Marco Koene

Many people leave school just thinking that it means that people have the vote Sadly many of them do not even bother to vote anymore, thinking it has no effect what so ever. At least that is what soem of my students tell me. Anyone with similar expierence?

I must support Ulrike on this one. Austen your personal attacks are uncalled for! And yes my spelling might be wrong, so be it.!

But what is the answer?

This is applicable to every website/ country? Seems to me much and complicated work to figure it all out!

On attempt you can find elsewhere on this forum. In the textbook section.

The book i mentioned was : Geschiedenis van Europa. (History of europe) Hachette Classiques 1992 isbn9030619953 Editor: Frederic Delouche . it is a collaboration between 12 historians from all over europe to come to one european history.

Yes i have the dutch edition at home.

Some attempts to come to one European history textbook have been made. They did not succeed, it was just to big!

Today i had a discussion with my students on a similar topic. They wanted to know if legal steps can be taken against 'offensive' or 'false' content on websites. To be honest i do not know. i know that countries are trying to develop legislation for the internet, but to the best my knowledge not much has happened.

In another thread Graham wrote that he was kicked of lists because of 'offensive' language. This raises a question. Do so-called webfilters serve a purpose? Eg. If you ban the word sex many sites with contents for biologylessons are not availble. On the other hand you can ban a little bit of the offensive contents of the internet. So what is more important; protecting people from offensive contents or free access to information? What is the use of a so-called filter?

That is more a question on developing good filters. Idea for a new thread!

For me i have never accounted abuse etc on the internet. Only once ,when a person claimed to be misquoted, is almost became abuse but cooler heads prevailed and the situation was dealt with in good manner. Mistakes can happen!

Some of the prestaties have to been done in a foreign language. eg a group of tourist are visiting a city. Write a tourguide.

What does a number say? I agree with Derek (never thought that would happen soon ) on that one. At my school we are adopting a system without grades as such. Instead we use learnlines. A student develop oneself along this line. <see debates in education-> natural learning for more details> This targets get very easy, a child develops at his/her own 'natural'' pace!

Yes but my most valuable lessons I learned when I was a teacher-trainee. Not in the lecture room but in front of the classroom. So it can be very dangerous, but also very valuable.

So far 15 votes and and 'landslide' victory for blended learning. That is great news, now the question is how you organise blended learing effectivel.

I think my school has two students, but I am not sure yet. When do you want to have a definite anwer?

What do you think of the ideas on natural learning? <see debates in education>

Thank you!

For our international projects we sometimes use forums. i must say we have very positive resutls.

Do you think an e-learning environment really benefits your teaching?

In another thread we discuss the MS tax etc. etc. What i would like to know is which system people prefer to work with, and why, pc or Mac?

No, at least not in my view. However we need to prepare them to be active citizens. And society 'demands' screen gazing zombies.

Exactly! Many times pc's were set up in schools with the message: There is a computer, use it! Luckily this hasn't happened in my school.

Is this the proper area for this posting? Could you please elaborate some more? Why is this different from any other project?