Inspiring New Futures

My View: Encourage your kids to write – Schools of Thought - CNN.com Blogs As a researcher in the field of early childhood education, I relish the idea of uncovering how factors in early childhood related to children, families, and schools, connect to children’s academic achievement once they enter school. As a parent, I often find it exasperating.

India's education malaise has all the hallmarks of a development disaster | Global development | guardian.co.uk Blighted by abysmal teaching standards and glaring inequalities, India's schools are failing to prepare the way for future prosperity If you want a glimpse of the challenges facing India 's education system, there is no better vantage point than Rajpur primary school. Located in the tribal belt of the Shahabad hills of Rajasthan, the school serves some of India's most disadvantaged children.

Students: are memes the new site of class struggle? Discuss | Education | guardian.co.uk Students have embraced the internet phenomenon of memes to wage war against rivals at other universities. All good fun, or an unwholesome resurgence of snobbery?

8 Tips For Blogging With Students | Edudemic Blogging is a great way to promote reflective writing in class. The best way to get started is to jump in and try it out, and this list should provide some pointers to get you started. If you’re looking for more best practices and ideas, check out these 30 top-rated student blogs .

Tech Transformation: Collaboration, Content and Choice (part 2) Earlier this week I wrote a post about what motivates teachers, based on Alfie Kohn's book Punished by Rewards. Today I've been considering how these same 3 things also motivate their students too.

Tech Transformation: Sharing the Passion In the past few days I've started reading a new book: Reinventing Project Based Learning by Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss. Chapter 2 is about creating a professional learning community/network (PLC/PLN).

Tech Transformation: Quad blogging - an inquiry into teaching writing I'm excited to be at the start of an action research project with three other schools - our aim, over the next five weeks or so, is to inquire into whether we can use quad blogging to improve student writing.