Student Calls for a Learning Revolution | Edutopia : Nikhil Goyal ( @TalkPolitical on Twitter) is a student at Syosset High School in NY. He's the author of the All Hands on Deck: Why America Needs a Learning Revolution (September 2012), columnist for the Huffington Post , guest blogger for New York Times: Dot Earth , and a conference speaker. Visit his website . Last year, industrial designer Dean Benstead unveiled the 02 Pursuit -- a prototype for a motorcycle ruled not by gas or electricity, but by compressed air. Just last month, Google announced to the public its secret initiative, Project Glass , the company's first venture into wearable computing. And yet, in the world of education, the "next big thing" is merit pay for teachers and boosting test scores. Do our policymakers not understand that the world is going through a revolution in the way we live, interact and learn? Our education system is stuck in paralysis. We have tried doing ...
Splashtop Releases Whiteboard App for Android Tablets -- THE Journal Splashtop , a California-based software company founded in 1996, has released an application that gives functionality similar to that of an interactive whiteboard to Android-based tablet computers.
How to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative in class | Teacher Network Blog | guardian.co.uk : Can we learn about positive classroom behaviour from Uncle Sam? Today's blogger says yes As a relatively young teacher, managing negative behaviour was one of the problems I really struggled with. It turns out I wasn't alone. Just a couple of weeks ago, it was announced that the highest number of state school teachers since the 1990s took early retirement last year, citing indiscipline as one of the main reasons – indiscipline really just being a manifestation of what happens when character strengths and learning habits are not developed sufficiently.
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