OneNote vs. Evernote: A personal take on two great note-taking apps. Let the note-taking wars begin. With Microsoft's release of OneNote for the Mac and iOS , and its announcement that the Windows application is now free as well, the company has taken dead aim at the popular program Evernote. The two applications now both work on the same platforms (including mobile OSes such as Android, iOS and Windows Phone), sync your notes to your devices and include Web-based versions. But they also have some very distinct differences. So which is better? I'm a long-time user of both applications, so I've taken a look at the latest version of each for Windows, OS X, iPad, iPhone and Android. OneNote: A great way to get organized OneNote has been around as part of Microsoft Office since 2003, and it's very much a full-blown application.
It bristles with note-creation tools for drawing, recording audio and video, scanning images, embedding spreadsheets and reviewing the edits of others (although the abilities of those tools differ somewhat depending on the platform). 12_TEAL_Deeper_Learning_Qs_complete_5_1_0. AE_SPRNG.pdf. The thinking behind Citizen Maths | Citizen Maths Information Hub. Once Citizen Maths got underway, people interested in the learning and teaching of maths started to ask us to explain our thinking. Here is Dave Pratt’s and Seb Schmoller’s overview. Who the course is for Citizen Maths is a free open online maths course for: self-motivated individuals whose level of mathematical capability is at or above NVQ Level 1, but is not yet at NVQ Level 3, and who want to improve it [Note for international readers: Level 2 is the level that 16 year old school leavers are expected to achieve.
About 60% do so.] ;employers who want to provide staff (or trade unions their members) with a practical and flexible learning and development opportunity in maths;colleges and other learning providers who want to give enrolled learners an additional or alternative route to improving their maths. Learners will need to have use of (and know how to use) a desktop or laptop computer with a broadband internet connection. Our approach Free and open Mathematics considerations. Add the ability for Webinar Attendees to chat with each other.
Citizen Maths - Course. Praise feels good, but negativity is stronger – Jacob Burak. I have good news and bad news. Which would you like first? If it’s bad news, you’re in good company – that’s what most people pick. But why? Negative events affect us more than positive ones. We remember them more vividly and they play a larger role in shaping our lives. Popular now Science needs the freedom to constantly change its mind Why is it legitimate to change genders, but not ethnicity? Contagion, poison, trigger: books have always been dangerous Hundreds of scientific studies from around the world confirm our negativity bias: while a good day has no lasting effect on the following day, a bad day carries over. Daily Weekly Our gloomy bent finds its way into spoken language, with almost two thirds of English words conveying the negative side of things.
We’re so attuned to negativity that it penetrates our dreams. Even brief contact with a cockroach will usually render a delicious meal inedible Other researchers applied these findings to the world of business. Explore Aeon Neuroscience. The myth about social mobility in Britain: it’s not that bad, says new report. It is generally accepted by all political parties and most of the media that social mobility in the UK is low compared to other countries, and worsening over time. These “facts” appeared in the manifestos of all three major parties at the last election.
This has led to the creation of a mobility tsar and the expenditure of billions of pounds of public funding. So how is it possible that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in a report out today, reports very high upward inter-generational educational mobility in the UK and a very strong link between education and subsequent earnings? Education at a Glance suggests that more of the adult population of the UK, aged 25 to 64, is educated to higher education (university graduate) level than in any other EU country.
This rose from 25.68% of adults in 2000 to 40.98% in 2012. Education appears to matter. Click to enlarge Resolving the apparent contradiction The opportunity cost. Don’t cut translations to fund English lessons for migrants. A new report from the think-tank Demos is calling for a new national strategy for the way we teach English to migrants in the UK. Its researchers point to 850,000 people in the most recent census who said they could not speak English properly. I broadly agree with the tenor of the report and its calls for wider changes in policy and funding of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL). It is these that need fixing, rather than the way professionals are actually teaching English to migrants. But I disagree with the suggestion that money could be saved from translating local council documents and spent on English teaching.
This is simplistic and ignores the reality on the ground for many migrants. Short-term funding Many of the report’s insights echo what informed opinion in the field, such as the National Association for Teaching English and Community Languages to Adults, the Action for ESOL campaign, and NIACE have been saying for a number of years. Don’t cut back from translation. Adult skills international survey 2012: main findings. The puzzle of UK graduates and their low-level literacy. UK adults with tertiary education ranked 12th among the OECD despite the reputation of its universities Source: Alamy Not as simple as ABC: the weak literacy skills of UK graduates is mystifying The UK is ranked relatively low among the most developed nations for the literacy skills of graduates, with its performance described as “a puzzle” given the elevated reputation of its universities.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s annual Education at a Glance report, released on 9 September, this year includes a new feature: a measurement of how adults with tertiary education perform on literacy skills in each OECD nation. Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s director for education and skills, described the measure – in which Japan, the Netherlands and Finland perform best – as offering “an important new dimension” and suggesting that “similar degrees may have a different skills value”.
“But it’s a puzzle. John.morgan@tesglobal.com Click to rate 0 out of 5 stars. Committee calls for national campaign on adult literacy and numeracy. In light of an OECD survey of 24 countries ranking England and Northern Ireland 22nd for literacy and 21st for numeracy, the Committee also calls for a more joined-up Government approach to tackling the problem, improved funding arrangements, and better assessment and support of the literacy and numeracy needs of unemployed people. The Committee found that adults struggling most at English and maths are not getting the help and support needed. While the Government pledges free training and tuition for any adult who wishes to study English and maths up to and including GCSE level, the Committee heard that adults with the most limited English and maths skills were not aware of the support available.
Adrian Bailey MP, Chair of the Committee, said: "Problems with reading, writing and maths have a huge impact on people’s daily lives, including getting and keeping a job, understanding bills, forms and documents, and guiding children through education. Adrian Bailey MP, Chair: Image: iStockphoto. Apple- Child labour, Child Labour in China - ThingLink. Toolkit. Protect Paradise: An Animation about Palm Oil. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013.
Exploring evidence-based teaching – live chat | Teacher Network | Guardian Professional. This year neuroscientists will be going into schools to try to gain a better understanding of how children learn. The £6m initiative aims to improve classroom practice and dispel myths about how the brain functions. One of the organisations backing the scheme is the Education Endowment Foundation. Kevan Collins, its chief executive, believes there's a need for evidence-based education research that's "politician proof". He says that lots of ideas "catch on" in schools to improve learning, but there's often a lack of clear evidence showing that they work. He's concerned that at times this means schools risk doing more harm than good and points to Saturday morning classes as an example of this – it's unclear whether they benefit pupil learning or damage motivation.
Recently, I came across an interesting blog post that explores these issues by Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the RSA, a charity focused on finding solutions to social challenges. Our panel.