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A sampling of mobile apps for German-learners. Apps for learning and improving your German vocabulary and grammar, plus games and quizzes.
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La ministre allemande de l'Education, Annette Schavan, proche de la chancelière d'Angela Merkel, s'est vu retirer mardi son titre de docteur en raison d'un plagiat dans sa thèse il y a trente-trois ans.
Gust MEES's insight:
La ministre allemande de l'Education, Annette Schavan, proche de la chancelière d'Angela Merkel, s'est vu retirer mardi son titre de docteur en raison d'un plagiat dans sa thèse il y a trente-trois ans.
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It has always been the case that teachers collect content for their classroom activities. In Austria, there is a saying: “Teachers are collectors and hunters”.
They collect all usable content and hunt for the best bits in order to reuse it for their classroom activities. This, of course, has never quite complied with copyright laws. But in pre-internet times this was not a major concern as teachers’ materials were almost never published outside of the classroom.
Now, however, teachers’ ability to ‘hunt and collect’, and the boundless opportunities to share their material online, make it necessary to look for new strategies and at the same time raise teachers’ awareness about copyright issues.
Some schools in Austria have actually received cease-and-desist orders from lawyers for copyright violations, for example using copyright protected pictures on their websites.
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Annette Schavan, Germany’s education minister, has been stripped of her doctorate following an investigation of claims that she plagiarized parts of her thesis. A committee of academics at Heinrich Heine University, in Düsseldorf, made the decision late Tuesday after considering the case. The country’s former defense minister quit two years ago in the wake of a similar controversy.
Gust MEES's insight:
Annette Schavan, Germany’s education minister, has been stripped of her doctorate following an investigation of claims that she plagiarized parts of her thesis. A committee of academics at Heinrich Heine University, in Düsseldorf, made the decision late Tuesday after considering the case. The country’s former defense minister quit two years ago in the wake of a similar controversy.
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18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTED LEARNING & TRAINING
REACHING BEYOND TOMORROW
We expect flexibility – we want to be able to choose, to adapt. We don’t want the past or tradition to dictate to us. Technology has given us the freedom to do this.
As the overall theme for ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2012, 'Reaching Beyond Tomorrow,' will investigate how we get from our present situation in the midst of a crisis, to a brighter, better and more inclusive future in which technology enables everyone to improve and enrich themselves.
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