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Survey shows division over reform agenda – Education Review ”Principals would be more positive towards the national professional standard if it was managed and accredited by the profession, a new survey shows. Ruth Callaghan reports”
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Which is the best format for ebooks? | Ask Jack | Technology | guardian.co.uk ”An ebook format should offer a good reading experience, be an open standard format (or at least openly licensed), have the support of both publishers and hardware vendors, and be guaranteed to work for the foreseeable future, if not forever. Unfortunately, there isn’t one. Buying ebooks requires compromises and an act of faith. Always assume your ebooks will not last very long, so you won’t be disappointed if they don’t.”
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Getting teacher evaluation right – The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post Briefing on the right way to evaluate teachers given by Stanford University Professor Linda Darling-Hammond and other leading education research experts to US policymakers
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Which is the best format for ebooks? | Ask Jack | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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The post-reading generation talks about the future of books Article that looks at a study that shows it is not al “doom and gloom” for books
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Will · “We Prepare Children to Learn How to Learn” Post that discusses learning andstandardized testing. Like the US we too are becoming very dependent on “the test” to tell us about our students and their learning. This may lead ti the situation that we know less and less about who they really are as individuals. .
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Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American New research makes the case for hard tests, and suggests an unusual technique that anyone can use to learn. Trying to figure out the answer to a question and getting it wrong, studying the material, then answering the question again teaches slightly better (about 10%) than just studying and answering.
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Online Brainstorming and Voting. Amazingly Easy and Free | tricider Very simple to use, but very versatile polling tool. You just create a question and add some options then share it with the people you want answers from. The great thing is that they can add extra options and add various pros and cons of each option as well as voting on the ones they like. This makes the whole process of polling much more open, social and interactive. Here’s a quick video showing how it works
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SimplyBox – Think Inside the Box This is a simple to use tool which uses boxes in place of folders and enables you to grab an image from the site as a link back to it, rather than a title. The other great advantage of this tool is that you can share boxes and work on them collaboratively and anyone accessing the box can leave notes on each of the tools. I introduced this tool about halfway through the course by putting links to all the tools we had used in one box, and using this as a revision task, I got the teachers to leave teaching suggestions and notes about how to use each tool and what its strengths were on each of the bookmarks.
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Amazon Digital Content: a Library at Your Fingertips | Search Engine Journal An interesting debate on this topic esp. reading the comments
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Why the idea of a Netflix for e-books makes sense – Tech News and Analysis A great list of things you can learn from Twitter, and reasons why you should be on Twitter yourself
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