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Student tests/exams face hi-tech overhaul | Australian IT
NATIONAL Curriculum Board head Barry McGaw will spearhead an international project to devise a new method for assessing school students, measuring the skills they possess rather than their ability to memorise facts.
The multi-million-dollar project was launched in London yesterday by three of the world's leading technology companies -- Cisco, Intel and Microsoft. They said the aim was to resolve the gap between what was taught in schools and the skills required in the workplace.
The project aims to develop a computer-based assessment system that could be adopted around the world and would test students' knowledge in cross-disciplinary problems, spelling the end of closed-book exams testing students' memory.
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NATIONAL Curriculum Board head Barry McGaw will spearhead an international project to devise a new method for assessing school students, measuring the skills they possess rather than their ability to memorise facts.
The multi-million-dollar project was launched in London yesterday by three of the world's leading technology companies -- Cisco, Intel and Microsoft. They said the aim was to resolve the gap between what was taught in schools and the skills required in the workplace.
The project aims to develop a computer-based assessment system that could be adopted around the world and would test students' knowledge in cross-disciplinary problems, spelling the end of closed-book exams testing students' memory.
Learning to Change/Changing to Learn
Each of us involved in the making of this new public service announcement hopes to add to the continuing conversation about the important role technology can play in delivering 21st century skills; engaging students in learning; and helping students to achieve essential educational goals
Why complex systems do better without us - being-human - 06 August 2008 - New Scientist
What Helbing and others are finding is that our penchant for regularity and control is seriously misguided.
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WE HUMANS prefer the tidy to the untidy, the ordered to the disordered. We like pristine geometrical regularity, and eschew what is erratic and irregular. We want predictability and, more than anything, we want control.
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What Helbing and others are finding is that our penchant for regularity and control is seriously misguided.
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Arctic ice melting at alarming rate
Putting that into perspective, Barber notes that the Arctic hasn't been seasonally ice-free for at least the past 1.1 million years.
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
The Nature Conservancy has pledged $5 million towards the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility in Bali by the World Bank to address the largest overlooked contributor to climate change — the destruction of forests.
Clean coal a Goebbels scale lie: Dr Karl | NEWS.com.au
Underground thermal energy accessed in South Australia could provide 100 per cent of Australia's baseload electricity for the next 75 years and then be supplemented by other renewables, he said.
PrimaryExtension » Wiki
Derby DHS Primary Extension Wiki ooks at the possible impact of climate change on the environment and consequently people, plants and animals. We will also investigate ideas about how we can help change things for the better.
Windspire: 1 kW Wind Turbine for Your Backyard (TreeHugger)
With its sleek, bladeless design and capacity to produce nearly 2000 kilowatt hours per year, the Windspire might just inspire some YIMBYism -- that's Yes, In My BackYard -- about wind power.
CoolingMan - Calculate, Reduce, Offset your Carbon footprint at Burning Man
Burning Man 2006 generated an estimated 27,000 tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Vegie Cars - VegieCars, Chip Oil, Veggie Cars, WVO, SVO, UCO, Veggie Oil, Carbon Cops, Biodiesel, Biofuel
Why pay to offset your carbon emissions when you can convert to carbon neutral Vegetable Oil as fuel, saving money and the environment?
Australia's Climate Change Policy
Climate change is a serious global challenge. Australia will contribute to finding an effective and comprehensive global response. Our economy needs to prepare for a carbon-constrained future.
EO Newsroom: New Images - Drought Shrinks Australia's Lake Eucumbene
This pair of image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) sensor on NASA’s Terra satellite reveals the dramatic impact the drought has had on Lake Eucumbene, the largest of the lakes in the Snowy Scheme.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Navarra embraces green energy
At the moment, less than 7% of Europe's needs are covered by wind power, biofuels or solar energy.
But in the Navarra region, in north-eastern Spain, almost 70% of the electricity comes from the wind and the sun.
The EPA Climate Change Kids Site
Earth has warmed by about 1ºF over the past 100 years. But why? And how? Well, scientists are not exactly sure. The Earth could be getting warmer on its own, but many of the world's leading climate scientists think that things people do are helping to ma
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