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Finland again

What everyone should know about education in Finland. See here

How e-learning can help to cut-down school dropout rate - the case of  Vicksburg virtual school.
Case study

One of brothers behind Wolfram math engine talks about teaching math

Why Do Pupils Hate Math? : Velimir Dedic at TEDx Zemun 2013

The Music of Math Games

Math and music
On how math is to be taught.

Isaac Asimov on education

In this video Isaac Asimov questions future of education in 1988.

Very insightful. Some basic ideas of e-learning are here, given in a very clear and sound fashion.

Culturally supported bias against math

We are constantly fed by fear of mathematics. This video makes a funny example of this not so funny fact.

And it will not be enough to find some interesting and everyday life supported proofs that math is important and fundamental, yet we need to find more productive ways of de-fearing the subject.
Alex's adventures in numberland

Tuition payment by parents and academic excellence are not correlated!

Another insightful article, NY Times  Students and tuition payment

Reading habits and digital technology

Do kids read more or less nowadays?NY Times article

Finland has the best education

The latest report by Pearson shows that Finland has the best education  system in the World, followed by South Korea and Hong Kong.

Full report can be found Index of cognitive skills and educational attainment

Video e-learning statistics

Why video learning is back?

Article in EURODL

Article co-authored by Dr Suzana Marković and me on preferences to different GUIs by learning styles of e-learners. Here it is.

A must see: 

Techno toy that will help us create some great content

Converter of Power Point slides to HTML 5 can be great servant, but a lousy master. We have seen so much of so called e-learning that basically combines the worst of both worlds - bad pedagogy wrongly applied to Power point, and lack of any pedagogy in incorrectly led e-learning process. I hope to see less power point in e-learning content, anyway.

Strange case of Robotron Man and a DDR computer

Who woul guess that super action hero, Robotron Man, makes for living like mechanical engineering professor. Old stereotype of a  extreme human duality, perhaps the best described in famous case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R L Stevenson, is exploited in the context of fighting evil by knowledge. I can agree this is possible. Robotron man can be used as a tool to show how knowledge can be cool and how you can be even the Super hero  by knowing things. Yes, do check Adventures of Robotron Man.
But, what always fascinates me very much is any case of seemingly strange coincidence. So, after some cortical googling, I have recalled this: there was an East German company in IT market, active in 1980s. The company name was Robotron.  

Academic "copy-paste"

Different types of academic plagiarism are poisoning the community communication space. Check this blog entry for some interesting attempt to classify plagiarism types.

Use Andertoons!

Great resource for funny yet intelligent cartoons you can use in the classroom.
Andertoons

Google for educators

Good resource for educators, from http://www.educatorstechnology.com/
Google for educators slideshow