BBC NEWS | Education | Tech addiction 'harms learning'

BBC NEWS | Education | Tech addiction 'harms learning': "Technology addiction among young people is having a disruptive effect on their learning, researchers have warned.

Their report concluded that modern gadgets worsened pupils' spelling and concentration, encouraged plagiarism and disrupted lessons.

The study of 267 pupils aged 11 to 18 found 63% felt addicted to the internet and 53% to their mobile phones."

Social Sciences and Society - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com

Social Sciences and Society - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com: "Mr. Gardner’s favorite puzzles are the ones that require a sudden insight, like this one from his “aha! Insight” collection: How could you and a friend both stand on the same single sheet of newspaper in such a way that you can’t touch each other? (If you want to try this one out, I hope you’ll use a sheet from the Times.) Dr. Gardner believes that the evolution of that aha! pleasure has been crucial to human culture."

Birmingham Post - News - Education News - Birmingham schools seek PATH to better behaviour

Birmingham Post - News - Education News - Birmingham schools seek PATH to better behaviour: "Thousands of pupils at 30 selected primary schools in Birmingham are to take part in a mass social experiment aimed at improving their behaviour and interactive skills.

The two-year pilot, which is based on a programme developed in the US, is to commence immediately after the October half-term break.

At the end of the two years, children at the participating schools will be compared with pupils of a separate ‘control group’ of 30 primaries to see how their overall conduct has improved."

Visible Thoughts: The New Psychology of Body Language

Visible Thoughts: The New Psychology of Body Language

Human language, after the deluge, came about as an exchange of natural gestures to which vocalizations later became associated and Condillac attempted to describe how this process might have proceeded.

Your Thanet News

Your Thanet News: "Professor Frank Furedi of the University of Kent makes the claims in his new book – Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating – in which he delivers a damning report on the major issues impacting on our schools."

Book I read on Questia.com now

Visible Thought
The New Psychology of Body Language
by
Geoffrey Beattie

new theory of bodily communication, or at least of an important part of bodily communication, namely the movements of the hands and arms that people make when speaking. I will argue that such movements are not part of some system of communication completely divorced from speech, as many psychologists have assumed, rather they are intimately connected with speaking and with thinking.

A new model of learning - Winnipeg Free Press

A new model of learning - Winnipeg Free Press: "integrate the university into the cultural, educational and social fabric of the community under a new model known as 'community learning.' The phrase is a description of the work the university has done in throwing open its doors to groups that have traditionally felt excluded, notably aboriginals, and the use of its resources to address the full range of social, economic and environmental problems in the community."

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | The 'youngest headmaster in the world'

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | The 'youngest headmaster in the world': "At 16 years old, Babar Ali must be the youngest headmaster in the world. He's a teenager who is in charge of teaching hundreds of students in his family's backyard, where he runs classes for poor children from his village."

Minister rejects plan to start lessons at six - Education News, Education - The Independent

Minister rejects plan to start lessons at six - Education News, Education - The Independent