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Life lessons from a 100-mile run through an Indian desert
January 4, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
While budgets for education are being cut across the US and Canada, this innovative program called impossible2Possible (i2P) offers learning tools free of charge to any school that signs up, exemplifying where education is headed in the 21st century.
Unlike many of the virtual classrooms that have popped up across the US in the past five years, i2P does not rely on government funding and is touted for being interactive. The organization gets most of its money from corporate sponsors such as Gatorade and relies on donations from Apple and BGAN Satellite for its technology. Called “21st century learning” and “truly groundbreaking” by Apple’s Distinguished Educators, a program that recognizes K-12 and higher education pioneers who use Apple products to transform teaching and learning, i2P is already being recognized for its unique approach.
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Cackleberries English Language (ESL) Program Helps Prepare Young Learners to Compete in Global Economy Through Innovative Virtual Classroom
January 3, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
The Combination of an online language program and the magic and excitement of Cackleberries characters and animation provides for the first of its kind in virtual education for young children learning English. This virtual classroom is build intuitively for young learners to be able to click, learn and play on their own. The animated lessons are used in combination with exercises to reinforce the learning.
“There are few entertaining educational tools for very young learners on the market,” says Eronne Foster CEO of Cackleberrries Entertainment. “Young children are natural language learners. They pick up a new language easily without conscious learning, unlike adolescents and adults. A virtual world where they can watch entertaining child appropriate animations, play and explore is the perfect tool for learning another language.”
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RCMP banks on e-learning to instill better habits among officers
January 1, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
While no one says Internet tutoring will be the Mounties’ salvation, it is seen as one way of ingraining more police professionalism. A pilot e-learning program ran for the past year, started by former commissioner William Elliott, a career Ottawa bureaucrat.
The new, expanded program would entrench the Internet leadership courses and sharpen their focus on breaking with the past. “Developing an Agenda for Change” and “Mobilizing for Change” are the names some of the other prospective courses.
The hope is that rising officers will learn these leadership skills at their computers, while posted in detachments across the country.
One obvious advantage of Internet learning is that it eliminates the need for expensive travel and sabbaticals. But the courses are not intended to replace other police training or even be all that in-depth.
“Web-based courses are just one piece of a much larger approach to sustainable leadership development,” said Sergeant Julie Gagnon, a Mountie spokeswoman. The consulting contract envisions Mounties taking up to eight distance-learning courses in a year-long curriculum, each being “no more than 15 hours of applied time.”
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