Recently I’ve been struggling with what I see as the core problem of education present: how do we as school leaders get teachers to transform their practice to teach in a way that is more appropriate for the technology that is available to them? This was stemmed by stories of schools getting 1:1 iPads and [...]
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The death of traditional spelling? Woohoo!
January 3, 2010 · 5 Comments · Teaching
Professor Crystal, a pioneer of language theory, has reasoned that the internet may cause the death of traditional spelling rules (http://bit.ly/5AyCC3 from an ariticle in the English ‘Telegraph’, reproduced in Melbourne’s ‘The Age’). His logic is that instant publishing on the web has led to the majority of ‘published’ material being content that is no [...]
