
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  • 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
  • "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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