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Theme : education
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Learning English at Six Months
Children in Shanghai are learning English as young as six months old: that's pretty early, but what are the implications on learning?
from : samjones
11th May 2007
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DIY Professionalism
Join us for the launch of a new report by Demos and the General Teaching Council about teacher professionalism.
from : peterharrington
10th May 2007
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Children's experiences of technology outside the classroom way ahead | E-learning | EducationGuardia
Children have been quick to grasp the joys of new technology. Why are schools lagging so far behind, ask David Puttnam
from : tomrichardson
8th May 2007
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newsobserver.com | Students require arts smarts
newsobserver.com | Students require arts smarts
from : samjones
5th April 2007
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Open the gates and free people from Britain's ghettos | Communities | SocietyGuardian.c
Article about the need to understand the effect that living in ghetto-like housing estates can have on the mind. There is a very good critique of the arguments in the second comment (possibly better than Hutton's article).
from : tomrichardson
19th February 2007
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Talking school dropouts round to university
Motivating disillusioned pupils to go to university defeats most experts. Now, relationship counsellors at Relate have been brought in to help. And as Lucy Hodges discovers, this novel approach is getting results
from : tomrichardson
15th February 2007
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Leap in performance
Youth clubs improve children's learning, but will they retain funding?
from : tomrichardson
9th February 2007
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schools and social networking
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released the overview of their latest study on teens' usage of social network sites. As danah boyd comments, most of the data is not surprising, but it is interesting. Here are some of the key findings:
from : hannahgreen
10th January 2007
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Their Space
Their Space: Education for a digital generation draws on qualitative research with children and polling of parents to counter the myths obscuring the true value of digital media.
from : markfuller
10th January 2007
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Their Space Podcast
It's the seventh Demos podcast, and the first of 2007. It sees Hannah and Celia talking about the report Their Space: Education for a Digital Generation. The project, funded by the National College for School Leadership, explores the skills that young people are learning through their use of new technologies and makes suggestions for how schools and policy makers should respond.You can listen in by downloading the mp3 file here, or by subscribing to the podcast feed here. Or, the audio should...
from : hannahgreen
4th January 2007
