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Kenyan youth living and working in the streets are finding new ways to raise awareness about the issues that matter to them using online blogs and photography. Advocacy Project read more

Kirstina Rosinksy posts about her first blogging course with vulnerable children in Kenya. Wonderful initiative through the Undugu Society of Kenya and Advocacy Projects read more

Teaching vulnerable children to blog and use online photography tools Submitted by Sukuma on 28 July, 2008 - 13:04. Tags: Blogging ICT vulnerable children Kirstina Rosinksy posts about her first blogging course with vulnerable children in Kenya.

Kids can learn about micro-credit success stories and lend a helping hand by playing interactive games from an online initiative called One Hen. Each time a child wins a game and donates 'beads' Opportunity International gives a small loan to a poor entrepreneur.

Group 6 - Pimp My Neigborhood, originally uploaded by Red Colander. Just look at the wonderful things this school in Amsterdam have been getting up to! Nienke says: Our entire school just finished a project around the theme “I Live In… Amsterdam”. Every class examined a different subject.

TECHNOLOGY is changing the way we learn. That is a given as school students — the ubiquitous digital natives — come to class equipped with skills and expectations unparalleled in schools 20 years ago.

Like many educators new to the use of technology in the classroom, using Google as a search tool quickly became a staple in my classroom. Over the past year, Google has stretched their search capabilities to include an abundance of open source web applications tailor-made for teachers.

If I hadn’t fallen behind again on my RSS feeds, I might have had this last week… but I just realised that TED happened again this year - a few weeks ago, and now the videos are all online. It’s easily possible to spend a day just watching the TED videos - and I can guarantee that it wont be a day wasted, with so many fantastic thinkers and do-ers gathered together and sharing their ideas.

“The great mistake we educationists make is to suppose that schools are about education. It is not so…they are about control.” So said RF Mackenzie, and they are words I have quoted before on this blog and many times in talks around the world.

LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL There’s a video on YouTube that has generated nearly 1,000 views since it was posted last August. It isn’t the latest impressive basketball dunk or footage of pirates versus ninjas, but rather an instruction on adding fractions using different denominators.