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The Finnish National Board of Education - Current issues The news that Finland is abolishing teaching separate subjects has recently hit the headlines world-wide. Subject teaching is not being abolished although the new core curriculum for basic education will bring about some changes in 2016. The subjects common to all students in basic education are stipulated in the Basic Education Act, and the allocation of lesson hours among school subjects is prescribed in the Decree given by the Government. However, education providers have had a high degree of freedom in implementing nationally set objectives for more than twenty years. The new core curriculum for basic education that will be implemented in school in August 2016 contain some changes which might have given rise to the misunderstanding. The pupils should participate each year in at least one such multidisciplinary learning module.

Sexting | Envío mediante el teléfono móvil de imágenes con contenido sexual Tuesday Tool Tip: Using Scrivener for Complex Academic Writing Projects - Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians I became aware of Scrivener, an alternative writing tool, several years ago, and have been intrigued ever since. At first glance, the benefit for creative writers is clear, but numerous scholars also use Scrivener. Here’s part of the description from the product page: “a powerful content generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents . . . . its focus is to help you get to the end of that awkward first draft.” While word processors really focus on generating text in linear fashion, Scrivener is adapted for managing writing projects which take shape in a more reflexive or piecemeal style. How could this fail to be of interest to academics? Benefits As an example of a general endorsement, Ryan Cordell had this to say on ProfHacker on March 8, 2010: “Scrivener is essential [to daily workflow] . . . . There is a companion product, Scapple, for making maps of your ideas, which can then be imported into Scrivener. See also:

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