Hopefully this brief post will act as a marker of progress rather than just a register of the current limitations of the UK education system. Additional moves toward modernising our Duty of Care towards pupils and staff, both providing and signposting support and in building awareness, responsibility and resilience in using technologies, has come in the form of e-safety provision within the QCA'a new curriculum and in the Department for Children, Schools and Families Cyberbullying Guidance that I was fortunate enough to be able to contribute to . Anyone who has talked to me for any length of time over the past couple of years will have been hard pressed to have avoided my growing preoccupation with the UK's digital literacy agenda, or rather, lack of one.

Like YouTube in schools. We won’t educate them, we’ll just y’know, stop it . mean, we banned sex education and that stopped everything . have a friend who has a project due tomorrow for school. Banning vs education: What does failing to properly educate I’ve got a good idea. Let’s ban kids from using social networks.

For the citation sources, go here . * Schools need to open up to peer-based learning models “When 8220;When you look at children’s learning outside school, it is driven by what they are interested in, which is the direct opposite of school-based learning. What is the relationship with this idea that education is handing down a general base of knowledge? For example, in the United States a group of students were interested in Manga, the Japanese animated cartoons. In order to get hold of them before they were due to arrive on the market, this group

Don Tapscott: “A modest country across the Atlantic that’s turning into the world leader in rethinking education for the 21st century. It also scored some of the lowest educational achievement results in western Europe. To improve this penetration, the logical place to start was in school, where there was only one computer for five kids. Interesting reportage in the Wikinomics blog , about the recent experiences in Portugal. (however, however, do read the comments for more sceptical accounts from the field itself)

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a great resource for educators. Education Investigation Using Blogs in science Education Salford University Occupational Therapy Education blog Fled: Flexible Learning Education Design Its the Edublog Awards 2008 ! Dust off your party outfits and get ready to join us on Saturday night for the spectacular 5th awards show, celebrating the vibrancy of blog and social media practice to support learning .  Voting is still open across this years 16 categories , and every vote still counts since most of the category nominees are within spitting

These second generation projects are integrated with distance education offerings, where the public can use and reuse course materials for free (just like first generation OCWs) with the added option of paying to take the courses online for credit (there is no way to earn credit from the first generation OCWs). Schools with first generation OCWs that also offer distance education courses (like USU) could transform themselves into OCW 2.0 From David Wiley , see also the video below: “The first generation of OpenCourseWare projects (”OCW 1.0?) had essentially no sustainability

Though the School of Education at Stanford and several departments at Harvard have already adopted these policies, MIT is the first entire university to make this pledge. Tags: research MIT Open Innovation Peer Production P2P Education P2P Technology Open Content educatio From The Tech: Faculty voted unanimously this week to approve a resolution that allows MIT to freely and publicly distribute research articles they write.

In Grade 11, my second last year of high school, I was an average student, with marks in English in the mid 60% range, and in mathematics, my best subject, around 80%. hated school. Then in Grade 12, something remarkable happened: My school decided to pilot a program called “independent study”, that allowed any student maintaining at least an 80% average on term tests in any subject (that was an achievement Dave Pollard wrote about unschooling on his blog How To Save The World AN UNSCHOOLING MANIFESTO

When I did science at school (and to be fair I was not that great at it) the concept that you could do the experiments to find things out for yourself rather than simply accepting what was written in the text books was, well…punk. When I was taught science in school we were told that the idea behind the layout of an experimental write-up (abstract, introduction, method, results, conclusion etc) was structured as such so that anyone with a good grasp of language and maths could read it and understand it. The hacking of emails written by scientists at the Climate Research Unit has produced lots of comment and copy about the efficacy of climate science and seems to have done damage to the reputations of the scientists and sciences involved.