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Virtual Teachers To Offer Tips Via The Web
A new out-of-hours service that allows pupils to receive homework tips from "virtual teachers" is being piloted in Scotland.
Pupils from Alva Academy in Clackmannanshire will trial the so-called vodcasting system, with teachers of subjects including maths, music, and home economics recording videos recapping key points from lessons to help with homework.
The videos will be posted on the school website and will be accessible by pupils at home. Teachers will also record audio files of lesson tips that will be playable on pupils' MP3 players or mobile phones.
The initiative is the latest in a series of projects that have seen technology becoming an increasingly important part of the education system. A new out-of-hours service that allows pupils to receive homework tips from "virtual teachers" is being piloted in Scotland.... more -
The Math War: How schools have changed their lesson plans
"They call it the Math Wars: The debate, at times acrimonious, over which way is best to teach kids math. In its most black-and-white form, it pits schools hoping to prepare kids for a new world against reluctant parents who feel that the traditional way is best and that their kids are being shortchanged."
Apparently, more and more schools are teaching kids "conceptual math" or the concepts behind mathematics as opposed to the formulas themselves. Most parents aren't exactly angry about that, but frustrated that they can't help their kids with homework because they never learned this newfangled stuff.
Honestly, I probably would have done a LOT better at "concept" based math- a lot of people tend to either be math or english people, and I sucked horribly at math while passing english with my eyes closed. I wonder if conceptualizing math before learning formulas and things like that would have helped me to understand it and like it more than I did. "They call it the Math Wars: The debate, at times acrimonious, over which way is best to teach kids math. In its most black-and-w... more -
Too much homework = lower test scores
Why didn't someone study this when I was in school? A comprehensive review of academics around the world found that excessive homework does not mean better scores, and countries that assign relatively little homework score well. Why didn't someone study this when I was in school? A comprehensive review of academics around the world found that excessive ho... more
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Case Study on Alzheimer's Disease
Case Study on Alzheimer's disease
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May the force exercise you / Wii lightsaber
Moving Beyond Joysticks, and Off the Couch
Active video games are not a substitute for sports and outdoor play, but several studies show that the games can significantly increase a childs level of activity while playing indoors.
In one New Zealand study, researchers studying game use by 21 children showed that active video games produced about as much activity as walking, skipping and jogging, according to the report in August in Pediatric Exercise Science. Moving Beyond Joysticks, and Off the Couch ... more -
Girl stripped for forgetting homework
Staying in at recess, okay. Staying late after class, okay. A call to your parents, understandable. Stripping in front of the class, WTF? "A SEVEN-year-old girl was made to strip naked by her teacher in a New Delhi school for not completing her homework. She was made to strip completely naked and stand on a desk in her class on Friday while other students were asked to boo her. 'The teacher was arrested on a complaint by the parents but she has been released as it was a bailable offence,' Rajan Bhagat said. " Staying in at recess, okay. Staying late after class, okay. A call to your parents, understandable. Stripping in front of the class... more
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