Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

The Welsh Government is taking a global lead on promotin... children’s play and for the first time, legislating to... local authorities to assess the sufficiency of play and ... opportunities for children in their areas.

Vittra, the Swedish Free School Organization, has opened... school -- one without classrooms. The school's designers... open environment that encourages exploration and intelle... allowing students to learn in themed learning environmen... Digital med

More than 200 schools are using CCTV cameras in toilets ... figures showed today.
A total of 825 cameras were located in the toilets or ch ...

Education is what survives when what has been learned ha... B. F. Skinner

Too many of Britain's top sportsmen and women were educa... country's Olympic chief has said.
Lord Moynihan said it was wholly unacceptable that more ...
He described it as one of the "worst statistics in Briti ...
He said it meant half of Great Britain

What can athletes with ADHD teach us about the condition?
Michael Phelps, hailed as the greatest Olympian ever, ha ...
Share 134
Email
... cs offer a positive legacy for people suffering from it?

Innovating Pedagogy
Posted on June 22, 2012 by admin
The series of reports explores new forms of teaching, le ...
The first report proposes ten innovations that are alrea ...

Over a four-year period, Boaler followed the progress of... students through their high school careers at three high... the three was "Railside High". Not its real name, this s... urban setting, close by a railway line. She first visite...
A number of

Is tech saturation good or bad for the modern teenager?
Arguments can be made either way, but there’s no debat ...
People aged 18-34 have an average of 319 online connecti ...
Pew also recently reported that 63% of teenagers text me ...
... to help or

A TimeMap is an interactive graphic showing change over ... is linked to descriptions of the change being shown.
The TimeMap of World History covers human history at dif ...
We also have a growing range of Topic TimeMaps which tak ...

Do you believe that:
In the (near) future, students will access their dig ...
That mobile apps should not try to duplicate the bro ...
So far, the mobilization of learning has been more h ...
It is with these questions in mind that I've been p

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a pr... common vocabulary for describing educational content. Wh... benefits to such a project, the main goal of the initiat... end-user search and discovery of learning resources.

In higher education, it's not how much time you spend wi... what you do with it that should count
What is a contact hour? How does a lecture with 70 other ...

The Atlantic Home
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Follow the Atlantic »
Twitter Facebook RSS iPhone
... w up, with a little common sense and a lot of curiosity.

Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules
(AP) – 2 days ago
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Tony Brown didn't set out to over ...
The University of Missouri student came up with an idea ...
But the invention also raised a perplexing question when ...

The British universities, Oxford and Cambridge included,... from a system of state control that is undermining the o... which their worldwide reputation depends: the caliber of... scholarship.

Background Real science has the potential to not only am... transform the way one thinks of the world and oneself. T... process of science is little different from the deeply r... processes of play. Play enables humans (and other mammal...
Principal f

Molly is a framework for the rapid development of inform... portals targeted at mobile internet devices. The framewo... “batteries included” philosophy, featuring a wide va... applications and connectors to common and standards-base... including t

Universities in the UK are worth £59bn for the economy,... the economic impact of higher education.
The report, based on figures for 2007-8, highlights the ...
Universities created, directly or indirectly, over 668,5 ...
The figures follow the launch o

I am going to create my own Ph.D. program via open educa... courseware. My degree will be in Educational Technology... in (what else?) Open Education as the Great Equalizer. ... my blog states: it will be all the learning, with none o... “doc”-u

The disclosure comes as a poll showed half of students i...
According to a survey of 1,026 students, published by th ...
Students are choosing universities where they can live a ...
Close to a third (27%) of poorer students choose univers ...
The survey

If the world raised £11bn, every child could go to scho... seem all that much when the UK government manages to rai... billions to rescue its banking sector?