By Marilyn Achiron. Put yourself in their place: if you were new to a country and barely able to communicate in the local language, how do you think you’d do in school – particularly if you were living in a poor neighbourhood and attending a school with inadequate resources? It might come as a surprise to learn that, in some countries, immigrant students perform better in mathematics than their non-immigrant peers. Read more...
By Tracey Burns. Did you ever wonder if education has a role to play in stemming the obesity epidemic sweeping across all OECD countries? Or what the impact of increasing urbanisation might be on our schools, families, and communities? Or whether new technologies really are fundamentally changing the way our children think and learn? If so, you’re not alone. More...
By Maroussia Klep. There’s an old saying that “you can’t really understand someone else’s experience until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes”. Personally, I am not sure that you can ever truly understand what it is like to be that person, but you can make every effort to consider his or her perspective. More...
By Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office). The Abbott Government has taken a leaf out of John Howard’s book. Howard saw John Hewson lose what was seen as the unloseable election in 1993, largely because he said openly what he would do if elected and the voters didn’t like it. So in 1996, Howard was careful not to tell the electors that he was planning the same extreme approach, riding to the Lodge on disenchantment with Paul Keating and a misleading image of reasonableness. More...
By Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office). Against a backdrop of the Abbott Government planning widespread changes to the way Australian higher education is funded, the NTEU has been screening Ivory Tower around the country – a film exploring the changes in America’s university system that have led to a more marketised model of education. More...
By Paul Kniest (NTEU National Office). Scholars at Risk (SAR) has released a report entitled Free to Think, which published the result of its Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which after four years of monitoring and analysis by SAR staff and researchers around the world, analysed 333 attacks on higher education communities in 65 countries. More...
This paper’s point of departure is a rough differentiation between what we term “Active Situated Learning” (ASL), and the complementary approach of “instructional learning”. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Here's How 20,000 Reddit Volunteers Fight Trolls, Spammers, And Played-Out Memes
Steven Melendez, Fast Company, 2015/07/28
Interesting article not only because it describes how Reddit's community of volunteers manages to filter the discussion forums, but also because it makes it clear the impact of unmoderated speech. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Rethinking 'What Counts'
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2015/07/28
This is a reprint of an Audrey Watters article that appeared in a paywall site back in April. She writes: "Learning is not a counting noun," says Dave Cormier, "so what should we count?". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The #blimage challenge spreads
Steve Wheeler, Learning With Es, 2015/07/27
It has been quite a while (years, really) since we've seen such an outburst of fresh writing in the edublogosphere. The current deluge is courtesy of the #blimage (blog image) challenge issued by Amy Burvall, which she explains in a video: one person sends the other an image, the other writes a blog post about education related to the image. HJ.DeWaard explains more. More...
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