http://netvouz.com/goeasy/tag/education?feed=rss goeasy's bookmarks tagged "education" on Netvouz http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2009/01/good-teachers-and-inequality.html This suggests that assigning “better teachers” to bad schools might, in a sense, exacerbate educational inequalities, by worsening the performance of low-ability pupils. goeasy Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:05:33 GMT http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2009/jan/05/teaching-schools Teachers who routinely take dull lessons do children no good and should be put to sleep, says Phil Beadle goeasy Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:02:32 GMT http://www.acer.edu.au/ The Australian Council for Educational Research is one of the world's leading educational research centres, committed to creating and distributing research-based knowledge, products and services to improve learning across the lifespan in both formal and informal settings. Academic > Education goeasy Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:10:21 GMT http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ Academic > Education goeasy Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:43:00 GMT http://www.curriculum.edu.au/ccsite/home,17988.html Academic > Education goeasy Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:06:41 GMT http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/cellphones Cell phones are rapidly becoming ubiquitous in many school communities, but their presence in the classroom is commonly viewed as disruptive and unwanted. Modern cell phones offer a variety of capabilities, which are being used effectively by educators in different schools to support curricular learning objectives and boost student achievement. Explore reasons some school districts are embracing the use of cell phones for learning both inside and outside the classroom and examine specific guidelines school districts are utilizing for student cell phones. Explore specific applications of cell phones for learning, including use as Academic > Education goeasy Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:04:07 GMT http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Main_Page Horizon Project Academic > Education goeasy Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:57:48 GMT http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/01/30/opening-minds-about-cell-phones-for-learning/ Academic > Education goeasy Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:05:22 GMT http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article5527227.ece Thomas Telford School has no bell and there is no hourly stampede between classrooms. Instead its pupils have only three lessons. There is just one catch - the school day starts at 8.30am and does not end until 6pm. goeasy Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:54:47 GMT http://www.billrogers.com.au/ William A Rogers is an Education consultant. A teacher by profession, Bill now lectures widely on discipline and behaviour management issues, classroom management, stress and teaching, colleague support, developing peer-support programs for teachers and developing community-oriented policies for behaviour management, based on whole-school approaches. He works in every area of education (primary, post-primary and tertiary) conducting in-service programs for teachers, lecturing widely at Colleges of Education and Universities, working with parent groups and students in schools. He has taken seminars, in-services, lecture-programs and developed in-school workshops across Australasia, New-Zealand, U.K, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Estonia; in the past twen Academic > Education goeasy Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:37:24 GMT