Innovative mobile learning resource for schools is launched. Education innovator Futurelab today launched a free resource for schools that combines hands-on activity with state-of-the-art mobile technology to support learning that is both engaging and stimulating. Create-A-Scape enables young people aged 10 and upwards to learn while exploring their surroundings, using PDA handheld computers. [eGov monitor - Education]
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Global Summit 2006 - education.au. Global Summit 2006. An intenational event hosted to engage educational leaders, thinkers and teachers to promote the strategic development of technology connected futures. Register online... [School Education Headlines]
On encouraging surface learning. I'm bemused! On 3 May I posted about the Cambridge University Extension Course I am taking at the local Retirement Education Centre, the content of which continues to be stimulating and enjoyable.But last week I was slightly surprised that the lecturer introduced the session by telling us how to write an essay on the material covered…
Aesop tells a story about a fox that tried in vain to reach a cluster of grapes that dangled from a vine above his head. The fox leapt high to grasp the grapes, but the delicious-looking fruit remained just out of reach of his snapping jaws. After a few attempts the fox gave up and said to himself,
First and most obvious, setting up schools requires that learning take place in a defined place at a defined time. It brings together a group of people who do not necessarily have anything in common apart from their ignorance, and requires them to learn a subject through a sequence of arbitrarily defined attendance slots in a physical setting selected for…
Moral Conclusion For the moment Rosenthal will venture only one conclusion of a prescriptive nature from his decades of research: "Superb teachers can teach the "unteachable"; we know that. So, what I think this research shows is that there's a moral obligation for a teacher: if the teacher knows that certain students can't learn, that teacher should get out of…
How to cut drug use, violence in schools. A landmark Australian study that examined the smoking, drinking and drug taking uses of thousands of schoolchildren has shown there are ways to successfully intervene and cut high risk activities in adolescence. [School Education Headlines]
Communique from Ministerial Council for VTE. The Ministerial Council for Vocational and Technical Education (MCVTE) held an extraordinary meeting in Sydney to consider the options for the next stages of training reform. This Communique confirms Ministers' ongoing commitment to building a national training system, which will meet the challenge of improving future productivity and workforce participation, through the development of…