Archive for the 'education' Category
Are you prepared for the challenges of a wired student body?
Nifty little article. With the advent of web 2.0 and mobile computing students are increasingly finding and defining information as accessible, interactive and up for debate. With this in mind we’re going to have to get used to students who are accustomed to seeking out information and promoting their own authority.
As the article reports:
“As Leslie [...]
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The beginning of the end for the industrial schooling system?
From the blog of Graham Attwell.
“Knowsley Council in Merseyside, has abolished the use of the word school to describe secondary education in the borough. It is taking the dramatic step of closing all of its eleven existing secondary schools by 2009. As part of a £150m government-backed rebuilding programme, they will reopen as seven state-of-the-art, [...]
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Challenges of introducing new media
Familiar to anyone involve in pushing not only new technology but of new ideas as well. The comment about the superiority of preceeding media rings a few bells.
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How to make a great topic boring
This makes a great point. Student are, increasingly at primary and senior school level, using blogs, wikis, podcasting as part of their assessment. How are we going to incorporate these aspects in HE? There is a great deal of focus on elearning as a means to deliver course content but less attention is paid to [...]
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