Monika Krusemann has a piece on teaching in universities in Online Opinion. Link: Extending the blowtorch
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A G M 2006 The Board of Directors of the Central Ranges Local Learning and Employment Network Inc. [CRLLEN] wishes to advise that its Annual General Meeting for 2006 will be held between 07:00am – 9:30am on Monday May 15th at the beautiful FLOWERDALE ESTATE, on the Broadford-Flowerdale Road, Strath Creek. www.flowerdaleestate.com.au As was the theme of last year’s meeting,…
Applications for the Access to Bandwidth Pilot Project are open until 10 May 2006. The Australian Flexible Learning Framework project pilots the use of national high capacity connectivity for teaching, learning and assessment. Criteria for applicants is available from the web site. Link: Applications for Access to Bandwidth Project
That should be that....but somehow I don't think so... The National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy in Australia. Link: Teaching Reading - National Library Teaching Reading - ACER
As pupils and students return to their desks, September has been chosen as the month to focus on education and learning in Scotland. The Executive, learndirect scotland and Scotland's learning community has, for the first time, arranged a series of events throughout the month to highlight their focus on engaging Scots in lifelong learning and education. September 6 - Multiple…
Australian theatre director and educator Colin Schumacher is currently in Bangkok directing 40 graduating students in a new physical theatre production. He tells us about writing and rehearsing 'Reality:Dreams', and the challenges of cross-cultural work. The tours of the educational drama workshops also continued concurrently with Mom Dusdi interpreting his work, and incorporating Howard Gardner's theories of multiple intelligences. I…
Mennie Scapens and Deborah Fraser pull together a review of the literature on MI theory and examine the extent to which its applications have been found to be associated with improved student outcomes and other positive changes in the secondary school setting, and to ascertain the reasons why the theory, which has found such a ready audience among primary school educators,…
Ross Gittins, writing in The Age asserts: OUR miracle economy is running out of spark. The rapid productivity improvement of the 1990s has not continued into the noughties. Between 1998 and 2004, growth in multi-factor productivity dropped to a below-trend 1 per cent a year, compared with 2.1 per cent during the 1993 to 1998 growth cycle. …
Trying to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind, thousands of schools are reducing class time spent on other subjects. By SAM DILLON. [NYT > Education] Link: Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math