Free Tech for teachers
A great resource for the hard pressed for time teacher, is somewhere that offers great resources at great prices, in this case the resources are pretty good and in the main the price is free! Now it just doesn’t get any better than that.
At the moment there is a newish open source media player, [...]
Reducing waste at school
Schools can generate a huge amount of waste in a single day, and a lot of it is paper which is probably one of the easiest things to recycle, but before a school embarks on a waste reduction programme there are some questions that need answering.
How much paper is being used on a daily basis [...]
Lego banned from school
Lego has always been regarded as a great educational tool for young children; it helps them learn about making shapes and building up all sorts of things. But in a particular school they introduced a group of eight year olds to the Lego building system.
This all went alright for some time; they built up a [...]
RIAA affects student’s education
Eric Reed Boucher the former lead singer and song writer from the group the “Dead Kennedy’s” is no stranger to the world of royalties and rip-offs as he and his band who actually split up in 1986 were involved in a royalty battle in 1998.
As you would expect he is not one of those people [...]
Online education boom
The days have long gone when every child has to go to school to get an education, the world has changed so much and with communications being so much better, home schooling has become a reality and for some children the opportunity to learn at home is ideal, it suits their situations.
Online learning as an [...]
Harvard site leaked to Bit Torrent
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences may not be the most secure place on earth but never the less you would have thought that their internet security as with any other educational institution would be up to date and capable of doing the job, but sadly it seem that it is not.
The schools [...]
Pupil database causes problems
Government plans to create a database of all school pupils is under attack due the poor security record where it comes to data storage that has been displayed over the past few months. The plan is to create a lifelong database where from the age of fourteen a pupil’s education history and personal details will [...]
February 15, 2008Where to find online learning
Finding some great online learning resources can be a little tricky not to mention very time consuming, this is before being online it is pretty easy for just anyone to set up shop and start selling courses. But is this what someone looking to further their career willing to go for, after all they would [...]
February 14, 2008Porn film shown in school
Computers and schools go together naturally, but when teachers bring their own laptops into school and use these for showing educational films and presentations etc.
But when a teacher from Sandfields Comprehensive in Port Talbot, South Wales, used his own laptop to show an educational film to his class of eleven and twelve year olds an [...]
Primary school philosophers
You may feel that being five years old would mean that the subject of philosophy would be a little out of their league. But according to Gallions primary school in east London, the subject is being well received and in fact the school has had to produce their own teaching kits for other schools who [...]
February 11, 2008Expensive universities make you think
Living in the UK is expensive, and yet when it comes to education we seem to think that we are getting a raw deal, but when we a take a look at some the most expensive universities in the world then the will make people think again.
The most expensive universities in the world are:
George Washington [...]
Avoiding a large student debt
One of the worst things about finishing at the college or university is the fact that most time there will be a huge amount of money owing through a student loan or overdraft, which will need to be paid off at some stage and normally before you can afford to by a home, car or [...]
February 6, 2008Carefree studying
The way to carefree studying is the same as getting into a state of relaxation, it takes preparation and time, but once the main points have been mastered then it will soon become second nature and so the actual practice become easier.
Getting into this state of mind is the key and here are the points [...]
The difference between fact and fiction
Just what do people learn at school these days? Well it would seem that when it comes to historical facts and fiction that is found in film and books sort of blend into one historical mass where the truth is often blurred with that of fiction.
Some examples of this blurring are:
25% thought Winston Churchill is [...]
Websites at school, lead to trouble
Many web based businesses have been started by students at school or college which is how they have developed so quickly and the entrepreneurs have become very rich at a young age.
But it seems that some schools are getting wise to this and are trying to put a stop to this and it is not [...]