'Secondary Schools' Category
Can social media cure low student engagement?
Denis Carter (Asssitant Editor E-Campus News)
Reprinted from E-School News
Keeping college students and their professors connected through social media outlets could be key in boosting graduation rates, education technology experts said during a panel discussion at Social Media Week in New York.
Social Media Week ran through the first week of February in five cities worldwide New [...]New ICT Events
Digital Safety Conference 2009: 19 June, London
Members may be interested in attending the Digital Safety Conference 2009 to join fellow thought leaders, practitioners and policy makers from a cross-sector cohort of delegates in an independent debate about the health, reputation and environment of the digital world.
Public registration for the conference will be made available on [...]News from IEARN
My name is Gal and I’m an iEARN member.
I would like to invite you and your students to participate in a global educational project called Magical Moments Around the World.
Magical Moments Around the World is a continuous uniting of youth from schools all over the world sharing their magical moments. A global online book written [...]‘Do Londoners care about the environment their children will inherit?’
On the 30th June at 2.00pm the London Grid for Learning will launch the ‘Low Carbon London Project’ at the headquarters of The Royal Geographical Society.
‘Low Carbon London’ is a unique on-line resource which focuses on the issues surrounding carbon emission targets and what it will [...]ICT in the Curriculum The Rose Report
Thanks to Paul Spingford from NAACE Advisory List
Sir Jim Rose’s review of the primary curriculum in England has resulted in an interim report with significant recommendations about the role of ICT.
The report is available at the Rose Review website:
First, ICT is one of the central “skills for learning and life which should be developed [...]
Open Sourced Software Support for Schools
There’s now a new website that can help schools decide whether open source software might offer benefits for them. The website is part of a Becta-supported project which aims to share information and raise awareness of open source software.
The Open Source Schools website has resources that enable schools to find out about the benefits that [...]