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Links for 2008-02-27 [del.icio.us] Posted: 28 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST Fearful schools banning staff from touching children | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk "Researchers found current practice regarding touching to be confused, contradictory, based on staff rather than child protection, contrary to known best practice regarding child development, increasingly contested and not required by legislation"

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Links for 2008-02-25 [del.icio.us] Posted: 26 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST "Intellectual property" is a silly euphemism * News * Technology * Intellectual property Series: Digital rights, digital wrongs Who Is This Person? :: Firefox Add-ons Could be so useful for helping to critically evaluate web sources during web research Smaller class sizes 'less effective' Interesting article which touches on the way in which research is disseminated to and by teachers

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Links for 2008-02-22 [del.icio.us] Posted: 23 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST Wealthy 'thrive at poor schools' So... family background is more important than selection of school... who knew...

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Links for 2008-02-20 [del.icio.us] Posted: 21 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST Context beats exam tables in search for best schools University dropout steady at 22% Interesting to note because of the attempt to manipulate figures to superficially improve outcomes rather than addressing the real support issue Why do so many students drop out, MPs ask | Students | EducationGuardian.co.uk Student retention and the issues surrounding that and widening participation There is good reason to be worried about declining rates of reading | Comment is free | The Guardian Interesting response to an earlier article about the Dawn of the Digital Natives (also in The Guardian)

Links for 2008-02-18 [del.icio.us] Posted: 19 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST Can we teach people to be happy? Interesting seed for a debate on the future of education A third of teachers 'struggle with technology' | E-learning | EducationGuardian.co.uk

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Links for 2008-02-17 [del.icio.us] Posted: 18 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST JISC : supporting education and research Mind42.com - Collaborative mind mapping in your browser Free online mindmapping which could be extremely useful and compete with the MindMeister version