CONFERENCE-3E Conference - Inaugural ECSB Entrepreneurship Education Conference

3E Conference - Inaugural ECSB Entrepreneurship Education Conference Aarhus, Denmark on 29–31 May 2013

http://www.3e2013.org/

Welcome to 3E Conference!

The past decades have borne witness to a rapid increase in the offerings of entrepreneurship education across Europe. There is an explicit political agenda both at the national level and at the EU level to promote entrepreneurship education at all levels of the school system because policy makers expect that entrepreneurial skills to be the key to enhancing an innovative culture, which in turn will result in higher competitiveness and economic growth. However, in order to achieving these objectives it is important that educational systems and methods move from traditional to creative, interactive and student-centred educational models that will help change student mindset and prepare students for the challenges of the future.


Through an innovative and untraditional format, the conference establishes a new paradigm for entrepreneurship conferences. It offers an exclusive and engaging opportunity for researchers, educators and politicians to debate and exchange their experiences of the major challenges and advances in enterprise education with a special and unique focus on Europe. Unlike more traditional academic events, the conference will focus on problems and questions rather than on ready-made solutions and presentations of research findings. There will be an award for the best question.

Who should attend: Potential participants include entrepreneurship education researchers, research-based educators from both tertiary and secondary institutions as well as trainers and policy makers.

CONFERENCE- IVth international congress on the anthropological theory of didactics (ATD)

21-26 Apr 2013 Toulouse (France)

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS OF THE RELATION TO MATHEMATICS AND OTHER KNOWLEDGES AT SCHOOL AND IN SOCIETY

This international conference is organised under the auspices of the IUFM (Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres; teacher professional development institute) Midi-Pyrénées, an affiliated school of the University Toulouse 2, and is supported in particular by [1]:

– The Mixed Unit of Research EFTS (education, professional development, work, knowledge);
– The Research commission of IUFM and especially CCLEPODI (curricula, skills, language, assessment, versatility, didactics of the disciplines, interdisciplinarity);
– The Department MEFST IUFM (professions in education and training in science and technology);
– The ARDM (Association for Research in Didactics of Mathematics).

The scientific focus of the conference
Today, the Anthropological Theory of the Didactical (ATD) holds a strong position on research on the didactics of mathematics as well as the didactics of other disciplines.
Since 2005, three international conferences have been held on this subject. The first was held in Baeza (Spain) in 2005, the second took place in Uzès (France) in 2007, and the third in Sant Hilari Sacalm (Spain) in 2010. The 3rd conference was organised by the Mathematics Research Center of Catalonia, which also published the proceedings.

Like the preceding conferences, this conference brings together researchers who work or wish to work [2] within the frame of ATD with the following objectives:

- Establishing an overview of the results and the progress of ATD concerning both basic research and the development of education and teachers’ training systems ;
- Developing a research programme around the most pertinent open problems, whether related to problems affecting education systems or the development of didactics as a scientific discipline ;
- Identifying and studying the specific problems raised by the extension of ATD conceptual and methodological tools to other fields.

The 4th conference should be of significant importance for symbolic as well as scientific reasons. On the one hand, the awarding of the Hans Freudenthal Medal to Yves Chevallard (awarded at the ICME conference in july 2012 in Seoul) exemplarily marks the prominent role of this research program in the world panorama of didactics of mathematics [3]. On the other hand, it should in particular promote research on the conditions and constraints that affect the current historic crisis which influences school and university mathematics as well as other disciplines in many countries. This crisis is associated with an apparently systematic undervaluation of the contributions of research in the field of didactics, which therefore remains largely unknown.

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The Rise of Teaching Machines

At Arizona State University, a high-tech teaching tool with roots in the pre-Internet 1950s has created a bit of a buzz. "I think it's going to be quite good," says Philip Regier, dean of ASU Online. "Looking forward to it," says Arthur Blakemore, senior vice provost of the university. "I'm excited," says Irene Bloom, a senior lecturer in mathematics at the downtown campus.

All are anticipating this summer's debut of Knewton, a new computerized-learning program that features immediate feedback and adaptation to students' learning curves. The concept can be traced back a half-century or so to a "teaching machine" invented by the psychologist B.F. Skinner, then a professor at Harvard University. Based on principles of learning he developed working with pigeons, Skinner came up with a boxlike mechanical device that fed questions to students, rewarding correct answers with fresh academic material; wrong answers simply got them a repeat of the old question. "The student quickly learns to be right," Skinner said.

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CONFERENCE-WLEC - Women's Leadership and Empowerment Conference 2013

WLEC - Women's Leadership and Empowerment Conference 2013
13-15 March 2013
Bangkok, Thailand
Website: http://www.tomorrowpeople.org/womens-leadership-conference-2013.html

Dear Scholars, Students, NGO and governmental representatives:

We are happy to announce WLEC 2013, hosted by Tomorrow People Organization (www.tomorrowpeople.org).

This highly exciting and challenging international Conference is intended to be a forum, discussion and networking place for academics, researchers, professionals, administrators, educational leaders, policy makers, industry representatives, advanced students and others interested in leadership, women empowerment and gender studies.

More specifically, it targets:

Scholars: Share your research, learn some new approaches, hear about others' experiences and pass on your knowledge and experience on to others.

Government officials and policy makers: Learn about the best practices, educational development strategies and educational systems around the world; network with other policy makers and NGOs working in the field of supporting the educational development.

NGOs: Network with other international NGOs, possible donors and colleagues from around the world and share your achievements and strategies with others.

Graduate students: Meet your colleagues from around the world, make new friends, and improve your knowledge and communication skills.

Company representatives: Chance to improve your leadership skills, learn more about the importance of permanent education in achieving the high performances of your organization, meet your colleagues, exchange ideas and establish new connections and partnerships.

Others: Anyone who is interested in making some positive changes around them and gaining new knowledge, skills and friends and becoming more useful to their own communities.

4th Annual Women's Leadership and Empowerment Conference will provide unlimited resources and opportunities to interact with prominent leaders in the field of leadership and women studies and greatly expand on your global network of scholars and professionals.

We welcome: ORAL, POSTER and VIRTUAL presentations. Early submissions are strongly encouraged due to limited space in the venue, as applications are reviewed on a rolling admission basis - as long as space is available.

The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Casual factors of leadership development, Can leadership be learned? âАУ Nature vs. nurture, Cross cultural aspects of leadership, Family Systems: Change and Traditions, Leadership styles and techniques, Leadership values, Leading under extreme diversity, Women and leadership, Women with Disabilities, Shaping the future by female leaders, Creating an innovative leadership, Growing as individuals, Creating a new relationship with your values, especially money, Success Stories: Meet women who have achieved successful careers, Women and Sports, Women as Entrepreneurs, Women and Environment, Women in Politics, The Role of Women in Contemporary Society, Women and Culture, Role Reversal in the Home and Workplace, other related areas of gender and leadership studies.

Papers presented at the conference will be published in dedicated ISBN publication of WLEC 2013 Conference Proceedings.

We look forward to seeing you in Bangkok in March 2013, as one of our participants, coming from over 40 countries worldwide!

Sincerely,

Jovana Savic
Program Manager
WLEC 2013 Organizing Committee
Email: contact@tomorrowepople.org, jsavic@tomorrowpeople.org

CONFERENCE-Belgrade International Conference on Education

BICE 2012 - Belgrade International Conference on Education
15-17 November 2012
Belgrade, Serbia
Venue: Hotel Moscow
Website: http://www.biceducation.org
Sponsored by: Tomorrow People Organization and Metropolitan University Belgrade

Dear Scholars, Students, NGO and governmental representatives:

We are happy to announce BICE 2012, hosted by Tomorrow People Organization (www.tomorrowpeople.org)

This highly exciting and challenging international Conference is intended to be a forum, discussion and networking place for academics, researchers, professionals, administrators, educational leaders, policy makers, industry representatives, advanced students, and others interested in Education.

More specifically, it targets:

Scholars: Share your research, learn some new approaches, hear about others' experiences and pass on your knowledge and experience.

Government officials and policy makers: Learn about the best practices, educational development strategies and educational systems around the world; network with other policy makers and NGOs working in the field of supporting educational development.

NGOs: Network with other international NGOs, possible donors and colleagues from around the world and share your achievements and strategies with others.

Graduate students: Meet your colleagues from around the world, make new friends, and improve your knowledge and communication skills.

Company representatives: This is a chance to improve your leadership skills, learn more about the importance of permanent education in achieving the high performances of your organization, meet your colleagues, exchange ideas and establish new connections and partnerships.

Others: Anyone who is interested in making some positive changes around them and gaining new knowledge, skills and friends and becoming more useful to their own communities.

Belgrade International Conference on Education will provide unlimited resources and opportunities to interact with prominent leaders in the field of education and greatly expand on your global network of scholars and professionals.

We welcome: ORAL, POSTER and VIRTUAL presentations. Early submissions are strongly encouraged due to limited space in the venue, as applications are reviewed on a rolling admission basis - as long as space is available.

The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Adult Education, Arts Education, Anthropology and Education, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Educational Systems and Policy, Educational Psychology, Environmental Education, Gender and Education, Guidance and Counseling, Health Education, Higher Education, History of Education, IT and Education, Language Education and Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Mathematics Education, Mentoring and Coaching, Multicultural Issues in Education, Philosophy of Education, Physical Education, Primary Education, Quality in Education, Race, Ethnicity and Education, Research and Development, Rural Education, Science Education, Secondary Education, Sociology of Education, Special and Inclusive Education, Teacher Education, Values and Education, Vocational Education and Training, Other areas of Education

Papers presented at the conference will be published in a dedicated ISBN publication of BICE2012 Conference Proceedings.

We look forward to seeing you in Belgrade in November 2012, as one of our participants, coming from over 60 countries worldwide!

Sincerely,

BICE2012 Organizing Committee
Email: conference@biceducation.org

CONFERENCE-E-Learn 2012 : World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education

E-Learn 2012 : World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education
9th to 12th October 2012
Montreal, Canada

E-Learn serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of information on research, development, and applications of all topics related to e-Learning in the Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education sectors.

Enquiries: conf@aace.org
Web address: http://aace.org/conf/elearn
Sponsored by: AACE - Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

10 Ways Researchers Can Use Twitter

Salma Patel prepared a very interesting prezi presentation for researchers to engage them to social media especially twitter.

I hope you greatly appreciated it.

10 Ways Researchers Can Use Twitter

Learning higher education lessons from China

In the early 1980s, India had quantitatively and qualitatively more infrastructure than China. Until the last decade, India’s higher education outperformed its Chinese counterpart – both quantitatively and qualitatively – and China retained its long-term lead in primary education.

But the situation is altogether different today, as China now dominates in ‘soft infrastructure’ areas too, which include higher education.

Higher education development in India and China closely parallels their economic growth over the past couple of decades.

Higher education in India struggles with moderate reactive growth, whereas China achieves higher growth and is proactive in its goals; in no small measure, this derives from the fact that the Chinese system is more directly focused on quality than India’s.

China is a unique case in higher education development. In 2010 China achieved a gross enrolment ratio of 30% in higher education, up from an abysmally low 3% to 4% in 1990. India barely improved its enrolment ratio in the same 20-year period, moving from less than 10% to 15% enrolment.

But these figures are somewhat misleading because they do not clearly show the effects of India’s population, which is younger than China’s. Fifty percent of India’s population is under 25 years of age and thus has not yet entered the tertiary sector.
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CONFERENCE-Excellence in Professional Practice

Overview

17 and 18 March 2013,

Gold Coast, Queensland

Excellence in Professional Practice Conference 2013.
Teaching the Australian Curriculum: Excellence and innovation in the classroom.

ACER invites you to see, hear, talk and learn from the best in the profession.

ACER presents this inaugural "Excellence in Professional Practice" conference for teachers. This conference celebrates excellence in teachers’ professional practice by drawing together teachers from across Australia to observe, listen to, talk with, share expertise and learn from one another.

We believe that teachers learn the most powerful lessons from other teachers. This conference is designed to showcase best practice in Teaching the Australian Curriculum from classrooms across the country.

Education authorities, professional associations and peak bodies will be invited to nominate teachers whose classroom practice demonstrates excellence and innovation in teaching the Australian Curriculum.

A full program of nominated presentations will be available in November 2012 on this website.

The conference will combine:
inspiring keynote presentations,
workshops
poster presentations demonstrating and discussing leading classroom practice,
casual and formal networking opportunities including ‘birds of a feather’ sessions.


This teacher focused conference will support collaboration and knowledge sharing in a friendly, informal and lively atmosphere.

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CONFERENCE-Global Conference on Education, Business, Engineering and Sciences (GCEBES 2012)

Global Conference on Education, Business, Engineering and Sciences (GCEBES 2012)

24th to 26th October 2012

Singapore, Singapore

(GCEBES 2012) is a multi-disciplinary research conference which will be held at the Marina Bay Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore on October 24-26, 2012. The conference is expected to convene delegates from over 75 countries.


Enquiries: singaporeconference@iamure.ph

Web address: http://iamure.ph

Sponsored by: International Association of Multidisciplinary Research

How to get Published?

Publishing in Academic Journals. Tips to help you succeed.
http://vimeo.com/21687973

Educating Harvard, MIT — and the world!

Every year, bright students around the world dream of a chance to debate ideas in a Harvard classroom or conduct experiments in an MIT laboratory — an opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds in fields from the humanities to engineering to the social sciences.

Soon, as leaders of both universities announced today, all an eager student will need is a modem and a mouse.

EdX, a new online education platform, will draw on the faculty, research, and institutional backing of both universities to provide Harvard andMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) courses to users around the world. The partnership will not only build on both universities’ ongoing work in online education, but will provide a treasure trove of data on how students learn and how to teach them most effectively.

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CONFERENCE-The Fourth Asian Conference on Education (ACE)

ACE - The Fourth Asian Conference on Education
24th to 28th October 2012
Osaka, Japan

The International Academic Forum in partnership with Waseda University (Japan), Birkbeck University of London (UK), The National Institute of Education (Singapore), The National University of Tainan (Taiwan), Lincoln University (UK), the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and its global partners is proud to announce the Fourth Annual Asian Conference on Education, to be held from October 24 - 28 2012, in Osaka, Japan.

ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

The Asian Conference on Education is an interdisciplinary international conference that invites academics and independent scholars and researchers from around the world to meet and exchange the latest ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue. Since its inception in 2009, ACE has welcomed over one thousand academics and practitioners to its annual Osaka event. The 2012 conference will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education. Academics working in Japan and Asia will be encouraged to forge working relationships with each other, as well as with colleagues from Europe and the US, facilitating partnerships across borders.

ACE 2012 Keynote Speaker:
Professor Katsuhiko Shirai
Chairman, The Open University of Japan and Executive Advisor for Academic Affairs, Waseda University

ACE 2012 Featured Speaker:
Professor Joshua Mok
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, The Hong Kong Institute of Education

ACE 2012 Conference Co-Chair:
Professor Sue Jackson
Birkbeck, University of London

ACE 2012 Conference Co-Chair and Featured Speaker:
Professor Michiko Nakano
Waseda University

Enquiries: ace@iafor.org
Web address: http://ace.iafor.org/index.html
Sponsored by: IAFOR

CONFERENCE-5th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2012)

ICERI2012
5th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
19th, 20th and 21st of November, 2012
Madrid (Spain)
Website: www.iceri2012.org
Email: iceri2012@iated.org

Abstracts submission deadline: July 19th, 2012
You can submit your abstract at www.iceri2012.org/submit

ICERI2012 is an annual meeting point for lecturers, researchers, technologists and educators from all fields and disciplines. It will be an excellent opportunity to present your projects and experiences and meet other colleagues from all parts of the world.

The attendance of more than 700 delegates from 70 different countries is expected.

There are 3 presentation modalities: ORAL, POSTER and VIRTUAL.

The deadline for abstracts submission is July 19th 2012 (included). You can submit your proposals at www.iceri2012.org/submit

Two ISBN publications (ICERI2012 Abstracts CD and ICERI2012 Proceedings CD) will be produced with all accepted abstracts and papers. Accepted contributions will also be included in our Digital Library database of Education and Research innovation projects.

In addition, you will be able to enjoy the beautiful and attractive city of Madrid, its enormous cultural richness and unique gastronomy.

We look forward to seeing you in Madrid!

ICERI2012 Technical Secretariat
Email: iceri2012@iated.org

Titles are the hardest thing: How can we make them more effective?

James Hartley argues that new large-scale research on titles doesn’t tell us much more than we already know. Effective titles attract and inform readers, and do this in a variety of different ways.

 A colleague in my department thinks that if he uses a colon in the title of an article he is writing then the article will be accepted more readily, and cited more frequently, than if he does not. Where has he got this notion from?  A once carefully qualified statement in some research paper has now become a blind article of faith. True enough there is research on the effectiveness of such colonic titles, but it is not that convincing. But rumour and hearsay are powerful things.

Research on titlesThe research on titles can be summarised as follows:

• Almost all of the research takes place in the science and medical fields
• Most of it was done before the advent of electronic counting
• There is research on the effectiveness of grammatical features, such as colons question marks, the results of which I summarise below, and
• There is also research on different types of titles, and on which kinds of title readers prefer.

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CONFERENCE-Global Conference on Education

Global Conference on Education

16 to 17 November 2012

Los Angeles Metro, United States

The GCE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and
practices in education. The GCE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and
professionals from Education.

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 20 October 2012.

Enquiries: edconference@uofriverside.com

Web address: http://www.uofriverside.com/edconference.html

Sponsored by: Universİty of Riverside

CONFERENCE-5th International Conference of Education Research and Innovation (ICERI2012)

19th, 20th and 21st of November, 2012.

Madrid (Spain)

Website: http://www.iceri2012.org/

Email: iceri2012@iated.org

Abstracts submission deadline: July 19th, 2012

You can submit your abstract at www.iceri2012.org/submit

ICERI2012 is an annual meeting point for lecturers, researchers, technologists and educators from all fields and disciplines. It will be an excellent opportunity to present your projects and experiences and meet other colleagues from all parts of the world.

The attendance of more than 700 delegates from 70 different countries is expected.

There are 3 presentation modalities: ORAL, POSTER and VIRTUAL.

The deadline for abstracts submission is July 19th 2012 (included). You can submit your proposals at

www.iceri2012.org/submit

Two ISBN publications (ICERI2012 Abstracts CD and ICERI2012 Proceedings CD) will be produced with all accepted abstracts and papers. Accepted contributions will also be included in our Digital Library database of Education and Research innovation projects.

In addition, you will be able to enjoy the beautiful and attractive city of Madrid, its enormous cultural richness and unique gastronomy.

FIRST FEMALE ENGINEER AT GOOGLE

Marissa Mayer on discovering computer science, taking a risk on Google, and pushing past fear.


http://www.makers.com/marissa-mayer?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000034

CONFERENCE-The 1st International Conference of the Outdoor Learning Environment (ICOLE)

We are pleased to announce a new conference, ICOLE: the 1st International Conference of the Outdoor Learning Environment, to be held February 3 - 8, 2013, in Israel. This unique conference will take participants all over Israel, as we explore different outdoor learning environments in the context of educational research. It is geared towards establishing a community of researchers who incorporate the outdoors into their work, in any discipline.

We are trying to reach as wide an audience as possible: geography, math, history, science, the arts, etc. Please feel free to distribute the ICOLE website to fellow researchers and colleagues in other educational fields as well. Participation is limited to the first 80 accepted proposals (due September 1, 2012) and will be accepted on a rolling basis.

http://www.weizmann.ac.il/conferences/ICOLE/

OECD Skills Strategy

The global transformation, often called the "21st century skills" movement is helping move schools closer to learning designs that better prepare students for success in learning, work and life. The OECD Skills Strategy is responding to this by shifting the focus from a quantitative notion of human capital, measured in years of formal education, to the skills people actually acquire, enhance and nurture over their lifetimes.


http://prezi.com/5vqk_-pdpvh4/oecd-skills-strategy/

What’s the Best Way to Encourage Kids?

Around kitchen tables, in school hallways, from the sidelines of playing fields, the exhortations ring out: “You can do it!” “The sky’s the limit!” “Go for the gold!”

Raising the aspirations of children—especially those who are economically disadvantaged—has been a popular prescription for many years, and it’s not hard to see why. What could be wrong with encouraging kids to set their sights high?

But “what has been missing,” write a group of British researchers in a report released last month, “is any evidence that the recommended initiatives actually lead to the outcomes assumed by the policy.” The report, produced for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, reviewed programs designed to bolster students’ goals for the future.

“The widespread emphasis on raising aspirations,” the team concludes, “does not seem to be a good foundation for policy or practice.” What we need, they add, is “a shift in emphasis from ‘raising aspirations’ to ‘keeping aspirations on track. ”

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http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/05/whats-the-best-way-to-encourage-kids/

CONFERENCE-Reason, Reasons and Reasoning 2013

Reason, Reasons and Reasoning 11th to 12th October 2013 Flint, United States of America Conference in which papers discuss the concept of reason, considering problems in understanding human reasoning and the implication for presuming humans to be reasoning animals. Papers from many academic disciplines and professions welcome. Enquiries: anderson@cognethic.org Web address: http://www.cognethic.org/conference.htm Sponsored by: Center for Cognition and Neuroethics

Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences

Multiple Intelligences Thrive in Smartville

Take a stroll down the bustling streets of Smartville, USA, and you'll see students bringing mailbags full of letters from the Smartville Post Office to Reading Road and Artistic Avenue. They're working as tellers at the Smartville Savings and Learn, expanding their palates at the Smartville Culinary Arts Institute, and painting and sculpting at the Metropolitan Museum of Smart. Reporters cover local news in the Smartville Times, and clerks at the Little Elephant Depot provide tools that citizens need to do their jobs each day. Learning is the universal occupation here, but everyone in Smartville does that job a little differently.

Smartville is the Enota Multiple Intelligences Academy, a charter elementary school, in Gainesville, Georgia. The nickname embodies the schoolwide philosophy: At Enota, the theory that everyone possesses unique talents and aptitudes isn't just accepted and celebrated, it's an integral part of school culture. Kid-friendly labels for Howard Gardner's eight intelligences -- punchy interpretations like "word smart," "body smart," or "nature smart" -- pervade the school, appearing in hallway signs and classroom conversations. The real-world activities afforded by the school's village persona, staff members say, allow students to explore and express the multiple ways of being smart.

Education and Blue Man Group

They did a really nice work in their new preschool...They prepared a school environment which supports creativity. 

Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning

There are really nice alternatives to teach science and design together in schools. It does not cost to much to create supplementary educational  tools and products every time, there are cheap and convenient ways.


Arvind Gupta shares simple yet stunning plans for turning trash into seriously entertaining, well-designed toys that kids can build themselves -- while learning basic principles of science and design.


It is a very inspiring and beautiful presentation.


Watch the video from here.

"And somewhere there are engineers
Helping others fly faster than sound.
But, where are the engineers
Helping those who must live on the ground?"

   

--   Young Oxfam Poster

from his website.

A Japanese-inspired approach to teaching is expanding in the Bay Area

lesson study

Commonly practiced in Japan, lesson study is a method for helping teachers develop their skills through cycles of collaboration, observation and reflection. A group of teachers designs a lesson and then observes students as it is being delivered. Teachers regroup, assess how the children responded to the lesson and refine it. The idea is for teachers to take the insight gleaned from that research and apply it to their teaching practice.
More information is available at the Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative website -- www.svmimac.org -- and Mills College's lesson study site: www.lessonresearch.net.

A Japanese-inspired approach to teaching is expanding in the Bay Area

As the national school reform narrative zeros in on rewarding the best teachers and sorting out the bad apples, a quieter effort to shore up the teaching practice has taken root in some Bay Area schools.

It's called "lesson study," a Japanese-inspired teaching model in which groups of teachers plan, observe and refine -- and sometimes, reteach -- a lesson, based on how the children respond to it.

Rather than observing the teacher, research team members (consisting mostly of classroom teachers) train their focus on the students, recording moments of confusion, clarity and enthusiasm before reconvening to dissect the lesson they had created together. The idea is for teachers to take what they've learned from that one lesson and apply it more broadly.

"Often a very subtle difference in the question or the presentation of a lesson can make a huge difference in what children learn from it," said Catherine Lewis, a Mills College education professor who has researched lesson study for more than a decade.

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Divergent Thinking

There is really inspiring video of divergent thinking from Ken Robinson. How education affects divergent thinking? Are you ready to get the surprising answer!

A small part from presentation of RSA video.

CONFERENCE-ISATT 2013 Conference

ISATT 2013 Conference

16th Biennal Conference on Teachers and Teaching

Excellence of teachers?
Practice, policy, research

The quality of teachers and teacher education is at the forefront of policy and practice related discussions. Decision makers consider "Excellence" in teaching and teacher education as a critical characteristic. At the same time, they put forward new requirements, new competency frameworks, assessment criteria, quality indicators, … they require to be met. But do we need standards for excellence? Where does the urge for excellence in actual educational policy come from, what logic or agenda does it speak for and what are the consequences for how teachers/teacher educators are supposed to think about themselves?

Regulation is a commonly found concept in the fora about teacher quality and teacher education. The question is whether teachers and teacher educators have a "grounded" answer to these changing circumstances? Can we build on an evidence-base about our teacher quality, about the excellence in teacher educators, about the "quality" of our teacher education programs? Can we counter the debate about regulation of the teaching profession with ways that build on self-regulation?

"Excellence of teachers?" as the central theme of the ISATT 2013 conference builds on urgent issues that address practitioners, teacher educators and researchers. In these discussions policy makers can become a partner when we have consistent answers and pathways available. This implies that the teacher and teacher education community should address at least the question about "excellence" themselves.

http://www.isatt2013.ugent.be/

Bridging the socio-economic divide between public and private schools

Bridging the socio-economic divide between public and private schools

by Marilyn Achiron
Editor, Directorate for Education

Several months ago, we describedhow PISA results show that, when it comes to the question of private versus public schooling, it’s the students who make the school. Both private schools and public schools with student populations from socio-economically advantaged backgrounds benefit the individual students who attend them. But PISA results also showed that there is no evidence to suggest that the proportion of private schools in a country, in and of itself, is associated with higher performance of the school system as a whole.

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One Laptop per Child: Disappointing results?

Summary: Is the One Laptop per Child scheme producing the results we expected?

Simply purchasing a device such as a laptop and handing it to a child is unlikely to turn them into the next Zuckerburg. However, it can teach them basic, valuable skills that will assist them when it is time to leave education and support themselves by joining the work force.

At least, this is the view from Peru, where the largest program involving One Laptop per Child, an American charity’s scheme currently operates. Active in more than 30 developing countries across the globe, the aim of the project is to provide children with access to a laptop for educational purposes.

However, according to an evaluation of the scheme’s success by the Inter-American Development Bank(IDB), the results may not be as promising as we may have hoped.

Peru is one of the few places that is currently enjoying an economic boom — but it has one of Latin America’s lowest-ranking educational systems, which no doubt hampers its economic capabilities in a global setting.

After spending $225 million to provide 850,000 laptops across the country, it was hoped that test scores in basic education, such as math and literacy, would improve.

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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/one-laptop-per-child-disappointing-results/15920

10 Ways to Deal with Difficult Students

We all have those students who are habitually in trouble or are making trouble. This post is for all the teachers who struggle to reach those kids who snarl when you look at them, recoil when you are near them, and refuse to do what they are asked.

Here are ten suggestions on how to deal with these difficult students:

Stay in contact with parents

Make sure they know what is going on; how often he is in trouble, and what trouble it was. Create this bond and you won’t regret it.

Use proximity to limit negative actions

When at all possible, place the student nearest you (hard when you are immersed in PBL) or stay within close proximity to him.

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http://www.teachhub.com/10-ways-deal-difficult-students

CONFERENCE- 9th International Conference on Hands-on Science (HSCI 2012)

Dear Science Education Community,

 

I am writing this e-mail on behalf of HSCI 2012 Local Organizing Committee. 9th International Conference on Hands-on Science (HSCI 2012) including 1st Children Summit on Science and Environmental Education (HSCI-EE) will be held on 17th - 26th October 2012 in Antalya, Turkey.

 

For further information on the conference please visit www.hsci2012.org

The Call for presentation is Open. Please go to the conference web site and then create your own account for abstract submission

 

Deadline for abstract submission: July 9th, 2012

 

 Please also make your reservation in the hotel where the conference will be held (http://www.avantgardevoguehotel.com/home.php?p=1&l=en)

CONFERENCE-Applied Education Congress

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to take part in Applied Education Congress (APED) which will be held at international level between 13^th and 15^th of September, 2012 at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara / Turkey. The main goal of APED is to encourage interaction among researchers, practitioners and educators in various disciplines of education. We aim to create an interactive, dynamic and ongoing forum to share both theoretical and practical perspectives in the field of Applied Education. APED will provide the attendees an excellent opportunity to keep up with the latest developments in education and collectively create a foundation for future studies in this field.

Main Topics that are covered in APED are:

• Teacher Education
• Curriculum Studies
• Learning and Teaching
• Language, Culture and Education
• Distance Education
• Higher Education
• Non-formal Education
• Educational Policy, Leadership and Planning
• Measurement and Evaluation
• New Trends and Issues in Education
• Guidance and Counseling Psychology
• Telecommunication and Instructional Technologies
• Special Needs Education

(Please, visit Divisions page for topics of each division)

Different presentation formats will be available in Applied Education Congress. Interactive and interdisciplinary approaches in all presentations are encouraged.

Specific presentation formats are:

• Oral Presentation: Paper submission
• Poster Presentation: Paper submission
• Round Table Presentation: Paper submission
• Workshop: Submission of works addressing educational issues or practices
• Panel: Attendees will address a specific educational problem or issue from a variety of perspectives. Topics for panel will be determined by the congress committee.
• Exhibition: Exhibition hall will include representations from learning centers, publishers and companies working in the field of education.

We are looking forward to your contributions and participation in Applied Education Congress.

Best Regards,

Web Page: http://www.appeducation.org/

CONFERENCE-IHPST Conference

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to the 2012 IHPST Conference in Asia at Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, South Korea, October 18-20, 2012. This is the first time that Asia has hosted a regional IHPST conference.

The theme of the Conference is Exploring Science: Contributions from History, Philosophy and Education of Science. Invited speakers for the conference include Dr. Hasok Chang (Cambridge University), Dr. Igal Galili (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Dr. Alice Wong (University of Hong Kong), Dr. Norman Lederman (Illinois Institute of Technology), and Dr. Yung Sik Kim (Seoul National University). It is hoped that two academic traditions, the history and philosophy of science and science education, will be meaningfully integrated in the conference through an active exchange of ideas, research results and expertise shared both disciplines.

Abstracts and proposal submissions are due April 30, 2012 and registration begins May 1 - June 30, 2012.

Deadline for final on-line registration is September 20, 2012.

Please view the attached flyer for additional information and visit the website to submit proposals and register for the conference http://ihpst2012.snu.ac.kr<http://ihpst2012.snu.ac.kr/>

We look forward to meeting you all in Seoul in October 2012!!

If you have any questions, please contact Jisun Park (email: ihpst2012@gmail.com<mailto:ihpst2012@gmail.com>)