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Student Peer Teaching Strategy  
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Student Peer Teaching Strategy is an innovative teaching strategy incorporating ICT into education. Peer Teaching is student centered and practices elements of ATLAS (Active Teaching and Learning Approaches in Science) Read more
Teaching multimedia in the offline world  
What would it be like to conduct a training workshop on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Education in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?..
Desktop virtualization as means of providing low-cost computers for schools  
The development community is experiencing an explosion of interest in providing low cost devices, such as laptops, to students in developing countries.
More on Autonomous Online Learning  
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Nik Peachey -9 October, 2008 - 10:18

In my last blog post here, I wrote about a new project I had started using a blog and publishing online activities that students can work on autonomously.

Investigation of the use of information and communication technologies for teacher education  
The Digital Education Enhancement Project (DEEP) is an applied research project exploring the ways in which information and communications technology (ICT) can improve access to, and the quality of, teacher education in the global south... Read more >>
A Study of Uses of ICT in Primary Education through Four Winning School Cases in the Taiwan Schools Cyberfair  
The purpose of this study was to understand, describe and interpret the uses of information communication technology (ICT) in primary education in the Taiwan Schools Cyberfair as a means to expand and enhance student learning in an extra-curricular setting... Read more >>
The Myth of Multitasking  
Used for decades to describe the parallel processing abilities of computers, multitasking is now shorthand for the human attempt to do simultaneously as many things as possible, as quickly as possible, preferably marshalling the power of as many technologies as possible... Read more >>
"Edupunk" Rocks the (Virtual) House  
"Edupunk" is an educational approach that combines creative drive with a maverick attitude, celebrating a kind of cocky, do-it-yourself confidence in which the educator—or possibly the student—designs the tools for teaching and learning. It speaks directly to the corporatization of education—and doesn't say nice things about it... Read more >>
Implementation of ICT in Higher Education as Interacting Activity Systems  
Implementation of ICT in higher education is not a trivial process. It is however a process leading to a number of challenges and problems. The paper develops a theoretical model of the implementation of ICT in higher education based on activity theory and on a case study in a Danish university. The model suggest that implementation in itself is an activity system. The implementation activity is composed of three processes: Selection of ICT; adaptation of ICT and change of practice with ICT.... Read more>>
June issue of Countdown  
The Progression grid is designed to help support teachers’ assessment judgements, based on evidence from the tasks and also on what pupils do in the classroom. It was originally developed to aid task development, but its usefulness as a tool providing support both for judgements teachers might make with pupils and for planning
future teaching and learning soon became apparent(PDF)... Read more
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