ELT & TECHNOLOGY NEWS

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: 05 December 2008

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Open Access - opportunities and challenge: a handbook
The current digital age has opened up unprecedented opportunities for the dissemination of knowledge. One much debated way of sharing information, and in particular peer-reviewed academic publications, is open access. “Open Access” refers to free access to scientific and, increasingly, other academic publications over the internet.
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Digital Youth Research Report Released
"Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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With Students Flocking Online, Will Faculty Follow?
The current model of higher education was several centuries in the making. That leaves colleges adapting to online learning, a viable option for only about a decade, with a monumental game of catch-up.
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Cyberbullying
While many children and young people enjoy positive and creative experiences when using the internet or a mobile phone, a minority is using these technologies negatively. Cyberbullying – as defined by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) - is the use of ICT, particularly the internet and mobile phones, deliberately to upset someone else. It is considered an extension of offline bullying and invades previously safe environments.
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Impact of e-portfolios on learning
Case studies of eight e-portfolio projects were created from document analysis and interviews and surveys of learners and teachers. Findings relating to the impact of e-portfolio systems on learning outcomes and processes and commencing and sustaining e-portfolio development were drawn from cross case analysis.
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Film and TV industry launches copyright education site
The trust’s research shows that there is huge confusion surrounding IPR. It found that two-thirds of consumers don’t understand the concept of intellectual property (66 per cent). One in eight is confused about copyright theft (12 per cent) and one in 10 internet users doesn't recognise the difference between illegal and legal download sources.
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Introductory Brief to ELP Standards & Assessment Framework
The Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center is pleased to announce the availability of a new introductory brief to the "Framework for High-Quality English Language Proficiency Standards and Assessments." The introduction presents the intended purpose, uses, and organization of the Framework, as well as key background information and assumptions.
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Perspectives on early years and digital technologies
This publication is a first for us as it brings together early work from Futurelab’s PhD studentship network. This network was set up to bring together PhD students and their supervisors from Bristol, Nottingham and Stirling universities to explore how these different groups might, collaboratively, explore challenging questions around the role of digital technologies in young children’s learning.
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Dr Leila Walker on handheld learning
A presentation on handheld learning, given by Futurelab's Leila Walker at the Handheld Technology and Social Media Conference in Sheffield. The presentation describes how teachers might use current and emerging technologies to address key educational agendas, such as BSF, Every Child Matters and personalisation.
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Free Online Curriculum Helps Teachers Take Storytelling Into The Digital Age
Target Stores, Scholastic, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have partnered with Sube Learning language thru Art, Music and Games, a New Mexico-based innovator in language education, to offer a free online curriculum designed to bring Digital Storytelling training to the widest possible population. This powerful new medium allows ordinary people, with little computer experience and with readily available electronic tools, to create three- to four-minute video clips that can be played on a computer, shared as an email or played on a television.
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CAELA Digests and Q&As
CAELA's publications provide information about literacy education for adults learning English as a second language (ESL). Digests and Q&As address such topics as assessment and evaluation, professional development, improving language skills, ESL methods and approaches, program design, and workplace and vocational ESL. You can find the 72 digests and Q & As listed alphabetically
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Lighting the touch paper to learning – where to put the match
It’s one thing to analyse and identify the failings and challenges that education faces, but it’s another to engage in the solution. Unusually for a journalist, Charles Leadbeater appears unafraid. So if the theorists behind Every Child Matters and personalisation of learning wanted to set their reforms ablaze, and were handed a box of matches, where would they start?
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