(i)
So Reading Age = ( L × 0.0778 ) + ( N × 0.0455 ) + 2.7971 years.
This test is NOT suitable for secondary age books, and is most suitable for material in the 7 - 10 age range.

A number of informal procedures can be used in the classroom to assess fluency

(NICHHD, 2000):

􀂃 informal reading inventories

􀂃 miscue analysis

􀂃 pausing indices

􀂃 running records

􀂃 reading speed calculations.

At the heart of Sugata Mitra’s work is his dramatic exposition of the fact that children are highly capable of organising their own learning. “I thought, 'What would happen if you just leave a computer with them?' and I have discovered from similar results from around the world that children can achieve on their own…” he says. “If they have a reason to.”

This has inspired him to form a theory about “self organising systems for education” which, if fully developed, appear to have profound consequences for teaching and learning in schools, colleges and universities and the education system world-wide. And his emerging work in England is already beginning to support this.

Sugata has begun to test this theory in the North East of England in Gateshead where he placed 32 10-year-olds in eight groups of four, each with just one computer, a netbook, between them.

“My hardest job was just getting the teachers out of the room,” he said, “and it is really important that the pupils have to share the computer; they can switch groups, observe other groups and learn from each other. Interestingly one child responded “You mean cheat sir!”

The children were set real questions, including six from last year’s GCSE exams, and the outcomes were astonishing. “The quickest group produced a full and correct answer in 20 minutes… The slowest group took just 45 minutes and this demonstrates that groups of children can navigate the net to achieve educational objectives on their own.”

When I met Arthur C Clarke some years ago when he was interested in the “hole in the wall” experiment, he told me, ‘A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.’ The second thing he told me was, ‘If children have interest, then education happens."

Nobody works harder at tlearning than a curious kid-

Daniel pink

If you leave it on the pavement and all the adults go away ...then they will show off to each other what they can do..

True inquiry and HO skills

The method of the grandmother..stand behind say “thats great”..”why does that haoppen” “Can you show me more of that?”

Grandmothers were asked to give 1hr of broadband time in their homes once a week
skype...the granny cloud