login/register

Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Channels > education

Order by: date | title | url | snip    Show: just this cat | subcats too
Page 1 of 2:   prev   1   2   next  

2012-05-03 16:38:04     Is Too Much Tech Bad for the Modern Teenager? [INFOGRAPHIC]

http://mashable.com/2012/05/03/teenager-infographi/?...

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

view snip

/Channels/digital economy
/Channels/education

2010-10-28 11:30:30     Molly | The open source mobile portal

http://mollyproject.sourceforge.net/

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

view snip

/Channels/education
/Channels/HCI stuff/mobiles

2009-11-07 09:44:20     BBC NEWS | Education | Universities 'worth £59bn to UK'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8340552.stm

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

view snip

/Channels/education

2009-10-17 15:22:10     The Open PhD – What a Concept « Open Ph.D. – An Experiment in Higher Learning

http://openphd.wordpress.com/...the-open-phd-what-a-concept/

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

view snip

/Channels/education

2010-12-27 10:36:09     Blackawton bees — Biology Letters

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/...sbl.2010.1056.full

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

view snip

/Channels/education
/Channels/science

2015-06-15 12:24:04     Head teachers: using neuroscience for education - The Long and Short Season 4

http://thelongandshort.org/...euroscience-for-education.html

view snip

/Channels/cognition and art/brain-stuff
/Channels/education

2011-12-19 16:07:30     USF-AWB objectives

http://univ-sf.org/EN/Objectives.htm

view snip

/Channels/education

2014-03-27 07:29:41     Pop Up Learning Space | Visual.ly

http://visual.ly/pop-learning-space

Mission: Encourage life-long learning, promote alternat... environments and equip young people with 21st Century sk... skills for life, not for more school. Vision: Elastic Po... = alternative learning environments 21st century edutain... culture.

view snip

/Channels/education

2014-03-27 07:30:16     Technology and Learning | Visual.ly

http://visual.ly/technology-and-learning

Technology has a plethora of uses and has long been a u... students of today are adept at using technology so utili... education is beneficial. This infographic examines how t... useful tool and can be a useful aid in the learning process.

view snip

/Channels/education

2012-11-07 09:17:16     Welsh Government | Wales first in the world to legislate for play

http://wales.gov.uk/...=8DEDF89C91F0408C5A9748F0894C4824?...

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.

view snip

/Channels/education
/Channels/HCI stuff/emotion and fun

2012-09-21 08:09:18     In Sweden, A School With No Classrooms | Blog on Academic Earth

http://www.academicearth.org/...chool-with-no-classrooms?...

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

view snip

/Channels/education

2012-08-04 12:15:57     BBC News - Olympics 'dominated by privately educated'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19109724

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

view snip

/Channels/education

2015-05-07 18:30:14     School criticised for publicly ranking GCSE pupils - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32624101

view snip

/Channels/education

2011-01-06 20:44:20     BBC News - Furore over 'censored' edition of Huckleberry Finn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12126700

view snip

/Channels/cognition and art/language
/Channels/education

2012-06-03 13:34:01     DailyDOOH » Blog Archive » LocaModa Takes Wiffiti To The Classroom

http://www.dailydooh.com/archives/63978

view snip

/Channels/education
/Channels/HCI stuff/appropriation

2012-06-05 19:31:12     Mathematics Education: Being Outwitted by Stupidity | Education News

http://www.educationnews.org/...eing-outwitted-by-stupidity/

view snip

/Channels/education

2012-06-05 19:27:45     Number of Homeschoolers Growing Nationwide | Education News

http://www.educationnews.org/...choolers-growing-nationwide/

view snip

/Channels/education

2011-01-27 08:24:56     The Associated Press: Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules

http://www.google.com/...qM5ilfjD3zn6ImYtcZIVjuam7MztG8A?...

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 ...

view snip

/Channels/digital economy
/Channels/education

2009-04-28 11:33:42     Oxford University reveals it is losing £8,000 per student as tuition fees debate begins | Education | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/.../tuition-fees-oxford-university

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

view snip

/Channels/education

2009-04-28 11:31:14     Are loans from the IMF preventing the poorest countries from spending on children's education? | Education | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2.../imf-loans-education

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?

view snip

/Channels/education

2012-08-02 12:57:22     What can athletes with ADHD teach us about the condition? | Society | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012.../athletes-with-adhd

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?

view snip

/Channels/education

2012-09-12 22:55:04     CCTV used in more than 200 school toilets - Home News - UK - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/...-school-toilets-8129979.html

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 ...

view snip

/Channels/cognition and art/space and place
/Channels/economy and politics
/Channels/education

2011-12-19 16:18:55     A First Look at the Canvas for iOS Mobile App | Inside Higher Ed

http://www.insidehighered.com/...-look-canvas-ios-mobile-app

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

view snip

/Channels/education

2011-11-22 13:24:27     About | Learning Resource Metadata Initiative

http://www.lrmi.net/about

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.

view snip

/Channels/education

2012-06-08 16:47:16     In Math You Have to Remember...

http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_06_10.html

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

view snip

/Channels/education

2011-01-06 13:12:33     The Grim Threat to British Universities by Simon Head | The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/.../grim-threat-british-universities/

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.

view snip

/Channels/education

2015-01-22 18:20:39     Smartphones Don’t Make Us Dumb - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/...tphones-dont-make-us-dumb.html?...

Research shows that our intuition is wrong. We can focus... that we can’t may not be a phantom. Paying attention r... ability but desire. Technology may snuff out our desire ...

view snip

/Channels/cognition and art/slow and time
/Channels/digial media
/Channels/education
/Channels/HCI stuff/mobiles

2012-07-26 09:34:52     Innovating Pedagogy | Open University Innovations Report #1

http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/innovating/

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 ...

view snip

/Channels/education

2015-06-13 08:01:49     Pens And Paper Are Holding Your Kids Back, Says Microsoft

http://www.popsci.com/...s-back-according-microsoft-official

Modern classrooms aren’t working for kids, according t... Remu, the director of Partners in Learning at Microsoft ... schools are like jails--brick walls, colorless, not very... exciting,” she tells the Georgia Straight, days before...
This grim d

view snip

/Channels/education

2016-09-29 14:44:54     Learning styles: Research and Expert Opinion

http://www.slideshare.net/hodgesc/learning-styles-18939517

You will find many resources promoting learning styles a... element of teaching and learning. For example, they are ... (standard 4) and by ISTE (NETS-T). Review the resources ... set of slides. You can find more. Do not accept learning... because it

view snip

/Channels/education

Order by: date | title | url | snip    Show: just this cat | subcats too
Page 1 of 2:   prev   1   2   next