Teacher Talk-: Education

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Sunday, 6 September 2009

Hope you can swim....

The world has moved into IG3.

Education is moving into IG3.

IG3 = information generation 3!

On Saturday I participated in a very exciting, first of its kind,

Image via CrunchBase

learning opportunity. At home, safe, on my computer, I was able to engage in a most stimulating
"Leading a Digital School" conference through Twitter.

I was not the only one.

Read Stu Hasic's account:@ http://bit.ly/BRIJt

You Better Start Swimmin’ or You’ll Sink Like a Stone

Friday, 28 August 2009

Your gateway to tuition-free education.

" The University does not charge students to take classes. Readings and other study materials will be available online free of charge.."

"Harnessing new technologies to deliver low cost education to people around the world is a daring venture".
Professor Jack M. Balkin

Watch: ABC News on the tuition free University.

Friday, 26 June 2009

Ken Robinson shares his ideas.

KEN ROBINSON, EDUCATION & CREATIVITY EXPERT

"an awful lot of people who did well after school didn't do well in school."

"The people achieve their best when they firstly tune into their natural aptitudes."

"The second thing is that they love it.

"We all think and learn differently."

"Every one of us - all our children - have great natural abilities and talents and they're all unique. And that education clearly has to cover some common ground for everybody. You know, we all need to learn to read and write."

"There are several big bits to education. One of them is the curriculum, which is what it is we want people to learn; then there's teaching, which is how we help them to do it; and assessment, which is how we make some judgments about how they're getting on. ... And the bit they leave is the only bit that will ever make a difference which is the quality of teaching."

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