Websites to get ratings
Is it possible that websites could end up getting an age rating system that is meant to protect children from accessing websites that are not suitable for their age, according to the Culture Secretary Andy Burnham?
There is no doubt that the internet contains some nasty material, but in most cases, this takes so serious searching [...]
School pregnancies increase after sex education
There has always been a question mark that hangs over the whole area of sex education, one theory is that it you tell them too much about the subject then they are likely to go out and try it, especially as an expert has told them about all of the safety measure that are in [...]
December 23, 2008Second life for kids
Anyone who has been on the virtual world of Second Life would know that there are some place on the site that are not recommended for the younger internet users, including teenagers. Some people may say that to use the site users have to be eighteen, but that has never stopped anyone has it?
Linden Labs [...]
University readying to welcome the Google generation
Universities and colleges are getting ready to receive the new wave of digital students, these are the first students to go on to further education who have grown up in the digital age, you may not think that this would have any effect on their further education, but it does.
The problem lies with the informal [...]
Swear words win at Scrabble
Some parents might feel that buying an edition of the word game Scrabble for their kids Nintendo DS could be a good idea on getting them to learn about spellings etc.
However, it turns out that the Nintendo DS Scrabble 2007 Edition has few surprises inside and it is something that parents may not be expecting.
Considering [...]
Kids told that Santa is not real by teacher
Twenty five pupils at a school in Royton, near Oldham left school in tears after their teacher had told them that Santa does not exist.
It must be only natural that children are going to be excited about Christmas at this time of year as there is no escaping it, teachers should be prepared for that [...]
Teacher takes Linux CD because of piracy
Sometimes it is amazing when you think that teachers hold the future of our children in their hands and yet they can be so blind about what is realistic in the world.
Take one case, where a child using a laptop in class, impressing his friends of his skills. If any of the kids are interested, [...]
Students still flocking to the UK
Despite the credit crunch and the cost of living in the UK, there is still a booming market in students coming to the UK for their university education from countries all around the world.
This is because a UK qualification carries a lot of weight when it is time to start work and of course the [...]
Student gets degree in two years
A teenager is about to graduate from the university of Texas, nothing strange about that, but in this there is.
Andrew Brisbin was just fourteen when he started at the North Central College and went onto the university just a year later, now aged just sixteen he is about to graduate with a bachelor’s degree [...]
Great reasons to go to college
It has to be one of the biggest decisions that a teenager has to make, to go college or not.
There are plenty of reasons or excuses for not going, but what about the reasons for going to college, there are just as many for as there are for not going, these can be:
Apart of growing [...]
The truth about teaching
Teachers are finding that although their training covered what they should be teaching it failed to inform them of the real world and how teaching in this real word is far removed from the world of teaching that they were taught at college.
Here are some of the finer points of teaching in this real world:
Classroom [...]