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Education revolution 'faltering': expert
"THE Federal Government's education revolution is headed for failure because of a lack of imagination, unfair funding between public and private schools, and the ''flawed'' national testing of Australian students, one of the nation's leading educators has warned."
Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Chalk up another one for blogging
"Whenever I ask my pre-service teachers or classroom teachers to blog, it comes with a variety of reasons and purposes. Not everyone uses a blog to be reflective, but reflective practice in isolation has its challenges."
Nine Reasons to Twitter in Schools
Why should educators get involved with Twitter? Here are nine reasons
1. Together we’re better
2. Global or local: you choose
3. Self-awareness and reflective practice
4. Ideas workshop and sounding board
5. Newsroom and innovation showcase
6. Professional development and critical friends
7. Quality-assured searching
8. Communicate, communicate, communicate
9. Getting with the times has never been so easy!
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These interactives provide educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas.
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GeoGebra - Dynamic Mathematics for Schools
'The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching' - Knowledge@Wharton
In their book, Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track, authors Russell L. Ackoff and Daniel Greenberg point out that today's education system is seriously flawed -- it focuses on teaching rather than learning. "Why should children -- or adults -- be asked to do something computers and related equipment can do much better than they can?" the authors ask in the following excerpt from the book. "Why doesn't education focus on what humans can do better than the machines and instruments they create?"
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