If you are a teacher, trainer, an ELT decision maker or studying for an MA or PhD we can help to keep you informed about the latest ELT and educational technology news and research with a new collection of links every week.
Next update: 25 February 2012
The Classroom Evolved: Creating an Active Learning Environment
Intent on designing classrooms that would support their school's new active learning initiative, the IT and administrative teams at Bishop Moore Catholic High School in Orlando, FL, tapped into two institutions of higher education for help.
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Scaling Education with the Web
This year's graduating class will be the first not to know a world without the Web. According to Google Chromebooks Group Product Manager Rajen Sheth, this has serious implications for how we educate.
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UK school tech show moves to Abu Dhabi
The BETT Show, that annual four-day pilgrimage to educational technology in London's Olympia, has exported itself to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to become BETT Middle East.
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School ICT to be replaced by computer science programme
The current information and communications technology (ICT) curriculum in England's schools is a "mess" and must be radically revamped, the education secretary has announced.
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Teachers warned over befriending pupils on Facebook
More than one in 10 school teachers accused of misconduct last year had used social networking sites and email to forge inappropriate relationships with their pupils, an analysis of disciplinary cases has found.
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Flight of the Commodore: How the iconic computer led to a golden age of geeks
Back in 1982, home computers didn't come with soothing start-up chimes, welcoming splash screens and airbrushed icons. Operating an 8-bit machine was a voyage of discovery, characterised by repeated stabs in the dark and precious little hand-holding.
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Matrix-style instant learning is a real possibility, according to scientific report
Often the stuff of science-fiction fantasy, instant learning via digital communication with a subject’s brain (a la The Matrix) is not only possible, but scientists have already had some success with test subjects.
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Learning a language is much more fun in the kitchen
Paul Seedhouse, professor of education and applied linguistics at Newcastle University, is the brains behind the French Digital Kitchen, a learning site that teaches its users aspects of the French language while they prepare dishes from the country.
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Goodbye Textbooks, Hello iPad
A technology shift is under way. The PC’s promise to transform how learning happens in the classroom is being realized by Apple’s iPad. Students and teachers in grade school through higher education are using the iPad to augment their lessons or to replace textbooks.
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Questions About Digital Learning
Last year (2010) marked a world-changing inflection point in the sale of mobile devices and applications. For education, affordable access devices is the biggest new driver. It's now cheaper to give every student a tablet or eReader loaded with content (particularly if some of it is open) than to give them a backpack full of books.
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Broadband, Social Networks, and Mobility Have Spawned a New Kind of Learner
Students are different today because of technology. Every educator knows this, of course, but this change is about much more than agile thumbs, shriveling attention spans, and OMG'd vocabularies. According the Pew Research Center, the combination of widespread access to broadband Internet connectivity, the popularity of social networking, and the near ubiquity of mobile computing is producing a fundamentally new kind of learner.
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The Great Education Reads of 2011
Whether you "occupy" home, airports or train terminals this holiday season, it's a good time to reflect and catch up on some of 2011's greatest education reads.
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Global Gateway
Creating international partnerships between schools in the UK and other countries for educational projects.
LearnEnglish Parents
This site provides tips for parents and teachers on how to use different materials for teaching English to kids
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Professional Development
This website delivers a number of professional development programmes to suit your needs
Support for schools
This website can help you find a partner school, help develop school partnerships and provide access to a database of internet based curriculum projects
IATEFL
IATEFL is the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.
