Activity Ideas for Teachers and Students
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PBS Newshour - Lesson Plans
This TV channel provides a few extra resources for teachers who are always on the run and have very little free time to spare. Recent news topics along with pictures ...
Posted Jan 25, 2012 8:54 AM by Graham William Hendrey
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Radio Essentials for Knowledge
Talk and Educational radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of ...
Posted Jan 25, 2012 10:37 AM by Graham William Hendrey
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Alternative Education Resource Orgaisation
Every now and then an organisation surpasses itself in its contribution to support educators. This is a classic example. To use their words. Let's not reform education. Let's ...
Posted Jan 19, 2012 3:50 AM by Graham William Hendrey
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Movies for The Whole Family
The 50 films you should see by the age of 14 is a list created by the British Film Institute in 2005 in order to inspire parents and educators to ...
Posted Jan 10, 2012 2:01 PM by Graham William Hendrey
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A Patent for The Future
A US patent for self-driving cars has been awarded to Google. The intellectual property rights relate to a method to switch a vehicle from a human-controlled mode into ...
Posted Dec 16, 2011 4:15 AM by Graham William Hendrey
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Jane Elliot - The Social Experiment
She created the famous “blue-eyed/brown-eyed” exercise, first done with grade school children in the 1960s, and which later became the basis for her career in diversity training ...
Posted Dec 15, 2011 6:03 AM by Graham William Hendrey
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Bring The World into your Classroom
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record. A 'documentary ...
Posted Dec 8, 2011 9:30 AM by Graham William Hendrey
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Education News & Relevant Topics
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Robert Burns - Scotland's Favourite Son
I meant to post this yesterday, on his birthday, but the best laid schemes of mice and men 'Gang aft agley'. Mr Burns (also known as Rabbie Burns, the Ploughman ...
Posted Jan 26, 2012 5:08 AM by Graham William Hendrey
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Alan Watts - As The East Came West
He was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United ...
Posted Jan 23, 2012 9:55 AM by Graham William Hendrey
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The 13 Principles of Elite Schools
'We want one class of persons to have a
liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much
larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego ...
Posted Jan 21, 2012 5:01 AM by Graham William Hendrey
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Shocking Facts About American High Schools
Parents of teens understand being kept in the dark as their teens begin to strive for more independence from their parents. While this may be a natural part of growing ...
Posted Jan 18, 2012 3:22 AM by Graham William Hendrey
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Schools are Prisons for The Body & Mind
Someone recently referred me to a book that they thought I'd like. It's a 2009 book, aimed toward teachers of grades K through 12, titled Why Don't ...
Posted Jan 17, 2012 2:10 AM by Graham William Hendrey
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Education News & Resources
This is an unashamed plug for our sister site. If you have or want an opinion about education or you would like to catch the latest market leader's comments ...
Posted Jan 16, 2012 6:15 AM by Graham William Hendrey
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Falling into Another World
Augmented reality (AR) is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics ...
Posted Jan 13, 2012 12:32 PM by Graham William Hendrey
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