teaching children
RSS teaching childrenIBM Cognos Is the Glue That Brings Management and Clinical Departments Together at the Bloorview Kids Rehab Center
White Paper In 2002, Bloorview partnered with the University of Toronto to become Canada's first teaching hospital in children's rehabilitation. Bloorview Kids Rehab, known as Bloorview, is Canada's largest... [01 Sep 2009]
No phone, no internet, no electricity: This is no ordinary IT job
News For those who fancy volunteering, the VSO's openings for IT workers fall into two categories; teaching - helping colleges and IT centres to develop curriculums and train existing teachers on using IT, or... [25 Aug 2009]
Teachers get £5.6m to swot up on how to use tech
News Teachers in England are to get help to learn more about technology thanks to a £5.6m training programme, funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. Teachers of all subjects from primary level through to... [21 Jul 2009]
Position Paper on "The Truth About DIBELS"
White Paper In hundreds of schools across the United States, DIBELS have contributed to positive outcomes for teachers and children. As educators who care about children, one needs to be vigilant about misuses of... [22 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.01.09
Round-Up The robot can be programmed to move into balancing positions that can teach children how basic physics works. Instead, the latest teaching aid for schools is chief Transformer Optimus Prime, or at least... [23 Jan 2009]
Kids should be taught tech 'from age seven'
News Primary school children should be learning how to use technology earlier in their school career, according to an influential new government review. The report recommends ICT modules that are taught in key stage 3 - when... [08 Dec 2008]
OLPC: Windows vs Linux
News At the same time, I don't think either model simply dropped in the hands of children will do the trick. What made the experience so dramatic was how well the teachers incorporated the laptops into their... [24 Oct 2008]
Training-starved teachers confused about IT
News Last month the government announced a £300m scheme that will see it pay for broadband connections, software and computers for all children aged between seven and 19 in low income and jobless families starting from this... [06 Oct 2008]
Lost data total nears 30 million records
News January 2008: A CD which holds the names and addresses of 160,000 children is lost by the City and Hackney trust. September 2008: General Teaching Council (GTC) for England loses details on 11,423... [30 Sep 2008]
OLPC rivals get 'vicious'
News Giving laptops to school children in developing countries has had some unlikely effects, according to the OLPC exec. The hardware has also had a positive impact beyond the children - engaging parents and... [16 Sep 2008]
Create Great Classroom Presentations
White Paper Salinger, adding a presentation to the lesson can help children at all learning levels better retain information. Whether one is teaching a high school biology class about cell structure or a middle... [13 May 2008]
The Kentucky Department of Education Is Leveraging Information Technology to Take Educational Opportunities to New Heights With a Flexible, Robust and Secure Nortel Solution
White Paper Through the Kentucky Department of Education, the Office of Education Technology laid out its "2007-2012 Education Technology Master Plan" with the objectives of providing equal access to technology for all teachers and students,... [26 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Ageism, broadband row, ID cards…
Comment My children have already opened accounts and set up as many services as possible to avoid being forced to carry ID cards - we all used to live in a free country now we don't (CCTV surveillance, ID cards, 2003 licensing... [31 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…
Comment I see Gareth Evans falls into the usual trap of thinking that teaching computing is about teaching children how to use a number of pieces of software. Reader Comments of the Week... [17 Jan 2008]
Schools failing to harness tech potential
News But of the parents surveyed by the government's education technology agency Becta, 95 per cent said they feel technology is key to the education of their children. The vast majority of respondents (80 per cent) also said... [16 Jan 2008]
