Professor Jay Rosen, the New York writer, media critic and journalism teacher, visited the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney yesterday to address Australian media educators about teaching journalism "in a time of disruptive technology".

When I was a public school teacher, sometimes I got a bit of flack over the idea that kids could teach kids. After all, reasoned certain parents, wasn't the *teacher* supposed to be teaching?As a home educator, I get to be my own principal. And in my room, kids teach kids. Without me even asking.

A government campaign will try to teach children from the fourth to the sixth grades how to think critically about ads.

Spent 5.5 hours on site in Wales today and 7 hours by car, train and plane to get from there to Skavsta airport. I've got another couple of hours by bus and train before I'm home. The trains I rode in the UK were on time but often did not leave from the platforms indicated by the online trip planner.

One of the tastiest things I can think of is Jell-O—and just in time to celebrate the Second Annual Jell-O Mold Competition, comes a bit of research from the ACS journal, Analytical Chemistry.

A Times analysis, using data largely ignored by LAUSD, looks at which educators help students learn, and which hold them back.

The fifth-graders at Broadous Elementary School come from the same world — the poorest corner of the San Fernando Valley, a Pacoima neighborhood framed by two freeway

University of Texas introduces training programme for carbon capture and storage.

I wrote about the Tinkering School, Engineering camp previously. I am a strong believer in the value of helping kids (even adult kids – the few that haven’t resigned themselves to limited capacity to wonder since they now are grown up and not suppose to waste their time dreaming) explore their ideas and assisting them in making those ideas into reality. I think this is the best way to learn, not learning to pass a test, but learning to gain knowledge and accomplish things.

ST. LOUIS - Fontbonne University honored Kerry Borawski, a full-time business administration instructor, and Margaret Fetter, a part-time fine arts lecturer, with the university's 2009 Excellence in Teaching Awards. Borawski received the Joan Goostree Stevens Excellence in Teaching Award, and Fetter received the Excellence in Teaching Award for Part-Time Faculty.

It will come as a surprise to schoolchildren everywhere: Learning the intricacies of algebra, calculus and geometry can be fun. So say a team of European researchers who believes they have cracked the code to making mathematics education engaging and entertaining.

SAINT LOUIS – Fontbonne University recently honored three faculty members for excellence in teaching.

Can integrated approaches to literacy instruction alleviate the disadvantages and poor performance of students in urban schools, and are there differential effects on students not native to the language of … [Read more]

SAINT LOUIS – Fontbonne University recently honored three faculty
members for excellence in teaching.

How schools are trying to inculcate intelligent giving in their pupilsCHILDREN can be tender souls. Pitch them a sob story and they often swallow it whole. Reflect the harsh reality outside the school gates, however, and they develop sophisticated strategies for making hard choices. That, at least, is the early experience of an initiative to teach philanthropy to young teenagers.

This fall I'm going to be teaching honors introductory mechanics to incoming undergraduates - basically the class that would-be physics majors take.  Typically when we first teach students mechanics, we start from the point of view of forces and Newton's laws, which certainly parallels the historical development of the subject and allows students to build some physical intuition.  Then, in a later class, we point out that the force-based approach to deriving the equations of motion is not really the modern way physicists think about things.  In the more advanced course, students are introduced

by Tim Ellis, Suite 101

Law School Professor James E. Ryan has been chosen to receive an All-University Teaching Award from the University of Virginia.

It will come as a surprise to schoolchildren everywhere: Learning the intricacies of algebra, calculus and geometry can be fun. So say a team of European researchers who believes they have cracked the code to making mathematics education engaging and entertaining.

Two University of Plymouth professors have been awarded National Teaching Fellowships by the Higher Education Academy.

New research suggests why kids under 3 don’t learn from video

Robots that interact with people should stop always putting efficiency first and learn that with humans a little courtesy goes a long way

Many children are unaware of how the Internet can turn typical adolescent behavior into something not only public, but also permanent.

Scientists working to save the endangered (and voracious) quoll came up with a clever solution: They trained it to hate the taste of toad so it can avoid getting poisoned.

Ever since its arrival in Australia, the poisonous cane toad has been killing native predators such as the northern quoll, a cat-sized marsupial.

(American Sociological Association) The American Sociological Association today launched a first-of-its-kind educational tool to promote high-quality teaching and to improve the way college and university professors provide evidence to support their promotion and tenure.

The owner of two hospitals limited outside pay for officials who are on biotechnology or drug companies’ boards.

(American Sociological Association) The American Sociological Association today launched a first-of-its-kind educational tool to promote high-quality teaching and to improve the way college and university professors provide evidence to support their promotion and tenure.

A new training program seeks to recruit math and science specialists for teaching jobs in urban schools