Online classrooms where students run the show: we tested how this unconventional model can work: Bringing together different ideas and experiences enhances the virtual classroom experience. Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images The Zoom meeting window opens, immediately revealing scores of smiling or anxious faces. Some people have quirky backgrounds; some are in the same room as friends …
From divorcees to fuller classrooms, the 1921 census of England and Wales depicts an era of great change: Compared to previous censuses, the 1921 data shows more children in education. Wellcome Collection, CC BY-SA Nobody is more excited for the release of a census than a genealogist. I have been researching family trees for 20 …
Anticapitalism wasn’t banned in English classrooms during the cold war – why is it now?: Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com Materials produced by groups with “extreme political stances” have been barred from English classrooms by the UK government under new guidance for the relationships, sex, and health curriculum. Most of these extreme principles – racism, antisemitism and …
South Africa in the news: Avaya Enables Students To Continue To Learn Across Africa as 250 Million Children Lose Access to Physical Classrooms: With Avaya Spaces, African schools such as Icon International School in Ghana, Charter College in South Africa, and Waldorf Woodlands in Kenya, have kept students safely engaged in their education …: “South …
6 open source teaching tools for virtual classrooms: As schools and universities are shutting down around the globe due to COVID-19, many of us in academia are wondering how we can get up to speed and establish a stable workflow to get our podcasts, online lectures, and tutorials out there for our students. Open source …
Questions academics can ask to decolonise their classrooms: Asking questions can create new ways of teaching and learning. StepanPopov/Shutterstock The curriculum is not just the “stuff” that students must learn to be knowledgeable and skilled in a particular discipline. It’s about more than just content. Sociologists of education argue that “curriculum” is a highly ideological …
Five reasons to end the conspicuous silence of music in classrooms: Kendrick Lamar performing in Portugal. Jose Sena Goulao/EPA One of the main challenges that we educators face is getting our students to actively interact with course content, and perhaps explore its application to “real life”. One of the solutions to this age-old problem seems …
How training can prepare teachers for diversity in their classrooms: Teachers need support to make sure they deal well with diversity and conflict. Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters Teachers have been shaping lives for centuries. Everyone remembers their favourite (and of course their least favourite) teachers. This important group of people even has its own special day, marked …