Sekolah Bogor Raya

A recent question by a parent provides food for thought. Her question was about teaching life skills to our over-protected kids. Have students just become too comfortable with our friendly teachers, who are treated as big brother / sister? I for one think this parent was right; we need to challenge our students in more [...]

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I don’t normally dabble in politics. In fact, since I’ve been overseas for two and a half decades I haven’t even voted for ages. I thought I’d had my fill of US election news, until I watched this video.
The Onion: Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results of 08 Election

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At our senior class meeting on Friday afternoon I heard for the first time about a problem in our grade 8 classroom. Kids were using their laptop computers indiscriminately, chatting during class time, and generally having many off-topic windows open. ‘Multi-tasking’ they called it. I immediately made a note to visit the class come Monday [...]

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The old saying ‘seeing is believing’ just doesn’t hold these days. Between digitally-doctored photos and our eyes and brains being tricked by optical illusions, it is clear that seeing isn’t believing. Why is this important? Because occasionally we need to remind students that sometimes they cannot believe their own eyes.

Frank Baker has devoted a fascinating [...]

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Viral professional development (VPD) was introduced by blogger Jennifer Jones in her blog Injenuity. VPD refers to a technology, tool or teaching strategy that is quickly spread from one person to another. It depends on a culture of sharing, where teachers learn from each other and spread the knowledge throughout the school. At Sekolah Bogor [...]

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ANPS Bali Leadership Forum
13 – 15 November 2008

Daring to be Different – Leadership in the Extreme Future
I’ve just come from a meeting of the program committee for this event, which will be chaired by Ardina Utomo of Madania. The theme is the future of education. Regular visitors to this blog should be well aware of [...]

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