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Resources for School Leadership
According to authorities such as the National Conference of State Legislatures (Education Program : April 13, 2007), School Leadership is 'widely regarded as a key factor in accounting for the difference between underperforming schools and schools that foster student learning.'
History Education - Trends and Issues 2007.
Although History was among the earliest of academic disciplines to develop, and remans a mainstream study today, issues have often arisen regarding aims and objectives, appropriate content, and modes of delivery.
Notes on Proposals for a National Curriculum
While any move towards implementing a National Curriculum might appear to hold obvious intrinsic merit, Australian movements in this direction until this year seem to have been piecemeal and generally ineffective.
Webtools for Financial Literacy.
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money." - Cree proverb, cited in Wikipedia's Money
Online Learning Resources for Water Education
'We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.' - one of many quotations at UNESCO's 2003: Year of FreshWater site
Trends from 2006, Projections for 2007... and Beyond.
This seems to be the time of year when people feel the need to reflect on the year just past, before seriously considering what the coming year may bring.
Notes for Peace Education
It's hard to say anything about peace without sinking into a morass of platitudes: the benefits are obvious, yet the course of human affairs consistently trends towards stress and conflict; the promotion of peace is central to the notion of Christmas, though in practice the season may be far from pe
Climate Change Learning Resources
'I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.' - Sir George Porter,
Christmas across the Disciplines 2006.
Links to Christmas resources
Learning Resources for Civics and Citizenship Education
This edition of WWWTools for Education explores approaches to Civics and Citizenship Education, with special attention to the role of ICTs and online learning resources.
Interesting Links 2006
Interesting links we "come across" in our research on education matters that have informed or amused us and which we would like to share with you.
Learning Resources for Values Education.
'Values are at the heart of the human condition. The daily pattern of life is woven from a myriad of choices, all of them derived from our values. Whether we like it or not, life involves the use of some sort of moral compass'. (S. Selmes and W. Robb / 'Values and the Curriculum', 1993)
Paying for Education and Other Public Goods.
'If we look toward to a future of increasing equality and fairness, and if we value the free flow of information, the benefits of sequential innovation, and the sharing of scientific information, then we have to strive for new mechanisms to finance public goods and new institutions that place social
Learning Communities or Communities of Practice?
Etienne Wenger (1998) poses the question; "What if the key to complex knowledge challenges faced by most organisations today lies in the age old, utterly familiar, and largely informal social structures known today and communities of practice?" - Bob Harrison, in A Community Of Practice? The Toshib
Computer-mediated Collaboration in Education.
'... meaningful group communication is perhaps the greatest pedagogical challenge in unpaced learning.' - M.F. Paulsen / Online Education: Learning Management Systems, 2003). Cited in Terry Anderson's Higher Education Evolution: Individual Freedom Afforded by Educational Social Software (Athabasca U
Wiki Based Media for Education
'Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.' - Jimmy Wales / Wikiquote
Wikis in Education
A wiki is essentially a website constructed in such a way as to allow users to change content on the site.
Web Tools for Mathematics Education 2006.
'Calculators and computers are reshaping the mathematical landscape, and school mathematics should reflect those changes. Students can learn more mathematics more deeply with the appropriate and responsible use of technology. They can make and test conjectures. They can work at higher levels of gene
ScreenCasts and ScreenCasting
The screencast is a computer-based presentation tool which can be used online or offline, by individual learners, or with groups of any size.
Videoblogging and VodCasting in Education
'Podcasting and vodcasting ... are very real and very practical distribution technologies. The ability to time-shift content versus traditional broadcast distribution models expands student teaching and learning opportunities significantly. ' - Peter Meng
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