Education standards are at risk as pupils are increasingly allowed to submit essays digitally using email, memory sticks or even presenting PowerPoint displays, it was claimed.
Prof Carey Jewitt, from London University’s Institute of Education, said students’ handwriting skills were “absolutely appalling”, adding that many failed to get the practice they needed at home or in the classroom.
Other academics warned that a failure to teach children to write may stunt their development and hold them back in the classroom.
It comes after the publication of primary school exam results this summer showed that pupils perform worse in writing than any other core subject.
A quarter of 11-year-olds failed to reach the standards expected for their age in writing, compared with less than 20 per cent in reading and maths, figures showed.
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COLUMBIA – Some parents in Richland School District Two concerned about the use of iPads in the classrooms. WACH-Fox got a few calls and emails from parents worried their kids were using the iPads for more than just educational instruction.
When Mae Pennington’s son Tristan came home from school with nothing but an iPad she worried the device was a distraction from her child’s education.
However the iPads are here to stay, replacing traditional textbooks at Muller Road Middle School.
At 500 dollars a pop they may seem expensive; but Principal Lori Marrero says they are a worthy investment considering the price of textbooks and paper are rising.
“There are so many applications out there that have educational benefits, and we knew we did not want to do textbooks, said Marrero. “We knew that textbooks for the most part are obsolete.”
Tristan and his classmates can download class assignments and reading materials, even do science projects on the iPad.
“In our classrooms, students are sitting at tables, so that teachers are walking around, in fact when we were in one classroom a teacher said that’s not my application, get back to my app,” adds Marrero.
Once a skeptic, Pennington is excited about iPad’s ability to enhance her child’s education.
“You can sit there and tell someone all you want that this is a good program,” said Pennington. “But to actually see the children in the classroom, they are learning very, very well.”
Principal Marrero says eventually all Richland Two Students in grades 4 through 12 will be using some kind of one-to-one wireless device in the classroom
JK Rowling returned to the city where she wrote the first of the Harry Potter books yesterday to be rewarded for her philanthropy.
The author was at Edinburgh University to be honoured by the Princess Royal, who performed her first duty as the new chancellor. Princess Anne presented the writer with the University Benefactor’s award in recognition of a 10m donation made last year.
The money was to establish the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, named after the author’s mother, who died of multiple sclerosis at the age of 45. It will help find treatments for MS and other progressive, incurable diseases. Professor Sir John Savill, head of the college of medicine, said the money has given hope to thousands of people.
The Philadelphia Writing Project (PhilWP) is celebrating its 25th anniversary of teachers teaching teachers.
The mantra of “teachers as the best teachers of teachers” represents the power of PhilWP, a local site of the National Writing Project.
For its silver anniversary, PhilWP is commemorating its impact on literacy and writing as a critical tool for learning in all Philadelphia schools. Through the PhilWP network, education reform is not about top-down mandates or rigid accountability measures but represents teachers working together in professional and collegial communities.
The PhilWP teacher network consists of over 700 teacher-consultants and impacts thousands of classrooms and schools across all grades and disciplines. Prog
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