Eminent educationalist Sir Ken Robinson was speaking at TED, the Technology Education Design conference, in California. You can listen to his 20 minute keynote online. He says:
“Every education system in the earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. You’d think it would be otherwise, but it isn’t. Mathematics, Languages, Humanities and then the Arts. Everywhere […]

    As part of our commitment to continuously improve MFLE, we would much appreciate if you take a little time to download and complete our MFLE evaluation questionnaire. The feedback you give us serves as a powerful means of assessing both the strengths and weaknesses of MFLE. In this way, the project team can make […]

Via TechCrunch comes the news that social networking site MySpace is to be launched in non-English formats, notably in French, German, Chinese and India-based languages. The article points out that the Korean blogosphere, greatly underestimated by Technorati, along with the burgeoning Italian and Japanese blogging communities are likely to be next.
While I’m not proposing […]

The League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers (LECT) is offering teachers in Scotland the opportunity to gain an in-depth insight into education in Malawi through focused group study visits in October 2006 and February 2007. Teachers who want an exciting professional development opportunity and the chance to experience the challenges of education in a […]

The European Parliament sponsor the Scottish European Educational Trust’s speaking competition for Senior pupils, with heats in 10 Scottish regions followed by a final in Edinburgh. Each school team of two will be asked to choose one of the 25 member state countries, to investigate its culture and to focus on 2 issues which are […]

The BBC reports on the French government’s newly-launched online game that challenges taxpayers to balance the national budget of nearly 300bn euros ($373bn). Budget Minister Jean-Francois Cope says the game, called “cyber-budget”, will allow citizens to pretend they are in charge of the national finances. They can make decisions about spending revenue and cutting taxes. […]

The MFLE has just launched its first e-mail bulletin, giving information on what’s on the site and, in months to come, information on events, news from Scottish CILT and previews of what’s happening at SETT 2006 for languages teachers. You can sign up here - and please pass this on to anyone you think might […]

Just like Global Voices but for football (and in German) the Goethe Institute has launched its World Cup blogs. Every country taking part is represented by a correspondent giving their opinion on the matches, the fans and the event after each match. Pretty cool if you want to brush up your footy German.
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Tobermory’s own blogging teacher, Lynne Horn, describes some great lesson ideas in her recent article in Becta’s online magazine. This is packed with simple internet-based ideas that anyone with one computer and some enthusiasm could pull off.