#education (54 links)
- NRICH nrich.maths.org
Rich, engaging mathematical resources for ages 3 to 18, including research-informed teacher support. NRICH resources are free to use for teachers, students and parents, and open to all.
- Polypad polypad.amplify.com
Our mathematical playground is filled with unique tools that allow students to play and explore – and they’re completely free to use.
- Additional apps – Edinburgh Learns Digital edinburghlearns.digital
Additional apps list for ELD.
- The System is Broken…and it almost broke me howtobeme59.wordpress.com
Like me, most ND people want to go to school, want to learn. And I think it is incredibly sad and damaging that so many so many children and young people are being let down so much by the education system. We need to do better. We need to sort out our education system. It is already too late for many children but it is not too late for the ones who are still at school or future generations.
- The Self Educating Child mrmoneymustache.com
Through some sort of miracle, my son has chosen to invest the past five years of his free time seeking out astoundingly good YouTube channels, watching most of their back catalogs, and absorbing the contents of almost every episode.
- Tynker tynker.com
self-paced online courses for children to learn coding at home, as well as specially designed curriculum for schools and camps.
- Get started | Learning Synths learningsynths.ableton.com
Via infovore.
- Children learn best when engaged in the living world not on screens – Nicholas Tampio | Aeon Essays aeon.co
A rooster crows and awakens my family at the farm where we are staying for a long weekend. The air is crisp, and stars twinkle in the sky as the Sun rises over…
- Why we should bulldoze the business school theguardian.com
V isit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school. The business…
The National Assessment of Educational Progress assesses student performance in reading at grades four, eight and 12 in both public and private schools.…
Books Bus driver raises cash via Twitter to give ‘magical’ poetry and picture book to all 2,681 schools Shares 1,082 1082 The Lost Words: ‘If it helps close the…
Children enjoying the forest school garden at Cambridge Day Nursery but such classes may not continue if the extra free hours squeeze budgets.Photograph: Sonja…
- Grammar schools: back to the bad old days of inequality theguardian.com
A brilliant early summer Saturday in 1967, as I recall. A knock on the front door. A kid who had been in the same class as me at Parr Lane primary school in…
We are considering a move from England to Scotland in the next year or so and in order to make a decision about where to live etc. I need information on…
- No assembler required economist.com
COMPUTING has always been a youngster’s game. The founders of Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft were in their teens or 20s when they started the businesses…
- The Slow Death of the University - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education chronicle.com
"Education should indeed be responsive to the needs of society. But this is not the same as regarding yourself as a service station for neocapitalism. In fact, you would tackle society’s needs a great deal more effectively were you to challenge this whole alienated model of learning. Medieval universities served the wider society superbly well, but they did so by producing pastors, lawyers, theologians, and administrative officials who helped to sustain church and state, not by frowning upon any form of intellectual activity that might fail to turn a quick buck." Terry Eagleton on good form.
Via infovore.
- Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share scratch.mit.edu
Via jamesholloway.
Ultimately, MOOCs are not by themselves a mechanism for development but require certain levels of education and technology. They are reaching millions of people around the world, but to truly revolutionise access, improvements in the broader education and technology ecosystem are vital.
- Scotland is going it alone – regardless of the referendum theguardian.com
The more influential ministers in the coalition ache above all to radically challenge the role of the state, to achieve the reverse of the 1945 Labour government. Remarkably, given that they rule in a hung parliament, they have found the space to pursue their radical ambitions. Few in England voted for a revolutionary overhaul of the NHS, the near privatisation of universities, a further decline in the power of local government, a framework for education that paves the way for a return to selection and the introduction of profit-making schools, but that is what they are getting. In their fervent disdain for the state as a mediating agency, ministers focus with special energetic intensity on areas over which they happen to have no powers in Scotland.
As a result Scotland becomes more markedly different than ever. In Scotland the NHS is spared the haphazard revolution in England. The education secretary, Michael Gove, is powerless to impose his resolute will on schools in Scotland and the same applies to his other more evangelical colleagues moving England rightwards. Without doing very much Scotland becomes more different because of what is happening in England. The limited powers handed over to the Scottish parliament are precisely the ones that partly protect it from the ideological mission of the Westminster government.
Termshows are purely text based. This makes them ideal for demoing instructions (as the user can copy-paste), making fail-safe "live-coding" sessions (plain text is very scalable), and sharing all your l33t terminal hacks.
Via infovore.
Send a link to clients, rather than writing something yourself.
- What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
"While Americans love to talk about competition, Sahlberg points out that nothing makes Finns more uncomfortable. In his book Sahlberg quotes a line from Finnish writer named Samuli Puronen: "Real winners do not compete." It's hard to think of a more un-American idea, but when it comes to education, Finland's success shows that the Finnish attitude might have merits. There are no lists of best schools or teachers in Finland. The main driver of education policy is not competition between teachers and between schools, but cooperation."
- What is MITx? - MIT News Office web.mit.edu
- Improve your French by listening to French Radio stations learn-french-help.com
Mesofacts are the facts that change neither too quickly nor too slowly, that lie in this difficult-to-comprehend middle, or meso-, scale. Often, we learn these in school when young and hold onto them, even after they change.
Via russelldavies.
- Lazarus taxon en.wikipedia.org
In paleontology, a Lazarus taxon (plural taxa) is a taxon that disappears from one or more periods of the fossil record, only to appear again later.
- Nuclear Power [MrReid.org] wordpress.mrreid.org
Mr Reid's excellent Interesting talk: "Everything you know about nuclear power is wrong".
So what is the organisation's end goal? Bowdler puts it simply: "To engage people with science who would not otherwise choose to immerse themselves in the subject."
- Toy Chest (Online or Downloadable Tools for Building Projects) - UCSB English Department Knowledge Base wiki.english.ucsb.edu
""Toy Chest" collects online or downloadable software tools/thinking toys that humanities students and others without programming skills (but with basic computer and Internet literacy) can use to create interesting projects."
I'm currently researching three post-graduate HCI/Usability/Interaction degrees at three institutions in and around London UK, at: City University, UCL and Kingston.
UCLIC (pronounced You-Click) stands for the University College London Interaction Centre. I attended their MSc in Human-Computer Interaction and Ergonomics, a joint program between Computer Science and Psychology, this past year. As promised, to aid others in selecting their program in the future, I am giving a full review of the program.
- Preoccupations: Our work (so far) this year preoccupations.org
Via infovore.
- MSc Human-Centred Systems overview soi.city.ac.uk
Will equip you with techniques and theories with which to design, implement and evaluate interactive computing systems for the widest range of users.
Research-behaviour traits that are commonly associated with younger users – impatience in search and navigation, and zero tolerance for any delay in satisfying their information needs – are now becoming the norm for all age-groups.
Not replicating browser functionality and making accessibility help videos.
Seek to be a double/triple/quadruple threat.
- LiveMocha(tm) : Pages livemocha.com
...blends self-paced lessons, a vibrant community, and interactive tools to help you talk to the world.
- Mango Beta Launched! trymango.com
The first Free enterprise language learning course available on the Internet. Eleven of our courses are now available in our beta release. Each course has 100 lessons available.
Here are some of the general and sobering situations I’m running across the deeper I go into under-represented countries when it comes to educational opportunities and resources.
Capital Community College Foundation has a good site on Grammar and Writing which contains a very intensive guide from word and sentence, paragraph to essay and research paper level for grammar and writing. Bookmark this handy site for reference!
"Big businesses are not the only ones who can benefit from sending work overseas. Individuals can make cost and time savings, too. Ben Hammersley investigates" I might try and get my del.icio.us linking done offshore to save some time.
- Open Letter venganza.org
" I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster." Genius.
Designed to make great works of Japanese literature accessible. It features four stories by Natsume Soseki, the father of modern Japanese literature, and three stories by Akutagawa Ryonosuke, the Japanese master of the short story.