Gymnasiale uddannelser - Engelsk (28/08 2011)

Student Journalism - The Value of School Newspapers (24/08 2011)

• Journalism education is facing a “perfect storm” of peril. Journalism classes are being crowded out by the urgency to drill students on core standardized-testing subjects.
• Cash-strapped states and districts are squeezing electives and extracurricular offerings in search of savings; one state, Kansas, nearly stopped financing journalism on the grounds that the profession no longer offers gainful career opportunities.
• And image-conscious school administrators are removing some of the profession’s best teachers in retaliation for student writing that’s considered excessively negative or controversial.

Book battles heat up over censorship vs. selection in school (21/08 2011)

• U.S. schools have banned more than 20 books and faced more than 50 other challenges this year, the American Library Association reports, and many more are expected this fall.
• "By far our busiest time is the early fall," says Angela Maycock of the association's Office for Intellectual Freedom. "When students go back to school, we see a real upswing in complaints."
• There is intense debate over whether those challenges involve censorship or are just parents seeking age-appropriate reading material.

Studenter går op til halv eksamen (20/08 2011)

• Når gymnasieelever går til studentereksamen i skriftlig engelsk og fysik, afspejler den langt fra, hvad eleverne er blevet undervist i.
• Det viser en ny undersøgelse lavet af forskere fra Aarhus Universitet. Og det er helt galt, siger professor Jens Rasmussen, en af forskerne bag undersøgelsen.
• »Hvis man ønsker at stille mål op for, hvad eleverne skal ende med at kunne, må det også være sådan, at prøverne skal teste det, eleverne skal have lært i undervisningen«, siger professoren.

Sådan bruger du netmediet i engelsk (19/08 2011)

• Kursusledere: Morten Petersen og Tony Søndergaard Andersen, undervisere på Odense Katedralskole.
• Kom godt i gang med webbaseret undervisning i engelsk. Kurset er for faggrupper i engelsk, der vil have inspiration og konkrete redskaber til at bruge netmediet i undervisningen.
• Med udgangspunkt i digitale materialer til engelsk gennemgås og drøftes de pædagogiske muligheder og materialernes konkrete anvendelighed i undervisningen.
• Formål: At give deltagerne grundlæggende forudsætninger for at bruge digitalt materiale i deres undervisning.

Poetry Pairing - Celebrating Philip Levine (12/08 2011)

• We interrupt our regularly scheduled Poetry Pairing today to celebrate the fact that Philip Levine, who writes “big-hearted, Whitmanesque poems about working-class Detroit,” has been named the next poet laureate.
• This week we pair a poem of Mr. Levine’s, “An Extraordinary Morning,” with a piece by Dwight Garner, a book critic at The Times, about Mr. Levine’s work.
• And we have further news: For the coming school year, we’re going to be tweaking this feature a bit.

Gymnasiedage: Det virtuelle i gymnasiet (10/08 2011)

• Kom til årets konference for de gymnasiale uddannelser, få ny inspiration til din undervisning og bliv opdateret i forhold til den nyeste forskning i gymnasiedidaktik og gymnasiepædagogik.
• GYMNASIEDAGE.DK har i år som overordnet tema Det virtuelle i gymnasiet:
• Inddrag det virtuelle i undervisningen – hvordan gør vi det
• Deltag i udviklingen af ideer
• Få inspiration ved at deltage i workshops om fx: Podcast, Facebook, Web 2.0, online kommunikation og 100 % lovlig brug af nettet.   Tirsdag eftermiddag er der Læringsbazar i udstillingsområdet.
• Se i en række korte undervisnings-sessioner, hvordan dine kolleger fra hele landet, sammen med elever fra Rødkilde Gymnasium, bruger de digitale læremidler i praksis. Diskutér pædagogiske potentialer og problemfelter med de andre deltagere. Og få en snak med udstillerne om interaktive tavler, i-bøger og andre digitale læremidler.
• Se hele programmet og tilmeld dig på http://www.gymnasiedage.dk. Konferencen arrangeres af gymnasiekonsulenter fra Centre for Undervisningsmidler i Danmark i samarbejde med IFPR, Syddansk Universitet.
• Bemærk: tilmeldingsfrist 1. september 2011

Second night of violence in London – and this time it was organised (08/08 2011)

• There was mounting evidence on Sunday night that some of the second night of rioting in London was part of an orchestrated plan, as violent disturbances broke out sporadically across parts of the capital. Police in riot gear were deployed across the city to deal with trouble in Enfield, six miles north of the site of riots in Tottenham, while looters later pillaged shops in Brixton.
• The scenes in Enfield, while reminiscent of Saturday night's clashes, were smaller in scale, and they took place from about 7pm.
• Læs mere i The Guardian.

'Det onde' (08/08 2011)

• På Skolekomkonferencen er der en kollega, der har efterlyst tekster om 'det onde', som kunne bruges til at perspektivere tragedien på Utøya.
• Her findes en liste over teksterne, som indtil videre er blevet foreslået:
• 1 Steinbecks novelle The Vigilante.
  2 Flannery O´Connors A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Den står i The Story and its Writer- bl.a.
  3 Så er der selvfølgelig alle High School Shooterne, hvis psykologi kan ligne ABBs. Information havde en spændende artikel om MASSEMORDETS ÆSTETIK med henvisning til en skupltur af Niles Bonde - hvis der skal flere billeder på.
  4 J. Fowles, The Collector?
  5 Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, Son of Satan (i Texting), Stigmata (Inside Stories), Hostage (den gamle Crime in Fiction)
  6 Graham Greenes novelle 'The Destructors'
• Følg med på Skolekom.

London riots - Monday's events as they happened (08/08 2011)

• Follow the latest news and updates live through the night
• Looting spread to Enfield, Brixton and Walthamstow
• Disturbances ongoing in Hackney, east London
• Blackberry messenger used to co-ordinate trouble
• Acting Met chief promises 'robust' response
• Read a summary of the latest events
This blog will update every minute

Evil - 'Det onde' - perspektiver til tragedien i Norge (08/08 2011)

• Inspireret af tragedien i Norge - og af kollegers forslag på Skolekom - er jeg begyndt på denne side.
• Det er formentlig et emne, som vil optage mange kolleger - og elever! - så indsend meget gerne jeres forslag til mig.

Tottenham riot: Sustained looting follows night of violence (07/08 2011)

• There were scenes of chaos in the early hours of Sunday morning as sustained looting spread from Tottenham to other nearby areas of Haringey.
• By midnight police managed to secure a 200-metre stretch of the Tottenham High Road, scene of some of the worst rioting on Saturday night. But as fire engines entered the street, and began putting out blazing cars and buildings, the rioters spread north and west through back-streets.
• To the north, at Tottenham Hale, Aldi supermarket was ransacked and set on fire. So too was a nearby carpet shop, causing a huge blaze. Looters turned up with cars and shopping trolleys to carry away stolen goods. Nearby, large groups of youths congregated in the surrounding streets with sticks, bottles and hammers. Some wore balaclava masks, preventing cars from accessing streets as buildings were broken into. Others used large rubbish bins to form burning barricades across the road.
• Læs mere i The Guardian.

The Homecoming – review (05/08 2011)

• It was the RSC that premiered Harold Pinter's play in 1965, so it seems fitting that the company should revive it as part of its 50th birthday celebrations.
• My only faint qualm about David Farr's finely calibrated production is that it could use a little more surface spontaneity rather than handling the play as if it were a revered classic.
• Læs Michael Billingtons anmeldelse i The Guardian.

Edinburgh festival 2011: where National Theatres meet (04/08 2011)

• Ten years ago, we had one national theatre, and everyone knew where it was: encased in a few million tonnes of concrete by the Thames.
• These days, it's not so straightforward. In addition to the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain – to give it the full, hat-doffing title – there is now Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, the national Welsh-language theatre founded in 2003.
• Three years later, the National Theatre of Scotland came along.
• Last year, the family swelled to four with the arrival of National Theatre Wales, which performs in English.
• Only Northern Ireland has failed to get in on the act – though there are murmurings it might.
• What with TGC and NTW, the NT and the NTS, British theatre is beginning to resemble a 1970s TUC conference.
• Læs mere i The Guardian.

Canadian theatre comes into its own (02/08 2011)

• Returning to the Shaw and Stratford Shakespeare festivals in Ontario after 25 years was a revelation, with Jesus Christ Superstar and The President helping me to see the light.
• Back in the late 1970s I was a regular visitor to Canada's two big theatrical jamborees: the Stratford Shakespeare festival and the Shaw festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake. In those days, if I'm honest, the big draw at Stratford was the luminous presence of Maggie Smith, which was then run by her fellow Brit, Robin Phillips.
• Paying a whistlestop return visit last week to both festivals, I was staggered by the changes.
• Læs hele Michael Billingtons artikel i The Guardian.