Creativity for life
- By Om Varma
- Published 1/07/2009
- Education Today , Teaching Strategies , Lesson Plans and Teaching Aids , Useful Links for Teachers , Educational Activities , Thinking Skills , Teaching
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It's all about exploring creativity in your everyday life. Very useful for teachers!
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peter senge and the learning organization
- By Om Varma
- Published 7/04/2008
- Teaching Strategies
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Peter Senge’s vision of a learning organization as a group of people who are continually enhancing their capabilities to create what they want to create has been deeply influential. We discuss the five disciplines he sees as central to learning organizations and some issues and questions concerning the theory and practice of learning organizations.
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Guide to students and teachers on brainstorming, building consensus etc..
- By Om Varma
- Published 7/09/2006
- Teaching Strategies
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It is important that we instruct students not only to do the subject matter assignments, but also processes that allow them to be more efficient. This site offers guides designed for student use.
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Apple Learning Interchange
- By Om Varma
- Published 7/09/2006
- Teaching Strategies
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The new Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) is a set of free resources for educators that provides a single access point to find media and ideas for classroom activities produced by their peers, by Apple, and by Apple content affiliates like NASA, The Smithsonian, and the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Educators can connect with each other through simple searching, messaging, iChat and collaborative publication tools, and they can submit projects as simple as classroom snapshots or as complex as multi-page abstracts for assessment, enhancement, and peer review.
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'Real-life' lessons used in maths'
- By MIE News
- Published 28/06/2006
- Teaching Strategies
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'Real-life' lessons used in maths'
Source: BBC- Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 12:59 GMT 13:59 UK
Football, fashion and the Olympics are being used in new "real-life" lesson plans intended to keep England's teenagers interested in maths.
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Available at the MIE: "Using football to teach sociological concepts- An Action Research" conducted during the 1998 World Cup and "Using cartoons and movies to teaching sociological concepts" Researcher used cartoons and two movies, Happiest Days of my Life and Titanic.
If you need further information, you can e-mail omvarma@intnet.mu
Available at the MIE: "Using football to teach sociological concepts- An Action Research" conducted during the 1998 World Cup and "Using cartoons and movies to teaching sociological concepts" Researcher used cartoons and two movies, Happiest Days of my Life and Titanic.
If you need further information, you can e-mail omvarma@intnet.mu
College professor tries to ease friction of learning physics
- By Om Varma
- Published 30/12/2005
- Teaching Strategies
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College professor tries to ease friction of learning physics
Source: ELIZABETH DAVIES, Rockford Register Star
FREEPORT — The corkboard outside Eric Peterson’s office is littered with clipped-out cartoons, most with a science or weather-related punch line.
Make lessons 'fit the learner'
- By Om Varma
- Published 29/12/2005
- Teaching Strategies
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Make lessons 'fit the learner'
Source: BBC:Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 16:14 GMT
The education system "should be reversed to conform to the learner, rather than the learner to the system", says a think-tank report.
Yahoo backs digital library plan
- By Om Varma
- Published 3/10/2005
- Teaching Strategies
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Yahoo backs digital library plan
Spurce: BBC,Monday, 3 October 2005, 10:58 GMT 11:58 UK Yahoo is taking on Google with its own digital archive of books, audio and video.
Diary of a laptop school pupil
- By Om Varma
- Published 3/10/2005
- Teaching Strategies
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Diary of a laptop school pupil
Source: BBC, Monday, 3 October 2005, 07:33 GMT 08:33 UK Sarah Murrin is a student at Empire High School in Arizona that is swapping school books for Apple laptops. Here she describes a typical day in her school life.
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US school swaps books for bytes
- By Om Varma
- Published 3/10/2005
- Teaching Strategies
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US school swaps books for bytes
Source: BBC, Monday, 3 October 2005, 07:32 GMT 08:32 UK A school in Arizona, US, has thrown out its paper-based text books and is relying solely on laptops and digital material to teach its pupils.
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