Litigation in the nursery?

Kinda Learning Stuff: "Why do people do this? When did they forget they were dealing with children and prioritise hyper-protective practices above meeting their needs? Education, education, education = litigation, litigation, litigation?!"

Blog entry made on my Kinda Learning site which is E891 relevant because it touches on the dissemination of research and also the misappropriation of guidelines in education. Worth remembering

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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...

Trust no-one... well, do... but trust yourself more!

The web is your hard drive -- but it's an unreliable hard drive | Technology | Guardian Unlimited: "Bear this in mind when the next snake-oil salesman does a pitch for 'cloud computing'. Sure, you can let somebody else take responsibility for the safety and security of your data, but only if you don't mind losing it."

Useful reminder about why it's good to use the web 2.0 services that are out there... but relying on them for 100% uptime and for complete reliability of data storage is a mistake. Just as with learning out to manage our digital identity is a skill modification we need to get to grips with, so are issues of data storage, ownership and management. If you want it doing right... don't necessarily do it yourself because there are some fantastic online tools out there. But if you want it doing reliably... make sure you take backups and take responsibility for those backups yourself.

Nothing ever really changes, huh? A slight tweak with the way you do things to take account of differing contexts, and you'll be right.

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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

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Links for 2008-02-16 [del.icio.us] Posted: 17 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST Lesson one: no Orwellian language The impact of Orwellian language on the educational environment. One to get the mental juices flowing!