Thursday, September 16, 2010

Top Universities in the World? US and UK

The US accounts for 72 of the world's 200 best universities, and 7 of the top 10, according to an international league table published by the Times Higher Education magazine. See the BBC article here

UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

  • 1 - Harvard University
  • 2 - California Institute of Technology
  • 3 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 4 - Stanford University
  • 5 - Princeton University
  • 6 - University of Cambridge
  • 6 - University of Oxford
  • 8 - University of California, Berkeley
  • 9 - Imperial College London
  • 10 - Yale University

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education

Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Digital Tools for Learning



--by Jane Hart from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies. Accessed at http://blog.curriki.org/category/ed-tech/

Teachers, how many of these tools do you use in or out of the classroom?

Can you locate MS PowerPoint in the list? (Hint: it's not in the top 10.)