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Studyladder is a highly effective, logically organised, Mathematics and Literacy program. It has been developed by experienced educators to inspire and motivate learning. It is suitable for Primary and Junior High School students and is very easy to use - students simply login with a username and password to access all the learning materials.
It’s not about the computer; it’s about the learning. Our students today both want and need to be active, engaged, collaborative, on-line, vigorous, empowered, creative, solvers of real-world problems. They need to be skilled and informed to do so, but they need to be challenged, motivated, and engaged in doing so.
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For years there's been a flood of anecdotal complaints from professors about what they say is the wretched state of English grammar coming from some of their students.
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Almost a third of those students are failing.
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Both schools have been supporters of the “Drop Everything and Read” concept. Observations over time have been that it has become a relatively passive activity – a good one – but still in need of something.
So, they’re going to experiment with a concept that they’re calling “Drop Everything and Blog”. The logic is one of scaffolding the concept. You can’t really blog unless you have something to blog about. So, the initial attempt will be to have students and teachers blog about favourite books that they’ve read. Once blogged, classmates will be encouraged to read the original post and comment on it.
The issue is around the speech that United States President Obama plans to make on education on September 8. Advance word is that the speech will contain an encouraging message to the youth of the United States to study hard and stay in school. A read here will indication how a speech became propaganda. The big issue here is that some school districts will allow students to watch the speech in school and some will ban it. As we get closer to September 8, expect the conversation to pick up and get even more brutal than it is now.
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