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17 Aug 09
dy/dan » Blog Archive » What I Would Do With This: Glassware
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Math Club Jr. last week, which simply started with, “What shapes can Spiderman make in the air as he hangs on his thread?” Those five year old boys are all Spiderman fans.
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funny or not: conicity is funny, and so is glass purpose as far as cocktail mixing
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dy/dan » Blog Archive » But How Do I Remediate THAT?
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I tend to be highly skeptical of magic bullets, miracles, and so forth when I hear about them in the educational “literature” on-line. And I certainly don’t have any. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t continue to try to understand why some things do click unexpectedly or how to increase the percentage of kids we engage.
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Having been in front of many at-risk/remedial classrooms, I can tell you that the kids HATE me for trying to “force” them to think and answer. They find it highly-disturbing when I won’t just give them the solutions immediately. And they quickly tell me that what I’m doing “isn’t mathematics” and “isn’t teaching.” They swear that what they want is “book work.”
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12 May 09
The Iain Dale interview | LabourList.org | April 2009
I would love to increase the number of teachers by 20%. I would love to, and to be fair to the Labour government have done a lot on that. But to just say that everything’s perfect and we need to spend every pound that we’re spending now is just being an ostrich.
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Enough people told him the FSA wasn’t working and yet he did nothing about it. So for him to say it’s all to do with America is completely untrue.
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Boris Johnson, the test case for a Tory government. He’s overturned the tariff on gas-guzzlers; he’s only building social housing in already deprived areas, he praised the sub-prime mortgages in America; he destroyed cycle lane budgets but still called himself green. And those are the very few things he has done…
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06 May 09
Employers' guide to qualifications (PDF, 2 Mb) - OCR and The British Chambers of Commerce
The new certificate and diploma 'awarding authorities' in the UK - explained in a short and simple brochure. This covers GCSE, A-Level, NVQs, OCR Nationals, BTEC and City and Guilds, for example.
Row erupts over schools open-source project - ZDNet.co.uk - June 2008
Sleaze, or clumsy evaluation criteria?
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Becta said it had received "a strong set of responses from excellent organisations all of whom scored well in different areas". It added: "AlphaPlus came out on top overall but, as stated earlier, we anticipate that the nature of the work will mean that many parties in the education and open-source community will be involved in elements of the project delivery."
The OSC's open letter to Becta - Mark Taylor June 2008 - Communication Breakdown - David Meyer's Blog at ZDNet.co.uk Community
Didn't BECTA see that coming?
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Funny how the UK Public Sector is the only one in the world who consistently 'trial' Open Source by giving projects to those least capable of delivering them, and then claim that it 'doesn't work' or is 'more expensive than proprietary (equals Microsoft) software'.
Schools get new route to cheaper software shopping - Public Sector - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
New deal for open source IT for schools
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Under the deal, schools will be able to choose from 12 software vendors - both proprietary and open source - for operating systems; office productivity software; network and security programs; as well as ERP and other software
10 Feb 09
BBC NEWS | Technology | Nine-year-old writes iPhone code
Encouragement to program.
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"Everybody can program - if Ding Wen can, so can you," he wrote.
08 Jan 09
"opened"
Interesting blog
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I'm currently working on a research essay on the topic of Open Source in Education, simply named "opened".
27 Oct 08
co-operative News - A lesson on the future of Co-op schools - 15 Oct 2008
I haven't finished reading this fascinating article, which lays aside a lot of my concerns.
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Foundation schools have been part of our education for centuries. The term derives from the wishes of the founders, often charitable institutions or church based bodies. A foundation school is part of the state education system and part of the local authority family of schools. It differs in that the land and assets are held by the trust and the governing body is the employer and responsible for student admissions. There are no significant changes in the way the school is funded,
05 Aug 08
Facebook | Message: UAE to get cooperative schools for low cost education soon
interesting
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"The UAE will diversify cooperative societies and plans to have cooperative schools for low cost education and other professional cooperative societies
18 Feb 08
YouTube - Phun - 2D physics sandbox
Not done in any kind of Smalltalk, but in C++ (and closed source) - but this beautiful video shows the kind of toy a computer should be.
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Phun is a playground for the creative mind where toys can be easily created.
Phun was created as a MSc project by Emil Ernerfeldt
Elastolab
Not Squeak but VisualWorks Smalltalk. Seems to need Win32 libraries.
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a fun program for kids that lets them play with sound, images and motion in a simulated physics environment.
ODECo
Beautiful 2D and 3D microworlds - I have to download this
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ODECo is an easy tool kit for making 2-D & 3-D dynamics simulation based on
ODE http://www.ode.org. It works under Squeak 3.6 or 3.7 image.
July 5, 2007: Ported to OLPC
10 Feb 08
Theory Y Algebra - demo-13
I am not sure if this is a good use of computers to aid learning.
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But now the school has acquired
Theory Y Algebra. The student
learns at once when they have
made a mistake.
21 Jan 08
Don't blame the immigrants - it's British children who are trouble in the classroom | the Daily Mail
Oh!
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"He's coming from Poland. We thought you'd like him in your class."
I catch my breath.
"Like it? I'd absolutely love it. Yes please,
One in five secondary schools face closure as they fail to meet government targets | the Daily Mail
League tables"shock"
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Meanwhile St Augustine's Catholic College in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, saw its results plunge
from 84 per cent under the general measure to 3 per cent when science is included.
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