The World Health Organization has defined life skills as “abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life.” In particular, life skills are a group of cognitive, personal and interpersonal abilities that help people make informed decisions, solve problems, think critically and creatively, communicate effectively, build healthy relationships, empathise with others, and cope with and manage their lives in a healthy and productive manner.
This INEE Toolkit contains a wide variety of practical, field-friendly tools and resources to guide educationalists, humanitarian workers and government officials working in the field of education in emergencies through to recovery
eLA is the largest gathering of eLearning and ICT supported education and training professionals in Africa, enabling participants to develop multinational and cross-industry contacts and partnerships, as well as to enhance their knowledge, expertise and abilities.
Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet
The Need
The Global Campaign for Peace Education (GCPE) seeks to develop the capacities, in teachers and learners, to face challenges of unprecedented proportion: the continued development of weapons of mass destruction, armed conflicts between states and ethnic groups, the spread of racism, gender inequality, community violence, the huge and widening gap between the rich and the poor throughout the globalized economy, massive violations of human rights and the degradation of the environment.
Welcome to www.learning.ac.nz. If you are a new student or tutor you can select the free course Student Guide to using Learning.ac.nz - it will help you understand how e-learning courses here work. If you are a tutor, you should then choose the free Tutor Guide to using Learning.ac.nz which helps you understand the basics of running elearning courses. Create a login for yourself, or for both courses use the username and password 'lnz'.
History of e-mailThis infographic is interesting! How long have you depended on e-mail to communicate? Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for pointing this one out today on his blog. The original can be seen at the Focus website.
MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.
CyberSmart! FREE Cyberbullying Curriculum (Completely Free Downloadable Package)
NSBA's Technology Leadership Network is pleased to partner with CyberSmart! to distribute the free CyberSmart! cyberbullying prevention lessons to K-12 schools nationwide. This set of lessons adopts an integrated approach, examining all current research findings and using best practices from the fields of cyber security, school violence prevention, and character education to impact behavioral change. Together, these materials offer schools the opportunity to begin a dialogue with students and build a sustained cyberbullying prevention campaign to continually remind the school community about safe, ethical online use. Standards-based teacher lesson plans, student activity sheets, home connections, prevention activities, and optional Web 2.0 strategies are included.
Arab Grid for Learning.org will support the Arab education community in the creation of open education content and professional development as well as facilitate the sharing of free resources within the education community. Registered users of arab.gridforlearning.org can: