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BYOT: No Internet Access, No Problem

Part of the Mobile Learning Series! "The principle goal of education in schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done." ~ Jean Piaget I have been traveling throughout Slovenia and Croatia for the past month training teachers in integrating Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) effectively with their classes. I was Read full article »

Why the PopuLLar Project is Popular with Teens

What’s great about the PopuLLar project and how can you and your students get involved? It’s a project that is 'Owned' by the students who work autonomously and collaboratively; teachers are facilitators and guides to the project process. It uses the students own love of music as the motivator and we know teenagers love their music. Their music is personal and an Read full article »

Filling the Gap by Joel Josephson

by Guest Author, Joel Josephson   As educators we are more than constantly frustrated by the interference of academics (with little or no experience of the teaching of children), politicians and administrators with little or no direct pedagogic experience in the education process. Their solution to raising educational standards, almost globally, is to test children as a way to weed out bad teachers, Read full article »

Goal 7: Make A Global Connection #30GoalsEdu

Goal 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge 2012! Click the link to find out more about the new changes to this year's 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” ~ Socrates Video: Reading to Ms. Milos' 3rd Graders in Romania Short-term- Connect with Read full article »

Carrots and…Smaller Carrots? The Values Dilemma! Food for Thought by Patrick Jackson

In Dublin we have an anti-littering campaign with posters that read ‘Litter is disgusting and so are those responsible’.  I’d hazard that the tagline has no effect at all on the littering population who are brazen enough to throw litter on the streets. I doubt any one of them gives a flying fig about what a poster like this says. Read full article »

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