Setting out to inspire adult learners. Pedagogy, technology and life-long learning from outside the institution. This week, we offer some general examples for ways to improve education using game design techniques. 
In January 2010, the Cooney Center, in collaboration with the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, convened a Digital Age Teacher Preparation Council, co-chaired by Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University and Michael H... 
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Aimed at teachers and those interested in using games with an educational intent, this handbook aims to provide some useful anchoring points for educators to make sense of the area and to develop practical approaches to the use of computer games as a medium for learning. 
Needs analysis is the basis for a good educational programme and should be the foundation stone for any curriculum development activity. 
Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. The search for truth should be the central focus of learning and schools. Deep reading and deep thinking are dual processors which inform such a search and lead us toward insight and illumination. 
The term “digital literacy” is often invoked by technology cheerleaders and promoters as part of their “rapid change” mantra. Things are moving so fast, the argument goes, that we need 21st -century skills and digital classrooms, digital schools and digital frames of mind. 
Americans appear to be reading less for fun, and as that happens, their reading test scores are declining, according to a new report by the National Endowment for the Arts. 
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. 
The explosion of the internet has brought with it an amazing mass of information so how will historians in the digital age decide what is important? |
Assessment is not a spreadsheet -- it's a conversation. 
The work of Lev Vygotsky has become the foundation of much research and theory in developmental and child psychology. 
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Have you heard about the octopus who lives in a tree? In 2005, researchers at the University of Connecticut asked a group of seventh graders to read a website full of information about the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, or Octopus paxarbolis. Via tricias Our ICT curriculum has been re-written over the last six months. It had remained largely unchanged since I first took over the subject in 2005. I'd played with a few of the units, but over the last couple of years, I'd come to the conclusion that the subject as a whole was feeling tired and outdated. 
Promoting literacy to children in the home environment is instrumental to their future emotional, social, and academic success. While reading may not seem to stretch across a variety of dimensions, it is an integral part of children's lives. Literacy provides children with a sound emotional structure that encourages a sense of self-worth and well-being. 
As some of you may know, I got my undergraduate degree in Greek and Latin Classics. So when Forbes asked me to do an interview on the subject of how my Classical education had affected my business career, I agreed. 
Gathered around a classroom computer monitor, three students are exploring the Internet — a global network linking them to vast databases, immense archives, rich art collections and millions of users.
Is this a good thing for schools? 
Is the Internet the enemy of reading, or has it created a new kind of reading, one that society should not discount? 
As the school year begins, be ready to hear pundits fretting once again about how kids today can't write—and technology is to blame. Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into "bleak, bald, sad shorthand". An age of illiteracy is at hand, right? 
Campaigners say the UK needs more language graduates to help it emerge from the economic downturn. |
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