links for 2011-06-21
Snap out of it – a quest to stop dreaded brain freeze SIMONLEWIS does his bestNew York accent when recounting the first funding conversation he had with theMichael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research:...
Monthly Archive: June 2011
Walk in a refugee’s shoes to feel the pain (The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Jun 2011, Page11)
I forgot to record it! Where is the SBS website! Walk in a refugee’s shoes to feel the pain RAYE COLBEY The Sydney Morning Herald 21 Jun 2011 Ilive near the Inverbrackie immigration...
Anglican Church set to bless gay bishops (The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Jun 2011, Page9)
I feel like John Henry Newman did when looking back at the Church of England – but are things any better across the Tiber? Anglican Church set to bless gay bishops Riazat Butt The...
FairWork gives tick to shorter shifts after school (The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Jun 2011, Page3)
FairWork gives tick to shorter shifts after school Kelly Burke and Melissa Davey The Sydney Morning Herald 21 Jun 2011 SMALL business has had a victory over Labor’s workplace reformsby gaining the right to...
Indicators, targets and the decline of education?
Reading this, one is glad that we never did outcomes in the way that some jurisdictions in the USA did. Outcomes are still a bit of a restriction, but the breadth of ours leaves...
Should we assign homework? | Edutopia Group Discussions by and for Educators
May be too late to participate in this discussion, but reading it shows the potential of these discussion threads and the variety of views around this topic. This would be a very healthy thing...
eduTecher – Backpack for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
eduTecher – BackpackBy Adam Bellow Worth a look, although it appears not be optimised for iPad. Description Bring the best websites to your classroom! Make learning more exciting and save time looking for the...
More Africans learn by mobile phone | e-Taalim
More Africans learn by mobile phone | e-Taalim. Cheap, useful technology! And we still ban them in classrooms. I feel like making some trite statement – phones don’t distract students, students distract students, or something....
1to1Unconf-participant – What is Best Practice on anIWB in the 1to1 classroom
1to1Unconf-participant – What is Best Practice on anIWB in the 1to1 classroom. I’ve been trying to figure out where this person (Simon C) fits into the scheme of things, because his tweets are always...
Flurry: Time Spent On Mobile Apps Has Surpassed Web Browsing
I think it should be abundantly clear that generational change is happening every 18 months. Then why doesn’t it feel like we are living longer? Mobile app analytics firm Flurry is releasing a new...