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Demos Publishes Report on School-Aged Learners
London (UK), March 2007 - Demos, the UK thinktank for everyday democracy, published an eighty-page report entitled "Their Space: Education for a Digital Generation", written by Hannah Green and Celia Hannon. The report, which focuses on school-aged learners, questions some of the myths that dominate current thinking about technology and education. » MORE
BECTA Approval for Comic-strip Learning
York (UK), February 2007 - BECTA, the government agency that supports UK education departments in their strategic ICT developments, has approved the use of the interactive comic-strip software program Storywriter Toolkit. » MORE
ETS Europe will Realise National Test Programmes
Berlin (GER), February 2007 - ETS Europe has been awarded the contract for the handling of a survey of British learning levels by the National Assessment Agency (NAA), which is responsible for the carrying out of tests for the national curriculum. The contract, covering the years 2008 until 2010, has a budget of 156 million pounds. » MORE
Give up the Teacher's Monopoly on Teaching
Copenhagen (DK), February 2007 - (by Tonny Hansen) The trade cog is leaving Lübeck, loaded with Flemish linen and barrels of tar bound for Bergen, where a cargo of iron ore is waiting for a vessel to bring it on to Stralsund. The 6th graders in the Höjby school in Odense, Denmark are having great fun during their history lessons. Teacher and school librarian Ella Myhring has introduced them to both facts about the medieval Hansa League and to the computer game Patricia III. Those seem to be a good combination, for although the activities of the class seem to involve a lot of playing, they bring the pupils up to curriculum standards. » MORE
Digital Literacy for Romanian Schools
Bucharest (RO), February 2007 - (by Elena Lita) Between 2007 and 2010, 251 Romanian communities will benefit from Local Communities Electronic Networks (LCEN), as knowledge centers for offering citizens information and online services through the Knowledge Economy Project. The new rural and small urban communities will join the already-existing nine pilot communities. The project was initiated by the Romanian government with the support of the World Bank and coordinated by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Diana Voicu, Knowledge Economy Project Management Unit Director, talks about the goals of the project she coordinates. » MORE
To Provide Children with Education Anywhere
Ardmore, OK (USA), February 2007 - Nick van Dam Ph.D. is the Global Chief Learning Officer for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. He is an internationally recognized thought leader in Learning and Human Resources Development and the author of "The eLearning Fieldbook" (2004 and Mandarin edition, 2006) and "The Business Impact of eLearning" (2005). CHECKpoint eLearning met up with Nick at the Online Educa Berlin conference, which he attended in support of eLearning for Kids (EFK), a non-profit organization he founded in 2004. Nick was kind enough to answer several questions for us. » MORE
Negroponte's Dream: a Laptop for Each Child
Munich (GER), February 2007 - Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association, has a challenging vision: He wants to provide all children in developing countries with a laptop and free Internet access to support them in learning. In his eyes, this project isn't just a laptop project but an educational project. Many problems in the world, like the population explosion and the climate crisis, are connected with education. "Some important people have said it cannot be done; some said it should not be done. Both are wrong. We are doing it", Negroponte said. "Education is the key to solve those problems." » MORE
A New Learning-Platform Services Framework
Science Park (UK), January 2007 - Becta has launched a new Learning Platform Services Framework. The framework provides UK schools, colleges and local authorities with an EU-approved supplier network to deliver high quality, value-for-money learning platform services. » MORE
Best Practice Manual Available
Roosbeck (B), December 2006 - Based on the experiences gathered during Citizen E, an EU-funded project to improve teachers' ICT skills, the project partners have written a Best Practice Manual available for download now. » MORE
Qaddafi's Computer Kids
Tripoli (Libya), November 2006 -The government of Libya has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit United States group developing an inexpensive educational laptop computer, with the goal of supplying machines to all 1.2 million Libyan schoolchildren by June 2008. » MORE
