Dear students
Due to my Erasmus training absence, we have to make up for the classes on the following dates:
May 5 at 8.00, 9.45, 18.30
May 12 at 8.00; 9.45, 18.30
We meet at the reception.
You can come at any above mentioned time on the given day.
Best
Agnieszka Dremza
Sunday, 26 April 2009
Education
Education
"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."Henry Peter Brougham, Scottish Whig politician
A Vision of Students Today...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
What will shape the future of education?
It could be video games. Bioengineering. Or health care.
http://www.kwfdn.org/map/map.aspx
Most educators and observers agree that the future school will go electronic with a capital E!
What shape the school of the future will take is amorphous, but most educators and observers agree that the future school will go electronic with a capital E.
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"Next century, schools as we know them will no longer exist," says a feature in The Age publication, based in
Students, The Age asserts, will see and hear teachers on computers, with "remote learning" the trend of tomorrow. Accessing "classrooms" on their home computers, students will learn at times most convenient for them. Yet some attendance at an actual school will be required to help students develop appropriate social skills.
At
- all teachers and students have laptop computers.
- teachers check voicemail and return students' calls on a special telephone system.
- students use telephones to find information or speak to experts in subject areas they are studying.
- all lessons are multidisciplinary.
- all students have individual learning plans created by teachers.
As Seashore's acting principal says, a laptop computer is the students' "library, homework, data storage, and connection to the wider world. (Technology) has changed the emphasis to the learning of kids rather than the teaching of kids."
A REAL-LIFE SCHOOL
Right here in the
At the school, knowledge is "actively constructed by the learner on a base of prior knowledge, attitudes, and values." Sophisticated technology is in place to support the pursuit of knowledge.
The 250 Academy students all have access to a computer. The 12- to 18-year-olds each have their own computer; 7- to 11-year-olds have one portable computer for every two students; and 5- and 6-year-olds use computers at fixed stations. In addition, the students use multimedia computers, printers, CD-ROMs, laserdiscs, VCRs, video editing machines, camcorders, cable television, online services, and telephones -- simple but effective research tools.
Teachers assess student learning through portfolios and creative performance tasks. Again, the object is to use real-life approaches to assessment.
WORKING TOWARD FUTURE SCHOOLS
The Center for the School of the Future (CSF) is the brainchild of the
- identify the most effective teaching approaches, techniques, and ideologies,
- encourage innovations and their adaptation to specific circumstances,
- assist the creation of a community of parents and teachers who support each other in improving schools.
The CSF is forming a Research and Best Practice Clearinghouse, a
- "equity and excellence,"
- teaching of basic skills combined with creative problem-solving,
- respect for individual values as well as diversity,
- preparation for democracy as well as a world economy.
TECHNOLOGY IS KEY
Whatever the configuration of a school of the future might be, technology is always a huge part of it. Ginger Howenic, a consultant and director for The Classroom of the Future Foundation, recently made a presentation in the Lake Washington (
Howenic formerly headed
Clarke's company offers SONY Web TV packages to school districts for $207 per unit. The packages provide Internet access through regular televisions, assisting students whose families do not own computers.
The school days when computers meant word processing or playing games are already behind us. Yet no matter how great a part computers and other technologies play in the school of the future, it is only a means, advocates of technology say, to the greater end of enabling students to learn through interaction with various aspects of life.
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Article by Sharon Cromwell
Education World®
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Want to be a teacher? ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW5hS4fvERg
Saturday, 25 April 2009
EDUCATION
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education” - Albert Einstein
Many times, great teachers are also what you would call unconventional teachers. They take the end point, look at the usual way to go, and then do something completely different.
Blogging: Five Advantages of Teaching Using a Blog
Blogs which people create for communication and journaling can be used effectively as a teaching tool to reach and react with a target audience. They are changing teaching and allowing different learning practises. Blog can be use as a effective teaching tool in everyday classes. Check it out!
First year primary pupils need good teachers
Bad experiences in reception year can blight a child's education, but schools often concentrate best staff on Sat students
Having a bad teacher in the first year at primary school can blight a child’s entire education, researchers have found. They discovered the effect of having an exceptionally poor — or unusually good — teacher in the reception year was still detectable six years later. The findings suggest many pupils are being betrayed by schools that, in an effort to rise up the national league tables, concentrate their best teachers on pupils about to take their Sats tests at the age of 11. “More effort needs to be spent on the most valuable years, which are the earliest years,” said Peter Tymms, professor of education at Durham University, who led the study, which is published in the journal Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability.
It has long been argued that a pupil’s ability to learn concepts such as language and mathematics is at its greatest when the child is very young. Some primary schools, however, concentrate teaching on the later years when the results can most obviously be seen in exam scores.
Other research has shown that the most difficult years in a child’s education can be the first years at secondary school, exacerbating any disadvantage they have suffered in their primary school.
It has long been argued that a pupil’s ability to learn concepts such as language and mathematics is at its greatest when the child is very young. Some primary schools, however, concentrate teaching on the later years when the results can most obviously be seen in exam scores.
Other research has shown that the most difficult years in a child’s education can be the first years at secondary school, exacerbating any disadvantage they have suffered in their primary school.
ENJOY!!!!!:):):)
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Entertainment
Nowadays we have many ways of entertainment for example go to some places as ciemna, disco or play some sports, eating etc. It depends on our preferences, how we want to spend our free time. We would like to show a few of them, which are interesting according to our research.
First of all, many people like spending their time in theater. But not everybody is able to attend in plays f. ex. deaf people. Millions of them in the USA are unable to fully enjoy films and live theatre performances. In 1997, a New York reporter came up with a way to help. His idea was to provide ‘real time’ sub-titles wich can be read by deaf people while they watch the performance. How is this done? The dialogue of the play is typed into a computer befor the show. During the performance, a Professional 
computer operator sits near the stage. He listens to the actors and displays the dialogue on a screen as the actors say their lines. People In hearing problems sit In specialty reserved seats near the screen, and the letters are big enough to be read easily. The idea has been very successful in New York. Now Peter Paulan, a partially deaf British businessman, has brought the system to Britain. He hopes to persuade theatre companies to rent or buy it. Deaf people should be able to enjoy the theatre like everyone else.
The most popular entertainment among going people is karaoke. Everyone knows that karaoke comes Frome Japan, but it is not the Japanese for ‘drunk and tone-deaf’ as you might think! It actually means ‘empty orchestra’. It all started in a small music bar in the city of Kobe. One night when the usual guitarist didn’t turn up, the desperate bar owner recorded some music and invited his customers to sing instead. The craze soon spread, and special karaoke machines were invented. The idea was that however badly you sang everyone applauded at the end, and it proved the perfect way for stressed Japanese businessman to unwind.
Today, just twenty years after it started in Kobe, you can find karaoke bars all over the Word. It’s so popular in China that restaurants normally have several karaoke machines going at the same time. These days, you can hire karaoke machines that not only play music and videos, but also have smoke machines, laser lights, and even dancers and a DJ to accompany you, while you make-belive for a few minutes that you a star. As one karaoke fan put it, ‘it something everyone should try at least once in their lifes’.
But if you are ashamed of your voice you can try have fun like these two guys.
What is astonishing you can have some piece of entertainment at work. For fun majority of bosses spy their employees during their work
Furthermore they find out that their clerks not only work, but also have much fun!If you don’t believe, watch this film.
Posted by Moni i Yo!anna
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
MOTO W233 Renew: Made From Recycled Water Bottles
Motorola has rolled out what it claims to be the world's first cell phone made from recycled water bottles in Canada. Motorola's MOTO W233 Renew, which claims this "world's first" title, also happens to be the very first Carbonfree certified handsetMOTO W233 Renew delivers the quality you expect from a Motorola device while empowering you to reduce your carbon footprint. Not only is the plastic housing of Renew made from plastics comprised of recycled water bottles and 100 percent recyclable, but it is also the world’s first carbon neutral phone. Through an alliance with Carbonfund.org, Motorola offsets the carbon dioxide required to manufacture, distribute and operate the phone through investments in renewable energy sources and reforestation. The phone has earned Carbonfund.org’s CarbonFree® Product Certification after an extensive product life-cycle assessment.When designing the packaging, Motorola was able to reduce its size by 22 percent and the box and all of the materials inside are printed on 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. In addition, a postage-paid recycling envelope in box makes it easy to return your previous mobile phone for recycling at no cost.Renew was designed for eco-conscious consumers as well as the millions of people who put making phone calls as their number one priority in a mobile phone. With nine hours of talk time, CrystalTalk technology and messaging capabilities, Renew makes environmental responsibility affordable for consumers everywhere. Renew will first be available at T-Mobile USA in Q1 2009.
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Cyber Crime
For many people internet seems to be comfortable and safe way of communication. There is some voices promoting a super open attitude to internet society. This involves revelation of personal data like phone number and address. Although followers of this solution may say that no secrets mean no opportunity to harm, there is a lie at the bottom of the idea. Internet society still gathers a large amount of anonymous folks – also hackers, frauds, and stalkers.
Year after year cyber criminals become more sophisticated in their actions. They are cheating not only better and better anti-virus programs, firewall and other security software but also naïve internet users. That is why Tom Liston, a senior security consultant with Intelguardians (a Washington-based Internet security consulting group) claimed in 2007: "The attackers are now following the same path that businesses have, in trying to advertise themselves in their own special way on the more popular Web sites. They're doing exactly what every business tries to do, which is to find innovative ways get themselves out in front of as many eyeballs as possible." [1]
Some of them can use a malicious video or audio content to persuade viewers into opening “backdoors” into their own systems and by that holes to control machines. Mainly the trick is to ensnare by lurking on familiar Web sites and using stolen data to craft scam e-mails that are more believable, and thus more likely to entice an unsuspecting user. Look at the video to find out more about this method:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlECNpOmJEo
There is also a practice of “lifetime e-mails occasions” for example West African Scam, called also as Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud or 419 Fraud. This scam is delivered mostly to wealthy, middle class, middle age businessmen. Even if it seems to be apparently bogus still the scam can be seen growing effectiveness and reach. This happens because large amount of people believe they have been singled out from masses to share countless profits, without any effort.
Scammers win viewers confidence by using or creating an important government “officials”, their relatives, religious figures and Nigerian National Petroleum Corp employees or workers from other West African countries . They often make grammatical and spelling mistakes to reassure victims by creating a sensation of intellectual superiority, sympathy. E-mails are written in capital letters, have foreign exotic stamps, are addressed to “COE” or “president” rather than a specific name and grips a sense of urgency.
The cheater often describes lucrative, illegal deal, which do not contain a risk to potential dupe. The victim is asked to distant participate in getting the money out of Nigeria or other West African country by using him/her as a conduit who will benefit at this cooperation. Sometimes the business makes waves of legal action. This may be Will Scam, the Real Estate Scam and Scholarship Scam.
No doubts that this is only a beginning of escalation of requests such as transfer tax, a variety of processing, licensing or registration fees and others. Victim's individual monetary losses can range from the low thousands into multi-millions. There are also cases of murder, suicide and some psychological traumatic reactions connected with financial losses or bankrupts.
If you are interested in the subject please visit:
http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Crimes/Business/nigerian.htm
where you can find examples of 419 scams and a lot of other information.
There is one more danger to describe – cyber stalking, a new way of harassment. Following the site of The National Center for Victims of Crime it is “a threatening behavior or unwanted advances directed at another using the Internet and other forms of online and computer communications”. This new phenomenon may derives from easiness of finding out personal information in the net and feelings of impunity. Experts claims that the problem of cyber harassment would grow in the nearest future. Media are widely interesting in the subject:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMAPeYwcvaQ&feature=related
How cyber stalking may look like? Please see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLkkmCRhfnc&feature=related
Cyber stalkers may use such behaviors as the transmission of threats and false accusations (for example via e-mails ) , identity theft, data theft, damage to data or equipment, computer monitoring, the solicitation of minors for sexual purposes and confrontation. It can be terrifying life experience for victims and leads to psychological trauma. These people often feel helpless, but there is a lot of thing that should be done in cyber stalking cases.
There is many tips placed in internet. For further information please visit The National Center for Victims of Crime-Cyber Stalking or Cyber911 Emergency.
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