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Recent Education Blog Posts

10 Ways Parents Can Help Their Child's Education

by Dale Harcombe

Yesterday at 03:31 PM

What can you do as a parent to help your child with their education? Here are ten suggestions. 1. The first and one of the most important is to read to them from the time they are born. Don't stop once they can read for themselves. There's still something great about being read to.

Traveling Books or How the Digital can Suppress

by K_REY_C

Yesterday at 07:46 AM

I'm so concerned with and interested in new technologies that I often ignore older ones to my peril. This semester I'm working on a number of projects surrounding the use/abuse of copyright law as applied to the arts.

The Surprise of Learning

by K_REY_C

02 Feb 2010 09:18 PM

One of the things that I always try to do on the first day of class as a teacher is make the students excited about the possibility of what the class could be and mean for the rest of the semester.

A Furor Over Education

by Dale Harcombe

01 Feb 2010 03:57 PM

In Australia there's a bit of a furor going on at present because of a new website the government has instituted. The website has teachers outraged, as it aims to give a picture of the school and a rating of its performance when compared with other schools.

The Quiet Place

by K_REY_C

29 Jan 2010 08:23 PM

I'm constantly around people. It is an occupational hazard in a field like theatre that values face-to-face interaction as a defining principle separating it as a form from similar arts like TV and film. People, however, can also be distractions.

When Doing Less is More

by K_REY_C

28 Jan 2010 05:52 PM

Today I encountered a moment of clarity in the midst of a cloud of confusion. Suddenly the hazy mist was cleared away and I realized that I needed to do less to do more.

Reading the Book

by K_REY_C

26 Jan 2010 06:06 PM

One of the things I always do as an instructor is read the book. This seems obvious, right? It isn't always obvious. It's not always done.

Attitudes and Responses in Education

by Dale Harcombe

25 Jan 2010 02:25 PM

A teacher's attitude towards their students can have a serious affect on students and not always for the good. Recently I was talking to a friend and she was telling me how at the opening of a rural high school, the school library had no books.

Starting is Hard

by K_REY_C

22 Jan 2010 09:53 PM

On a typical week I would typically post a new blog each Tuesday & Thursday evening... typically. These last weeks have been anything but typical. My apologies if you, on one of those nights, were anxiously awaiting another post.

Paper Only? Seriously?

by K_REY_C

20 Jan 2010 10:01 PM

Sometime previously I wrote about technology. I love technology. I use it, perhaps, too much. Sometimes I'll spend more time working with a tool to see if it will benefit me than it would have taken me to do the task by hand. I could take notes on a piece of paper...



Recent Blog Comments
 
K_REY_C says...

"I think we'd all be handicapped to a certain degree."

In When Doing Less is More

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"I wonder how many of us will cope in the event of a prolonged blackout or loss of technology."

In When Doing Less is More

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"It sure is."

In Drama in Education


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