Københavns Kommune sender som den første kommune i landet 3.000 af hovedstadens folkeskolelærere af sted på efteruddannelse samtidig. På det nystartede Sommeruniversitet undervises de i tre dage i fag som IT, didaktik, kommaundervisning, organisering og lærer-elev-relationer.

Blogger Lisa Michelle Dabbs in this post offers five tips to help new teachers become connected educators, in recognition of Connected Educator Month. She suggests teachers should be able to define what being a connected educator means, understand Web 2.0, be open to joining a social media network and blog.

Third-grade teacher Linda Yollis started a classroom blog in 2008, and said the site has been useful in communicating with parents and sharing students' work.

Teachers and students say that students increasingly are using technology to cheat. That includes lifting entire papers from the Internet, photographing exams and getting quiz answers from their cellphones. However, teachers also are using technology to catch cheaters by scouring the Internet for signs of plagiarism and using high-tech systems to observe students.

The type of classroom needed to a deliver a 21st-century education will not come cheap. As schools look to provide technology, such as iPads and interactive whiteboards, and consider the cost to maintain their infrastructure, schools are having to get creative to provide necessary resources under tight budgets.

As the gaming in education continues to grow, one of the foremost experts in the field, Constance Steinkuehler, makes the case for why it’s important to pay attention to what works in gaming and how it could be applied to learning.

The textbook -- either in hard copy or digital form -- no longer is necessary because of resources readily available online in the public domain, offers Colette Marie Bennett, the English department chair in her Connecticut district.

Indiska barn har fått rätt till gratis grundskola. Men landets nya skollag sänker utbildningens kvalitet, enligt kritiker. Barn i femte klass kan varken läsa eller räkna, visar en studie om Indiens skolbarn.

Special educator Janet Dunn, headteacher at a school for students with special needs in the United Kingdom, writes in this blog post about a programme in which teachers at traditional schools receive training from special educators and students with and without language, communication and speech disabilities are paired for weekly lessons.

In the past year there's been a real boom in online education platforms, but what sets these models apart from the average lecture-on-demand model? According to Stanford professor Daphne Koller, whose startup Coursera launched in February and has 640,000 students from 190 countries, if they really want to reach the masses, online learning platforms have…

In West Australia, Year 12 students are being advised to stop using social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, following research showing that such sites are associated with diminished academic achievement.

More schools in the United Kingdom have adopted "values-based education," which emphasises respect, courage, honesty, compassion and integrity. The teaching method differs from the competitive, test-driven approach taken at other schools, educators say.