Recent Education Blog Posts10 Ways Parents Can Help Their Child's Educationby Dale HarcombeYesterday at 03:31 PMWhat 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 Suppressby K_REY_CYesterday at 07:46 AMI'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 Learningby K_REY_C02 Feb 2010 09:18 PMOne 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 Educationby Dale Harcombe01 Feb 2010 03:57 PMIn 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 Placeby K_REY_C29 Jan 2010 08:23 PMI'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 Moreby K_REY_C28 Jan 2010 05:52 PMToday 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 Bookby K_REY_C26 Jan 2010 06:06 PMOne 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 Educationby Dale Harcombe25 Jan 2010 02:25 PMA 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 Hardby K_REY_C22 Jan 2010 09:53 PMOn 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_C20 Jan 2010 10:01 PMSometime 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 Andrea Hermitt says... "I wonder how many of us will cope in the event of a prolonged blackout or loss of technology." |
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