An interesting debate about the following anecdote, cited from Jimmy Wales’, founder of Wikipedia, keynote earlier this week, has started over on edu.blogs.com: does this anecdote merely serve to bolster one argument over another, or does it present a common sense solution? Answers on a postcard:
Think of the last restaurant you went to. Did you […]

Want to hear what Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has to say about the state of information in the 21st Century? Stay tuned to both edu.blogs.com and Connected Live for more…
Coming up this week on both edu.blogs.com and Connected Live, live blogs from one of the world’s best and biggest conferences on the state of information […]

Cross-posted to Alan Coady’s Musical Blog
A little over a year ago I made a vow to try to learn Polish. Apart from the stated reason and the fact that it would be interesting, I hoped it might be helpful in school which, I’m pleased to say it has on one or two occasions. Unfortunately, I […]

I began to write a short comment on John Connell’s Blog in answer to his wondering why, when one’s native tongue can be absorbed without homework, other subjects feel the need for it. The example given was maths.
Even if we regard maths as a second language, the native tongue is already thousands of hours ahead […]

There appear to me to be three types of reading – or should I say layout:

printed, linear text
printed text - largely linear but featuring distracting insets, “emboldened extracts…” and photos/diagrams bearing descriptive information – frequently found in Sunday supplement features and New Scientist articles. Enticing as they are these distractions are to narrative flow what […]

Sergio Della Sala’s one minute summing up of his talk at the Scottish Learning Festival.
You can listen to more detail about Della Sala’s research in LTS’s new Learning About Learning video-based website.

Ewan McIntosh, National Advisor for Learning and Technology Futures, chats about why he attended SLF07, what he gained from the event and his hopes for the progression of Scottish Education over the next five years.
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Cross-posted at edu.blogs.com
This morning’s news reports tell us enough is enough. If a pair of Britain’s young sporting hopefuls can lose all their funding in one fell swoop after doing what millions of other kids do on a daily basis, then what are the consequences for our kids when they reach the world of ‘professionalism’ […]

David Robertson, presenter of the BBC’s Reporting Scotland, talks about about the importance of engaging young minds with journalism and media in the classroom.
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Representatives from three different educational groups introduce what each of their projects involves. Fiona Fisher of the Scotland China School Links Program, Bridget Doogan of Scottish Health talking about ‘emotional literacy’, and Margaret Sutherland of the Scottish Network for Able Pupils feature in these short interviews.
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