“The last exam board in England offering art history A-level will drop the subject from 2018, marking the latest in a cull of perceived “soft” subjects following the curriculum changes begun by the former education secretary Michael Gove” ─ Read …
BBC News: Teachers ‘wasting time on marking in coloured pens’
“Teachers are spending too much time over-marking pupils’ homework,” Schools Standards Minister Nick Gibb has said. Marking in different-coloured pens, and giving feedback in exercise books, had never been a government or an Ofsted requirement. The practice was adding to …
Engadget UK: The first website went online 25 years ago today
If the web were a person, it wouldn’t have trouble renting a car from now on: the world’s first website, Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web, went online 25 years ago today. The inaugural page wasn’t truly public when it went live at CERN …
Math teacher training in South Africa | IRIS Connect
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Student debts wipe out most graduate pay premiums – report – BBC News
“Politicians should stop using a “carrot of higher graduate earnings” to justify raising student fees or freezing repayment thresholds, say campaigners.” ─ Read item ─
The History of Mr. Papert
This article outlines the life and career of Seymour A. Papert through the mid-1990s. We follow the development of Papert from his early formal and informal education in the South Africa of the 1930’s through to his sage era in …
Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88 | MIT News
MIT News: Seymour Papert, whose ideas and inventions transformed how millions of children around the world create and learn, died Sunday at his home in East Blue Hill, Maine. He was 88. ─ Read item ─