Lessons from many classrooms

ICT and learning: Lessons from Australian classrooms

Research into Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in schools is well into its third decade but there is still a pressing need to better understand how computer-based technologies are inXuencing learning opportunities, and how the local conditions of schooling impact on teachers’ attempts to integrate these technologies in their classrooms. In this article, we provide some insight i...

A Satellite View of Language: Some Lessons from Science Classrooms

The paper proposes that Language Awareness cannot be fully developed if it rests on a view of language from within. The proposal made here is that language is always one of a number of semiotic (communication/representational) modes in use in any act of communication, and that language may not be the central mode. The relations which language contracts have effect language ‘itself’. The fact th...

Five Years of Flipped Classrooms: lessons learned

Rapid collaborative knowledge building: lessons learned from two primary science classrooms

Cognizant that a critical 21 century skill is the capacity to do rapid collaborative knowledge building (RCKB) in a dynamic setting, we are interested to introduce practices for RCKB into classrooms. Through RCKB, students also have opportunities to learn and articulate their understanding in a deeper way than traditional classroom lessons. We describe a research project in which together with ...

Nerve agents: Lessons from the Iranian experiences

On September 22, 1980 Iraqis attacked Iran's air bases and simultaneously entered Iran with six army divisions on three fronts and occupied a vast part of Iranian territories. At that time, Iraqis did not have chemical warfare. But in time, they began to develop an intensive research program to produce and store chemical weapons and used the war fields to test and perfect their chemical warfare...