If teachers do one thing well, it’s share: content, curriculum, success (and failure) stories, and empathetic anecdotes. The future of education is already being explored and created at this very moment by teachers and education leaders who dare to disrupt rigid, outdated practices and attitudes and replace them with innovative tools, pedagogies, and ideas. Teachers from all ranges of experiences …
A new research-based app developed at USF will soon be accessible to K-12 students and teachers in an effort to bolster a more multilingual society. Sara Smith, assistant professor of ESOL and foreign language in the College of Education, created the patent-pending Multimedia Augmented Reality Vocabulary Learning (MARVL) app. The app is paired with special vocabulary cards by using the …
Imperial College Business School and Corndel have launched a new strategic partnership that brings together the academic excellence of a world-leading business school and the expertise of the country’s leading professional apprenticeship provider. The partnership will result in the creation of several world-class, high-impact training courses. In England these can be fully funded through the Government’s Apprenticeship Levy. The first …
Welcoming more than 50 participants this year, the University of South Florida (USF) CyberCamp enables high schoolers to learn about cybersecurity principles and take on cyber challenges while engaging with industry leaders in the Tampa Bay community. For one week each summer, high students participating in USF CyberCamp get a first-hand look at what it’s like to be a cybersecurity …
Unless you have been hiding under a rock this year, you’ve heard of Wordle. It has been thrilling to see a puzzle’s popularity explode and dominate the national conversation. This doesn’t happen often! Today’s challenges are for those of you caught up in the craze. If you enjoy Wordle’s playful mixture of pattern spotting, logical reasoning and vocab-hunting, these puzzles will …
While the debate is not new to the world of librarianship, the controversy about which books should be allowed to grace the shelves of a school library has become a common topic of conversation on news channels, talk shows and school board meetings. At its heart, the dialogue digs into which books school librarians should make available to their students. …
A conference proceeding paper, titled ‘Place based learning in skills in schools and science teacher education programmes: Student perspectives to moving learning online due to Covid-19’ is recently published by AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society) – an international, interdisciplinary research organisation which sets out to highlight the built environment as intrinsic to those at the heart of other social, cultural and political discourses. The …
1. The Edublogger Starting off with a meta entry – The Edublogger is a great repository of advice, thought-starters and beginner guides for educational blogging. It’s filled with plenty of practical tips you can put into action immediately, or pass on to your students. 2. School Library Association of Victoria SLAV runs an online book club that’s excellent for feeling part of a …
We are very pleased at the publication of this double-length special issue in Teaching in Higher Education. In the original call for papers, we claimed that, despite high levels of interest in the ‘decolonial turn’, little has been written in higher education journals on how and to what extent the supremacy of Western modernity is actually being challenged in knowledge production in different disciplines, …
Education can come in all forms. Education is the most important thing in the present time. The internet has globalized education, and many people from different countries can discuss and share their knowledge with us. If you search on the internet, you can find some useful portals or educational blogs, which are very popular and discussing all the points that …