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Giving More Credit Than is Due
Simon van Zuylen-Wood has a nice piece on the Web site for The New Republic about Newt Gingrich’s “Earning by Learning” plan for education reform. This is the one that involves giving kids cash incentives for such things as reading books over...
Mobile Learning Week: From Text Books to Telephone
UNESCO will hold an international experts’ meeting and symposium at its Headquarters in Paris from December 12 to 16 to promote the potential contribution of mobile telephones to education. Last year, 5.3 of the world’s seven billion people were using...
Learning Information the Hard Way May be Best ‘boot Camp’ for Older Brains
Canadian researchers have found the first evidence that older brains get more benefit than younger brains from learning information the hard way – via trial-and-error learning. The study was led by scientists at Baycrest’s world-renowned Rotman...
UK Domesday Project Receives New Life With Domesday Reloaded
BBC Learning has revealed plans to resurrect one of the most ambitious computerized surveys ever undertaken in a new multimedia project called Domesday Reloaded. As part of this inspirational campaign, which will feature online and on national and local...
Writing Assignments Boost Critical Thinking Skills for Landscape Design Students
Dr. Ann Marie VanDerZanden is preparing students in her horticulture classes for challenging careers by boosting their critical thinking capacity. “Horticulture graduates entering the field of landscape design and installation must be able to integrate...
BBC Hands on History Team Challenge Families to Discover the Secrets of Stonehenge
This half term the BBC Hands on History team are challenging families to unravel the mystery surrounding the creation of Stonehenge with a new whistle-stop tour across the UK. How People Arrived Here: stonehenge comic, ancient history cartoons, cartoon...
Students with Disabilities in Samarkand Region, Uzbekistan, Receive PCs
Fifty school students with physical disabilities in Samarkand region were provided with personal computers on the eve of the new academic year.
Toxic Kool-Aid for a Thirsty Country
The cover of the Insight section of today’s San Francisco Chronicle trumpet’s the question: Who will create the jobs of the future? This was the common theme for the first five opinion pieces. I have no idea how the Chronicle decided to...
