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Scootle wins 2009 Global Learning Impact Awards
Scootle has won a bronze award in overall competition and the 'best in category' award for digital learning content for the school sector at the 2009 Global Learning Impact Awards in Barcelona. The 'best in category' award recognises the quality of the digital curriculum resources published by The Le@rning Federation.
The Learning Impact Awards acknowledge the best use of technology worldwide to support learning. The finalists were reviewed by an expert panel of judges and by the attendees at the IMS Global Learning Consortium's annual Learning Impact conference and Summit on Global Learning Challenges. The entries were evaluated according to eight criteria, including improving access to learning, improving affordability of learning and improving quality of learning.
Find out more about Scootle and the Learning Impact Awards.
40 frameworks for reflective thinking
Reflective thinking is widely recognised as a critical skill in learning - and learning to learn. Increasingly, teachers are encouraging students to 'take a moment' and think about why, what and how they are learning. Trialled extensively in classrooms, Take a Moment! 40 frameworks for reflective thinking offers a variety of practical frameworks to support student reflection.
Written by respected author, educator and presenter, Kath Murdoch. Order now...
The CAFE Book - new from Stenhouse
The CAFE Book: Engaging all students in daily literacy assessment and instruction
In this clever new book from Stenhouse Publishers, the authors present a practical, simple way to integrate assessment into daily reading and classroom discussion.
The CAFE system, based on research into the habits of proficient readers, is an acronym for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding vocabulary.
The CAFE system does not require expensive materials, complicated training, or complete changes to current classroom literacy approaches. Rather, it provides a structure for conferring with students, a language for talking about reading development, and a system for tracking growth and fostering student independence. More…
Text Me a Strategy
Capitalising on the lover affair between today’s youth and the text-messaging medium, this great new book from Pembroke Publishers offers 100 strategies for promoting student learning and personal growth in a fast-paced information age. Delivered in a ‘crisp and snappy’ form, each strategy is able to be easily taught, reviewed and reinforced by teachers. The essence of each strategy is captured in its name, which makes the strategy easy to recall, easy to apply, and most of all, fun to use!
Curriculum Leadership Journal
This week Curriculum Leadership features an article about robotics in classrooms. Robotics education lends itself to the applied, real-life problems found in project-based tasks, and facilitates self-directed, challenge-based learning.
