attention
The Washington Post has published an interesting article by a law professor about students attending classes with laptops open [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/06/AR2007040601544.html?hpid=opinionsbox1] . It calls into question the idea that the younger generation are as able to multi-task and process
Blogging
Martin Stabe has some good advice for journalism schools: [http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/04/11/hey-j-schools-teach-before-you-unleash/] > Journalism schools need to teach their students that blogs are internet publications like any other. They are public on the internet and can be read by anyone in the world with
education
Teaching dedication takes on a whole new meaning at Fraser’s school [http://www.teaching20.com/?p=29]: > Last night, I wrote an application which I imaginatively call KidBrowser. … Basically, it’s an ultra-simple web browser for our Primary 1 children (age 5-6). It has a row of buttons
childhood
Lorna, my wife, has a theory that we’re in a very tight window of opportunity where computer and web familiarity is an advantage to you in the workplace. From there we’ll rapidly move to a situation where lack of it is a crippling disadvantage (if we’re not
academia
While I was away in France, the annual fracas over improved A level results broke out. Now, I know where I stand on this; I know people who work and teach in Higher Education and they’re seeing a decline in the educational quality of freshers, not an improvement. Here’
academia
A couple of things caught my eye in the papers over lunch *(I know, I know. Dead tree papers. How very 20th century of me.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * *The first up was this piece about the declining standard of UK graduates [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/
blog advice
Some excellent advice from Mysterium Tremendum [http://thinklings.org/jared/index.php?p=209&more=1&c=1]: > If you’re going to be railing against the poor state of public education, the poor quality of teachers, and the general stupidity of the average student/teacher/school
