Current ABC edPod. This edition is about teachers pay, rural education, getting city kids to go bush and communication orders. [School Education Headlines]
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Bracks rejects 'one size fits all' curriculum changes. Victorian Premier Steve Bracks says secondary school curriculum changes will be encouraged but not imposed. [ABC News: Breaking Stories] [Bill: Education - Australia]
Multiple Intelligences Instructional Design Framework for Virtual Classes. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single6933 Two Irish-based organisations have been chosen to lead projects from a total award list of 26 projects under Minerva, the EU’s €7.5m distance education and e-learning programme. Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) will lead a project entitled ‘Multiple intelligences instructional design framework for virtual classes’. Partners in Turkey, the UK, Cyprus, France as…
TV news of the future?. Here's a mockup of how TV news may work in the future. How I came up with this view... I was drinking coffee, watching the morning news when a story about Virginia Tech came on MSNBC. I really wanted to begin this week without more stories about how they're coping. I know this makes me…
We live in an age of anxiety. People everywhere fear the next terrorist attack. Meanwhile, we slowly grow numb to Iraq
From the Financial Times [USA] "The empires of the future will be the empires of the mind," Winston Churchill once said. Perhaps it is not surprising to see Howard Gardner quoting him approvingly. Professor Gardner holds the chair in cognition and education at the Harvard graduate school of education and has been a prominent analyst of the human mind for…
Thanks to Julie Atkins for pointing this out.. Professor Howard Gardner is at it again, never ceasing to create innovative approaches to traditional conceptions of thinking and learning. His groundbreaking theory of multiple intelligences spawned a re-evaluation of school curricula, highlighting the importance of including the arts and culture in mainstream learning. Recently, at the annual conference of the National…
Nuclear Subs Spotted at Sea Near Japan and China in Google Earth. The world is truly a really big place. At any moment in time you can take a picture from space (or an airplane) and always catch something interesting going on. With millions of people using Google Earth and Maps, eventually someone will happen upon something interesting among the…
Education ministers agree to a nationally consistent school curriculum. State and Territory Ministers have acknowledged the merits of the Federal Governments proposal to have a nationally consistent school curriculum. [School Education Headlines]