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Students are no longer required to regurgitate facts and figures. Instead the
emphasis is on their ability to sift through and analyse information.
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Tony VincentBBC News article.
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Rhondda PowlingIn Denmark, the government has taken the bold step of allowing pupils full access to the internet during their final school year exams. A total of 14 colleges in Denmark are piloting the new system of exams and all schools in the country have been invited to join the scheme by 2011.
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Fred Delventhal"In Denmark, the government has taken the bold step of allowing pupils full access to the internet during their final school year exams."
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Sam ElphickSome high schools in Denmark are beginning to allow students access to the internet during exams. Exciting stuff, and fantastic to see countries looking into more open forms of assessment. I will be interested to see how quickly other nations follow Denmark's lead in this regard. Tools like Diigo would be a fantastic method of preparation for student's sitting these exams.
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Students are no longer required to regurgitate facts and figures. Instead the emphasis is on their ability to sift through and analyse information.
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In Denmark, the government has taken the bold step of allowing pupils full access to the internet during their final school year exam
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Minister for education in Denmark, Bertel Haarder, says: "Our exams have to reflect daily life in the classroom and daily life in the classroom has to reflect life in society.
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"Then they go into the exam room and all that's taken away and they're given a fountain pen and a sheet of lines paper and a three hour time limit. It's time to get real, isn't it?"
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Bill Harshbarger"Students are no longer required to regurgitate facts and figures. Instead the emphasis is on their ability to sift through and analyse information."
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Brett Campbelluse of web for language final in Denmark
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Insight ObservatoryPupils in Denmark are allowed full internet access during their final school year exams.
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Nick SiewertSchools in Denmark are piloting a program which allows students to use computers with internet access on national writing exams.
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msjweirPupils in Denmark are allowed full internet access during their final school year exams.
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"if the internet is so much a part of daily life, it should be included in the classroom and in examinations" LOUD CLAP
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