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Whilst out and about in sunny downtown Bendigo, I stumbled across this book in an 'op-shop' for $1.50 and I knew I had to buy it. Published in 1983, despite loads of funny-looking pictures, there are some insightful things mentioned. There is a whole chapter devoted to computers in education. For example, this is in a section called "The De-Schooling of Learning".

The point is that we…

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In this era of rapid interconnectivity, future leaders need to possess the global mindset to respond to today’s fast-changing, interlinked challenges.  Education has the ability to generate such future leaders!  Do you, as an educator, strive to shape your courses in global directions?  Are you looking for ways to raise your students’ intercultural awareness so that they can thrive as they enter the globally competitive professional world?  Do you want to help improve all student…

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I believe that those of us who are deeply involved with the global education/global awareness movement are being challenged to create an important part of our own and our children's future. I am sometimes (frankly) discouraged in this effort in the face of apparently well-funded and persistent "international education" and "climate change" detractors and deniers, whose motto might as well be "United We Stand--With Our Heads in the Sand." I came across the…

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I request to sign the petition "Replace Violent Time with Peace Time" for UN to take action in the site http://www.change.org/petition/peacetime so that PEACE prevails in the world.
Please also ask all your friends in the facebook to sign this petition.

Global Education Collaborative will be enriched with PEACETIME

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Even by my standards, this has been a term of dizzying highs and gut-wrenching lows. One of the highs has been the group of students looking at the inquiry question "How can a science concept be taught through a computer game?". These students have worked with a great deal of independence from me, teaching themselves Gamemaker, and using virtual experts such as Pat Kenneally, a software developer (amongst other things) in Canberra.…



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This was originally written on September 11, 2001 and was intended to the students and parents of Thinking Beyond Borders.

 

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This is neither a geography question nor a simple academic concern. This question is the first step for anyone seeking proactive solutions to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, global climate change, food security, equity, racial and gender discrimination, and just about any other social ill one can imagine. For, if we haven’t learned to think beyond borders, and we don’t know how to help others do it, how can we expect to overcome the hurdles of economics, diversity of values and thought, and geography…

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I've been thinking lots about the role of leadership in education, which was sparked by this TED talk.





The one thing that sticks out for me is the phrase "people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it". I sometimes think I don't articulate this to others as well as I always could. I sometimes focus on the what and the how (screencasting, Skype, blogs, blah blah blah).... but why am I doing it? Why bother with computers when the path of least resistance… Continue

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Vicki Davis will present, “Successful Online Presentation Skills for Students” in the Blackboard Collaborate Distinguished Lecture Series this coming Tuesday September 20, 2011 at 19:00:00GMT [ check here for the time where you are ].…

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I thought I'd do an opinion piece today. There is something that has been bothering me for quite some time, and I'd like to express my thoughts on it.



I have an issue with the word "e-learning". I was wondering at what point we are going to ditch the "e" in front of "learning". I assume "e" stands for electronic. Did we have "p-learning" before that, when kids used pens for learning? It seems, to some, at least, the tool that is used to make the learning happen is considered more… Continue

Makerere University lecturers are on strike and the students have been sent home. The government has threatened to sack the striking lecturers.

Today, the third term of the secondary and primary academic calendar begins, but teachers and the umbrella Uganda National Teachers Union are on strike too. The teachers, who want a 100 per cent pay raise, first went on strike in July.

All the strike have a 'money' element in them.

The government insists that there is no money to…

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In 1984, I was in Grade 4, and was particularly good at maths. I don't remember liking it, but I remember being good at it. I know many of my kids are good at maths, but I'd like them to like it as much as I do (now), too.



This week at CNPS, we're going to be using arrays to represent the distributive law using arrays. I plan to engage the kids by using this edited version of a TED talk, which showcases some pretty amazing mental mathematics (and using the distributive law, too! in… Continue

I'm pretty hard on myself when things go wrong. I wanted to share a success and a failure.



The first is the success. Some of our girls have chosen to investigate the question "Why do people in different countries eat different foods?". To do this, they are creating their own episode of the TV show "Food Safari", complete with the essential ingredients of the cuisine, and of course the dish which involves most of the essential ingredients...…



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