Post-its on the desktop or Start Screen can be extremely helpful for remembering small but important amounts of information.
Many practitioners and/or learners will prefer to stop cluttering up their desk and go digital.
7 Sticky Notes is an ideal option, for those either running Windows 7 still, or if they’re on Windows 8 but prefer the desktop over the Start Screen.
7 Sticky Notes offers plenty of options for formatting notes and the text within them.
After the installation...
   -  an icon appears in the notification tray (the area in the bottom right corner of your desktop).
   -  Right-clicking the icon provides the option to open a new note.
When a new note is opened, the Note Configuration Window will appear beside it allowing users to change...
   -  the colour of the note,
   -  the font,
   -  font size,
   -  font colour
...and more.
There’s also an option to set alarms.

#finlandia #educacion

Terminas bien Tu Educaciòn?  ..--Finnish Education.

Tener en cuenta... 

We need to create a culture that respects the teaching profession as much as any other as will create our future leaders.

I applaud the approach on education taken by Finland. Staying clear of a content-driven, test-based system is clearly  the way to go based on their success rate! Relying on standardized testing to measure students’ success only demoralizes the ability of the students (especially those who are not good test-takers), and even the teachers since they too are judged and evaluated based on how their students perform. Testing tolerance simply strips children of their confidence and teachers of their ability to creatively teach, and as a result disables children from achieving their maximum potential.

The respect that Finnish teachers have is also drastically different to that of the U.S. where the notorious phrase is, “those can’t do, teach.” The enforcement of educators having a Masters degree and undergoing extensive training for entry and preparation seems to be the reason why that level of respect is upheld. The fact that only one of ten teachers is accepted to teacher colleges is a clear indication of the rigour and competitiveness of the program. This type of structure ensures that only the best of the best become teachers of the future leaders of the nation.

I have been on the BERA Council for several years so you might expect me to be pro educational research. Indeed, I do genuinly believe that education research matters and spend quite a lot of my time engaging with research. However, I think that this report helps to illustrate some of the problems with outcomes from educational research - its often wordy, self-serving and lacks punch.

I was hoping for a hard hitting report that gave convincing concrete examples of educational research that had impacted on practice (either directly or through the development of theory) - I wasn't convinced by what I read. :O( 

If The Aristotlian Society are finally embracing online dissemination then surely the rest of philosophy will eventually follow... even if they are a bit late to the party!

We often think of ice breakers at the beginning of a school year or at the introduction of a new course. These could be used through out the year.

Useful resource for new teachers

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A few examples of iPad usage in the classroom.

Great to see the student's work! This is a nice example that veers creatively into flipped classroom territory.

I like collections of apps that are meant for certain topic or activity. Here is given a list and examples of apps for content creation.

Check out how you can use PowerPoint not only for creating presentations but also for interactive quizzes.

Sirve para crear test, encuestas, etc..., usando enlaces . Se elige una respuesta, si es la respuesta equivocada, regresas a la pregunta para intentarlo otra vez. No pasas a la pregunta siguiente hasta que no aciertes la pregunta.

Openers, Icebreakers - can be done with Web 2.0 tools like wallwisher

This could equally well have been categorised under assessment (http://www.scoop.it/t/assessment-by-peter-twining).

Knowing what works will become more important than knowing why it works - though we will still need theory. This has massive implications for research (as well as practice). 

I have to say that the notion that the challenge to privacy of big data is more like 'Minority Report' than '1984' is somewhat terrifying! 

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Very true we all learn best when ti si our idea. Witnessed it in class during curiosity block. 

Yes sure, but how much can one allow students to decide? Shouldn't there be some degree of control? 

E-learning/mobile learning, course design and emerging technology