The open source movement has made many different educational programs freely available to schools, teachers, and students. Many of these software programs are designed to work across multiple platforms and include directions for use and installation. Here are 10 educational software products that can be downloaded or used online for free. ATutor – Similar to [...]
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Richard Feynman on Teaching
Posted by Kevin on August 12th, 2009
Excerpts from “‘Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!’ Adventures of a Curious Character” by Richard Feynman, Bantam Books: New York, 1986 I don’t believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don’t have any ideas and I’m not getting anywhere I can say to myself, [...]
Teaching for Uncertain Futures
Posted by Kevin on November 30th, 2008
Something that I am well aware of is the need to consider that the world that the students in my classroom will be living in is very different to what existed 50 years ago. So, I was quite excited to see that Teaching Australia (who are funded by Commonwealth Government) had identified this as an [...]