Mouse Monster

卡蒂是一个十分淘气的小老鼠,一天到晚总爱想着法子,装神弄鬼地吓唬别人,可是这一次,却把自己吓得半死……从此她再也不敢捉弄别人了。想了解这个故事吗？赶快来读一读吧！     

The IEA Studies of Reading and Writing Literacy: a 1996 perspective

The paper reviews IEA literacy studies. It analyses them in the light of theories of literacy, cross‐cultural perspectives, and their practical and theoretical value. It points out that, despite some well‐grounded theoretical perspectives, in reality, the IEA instruments test only certain aspects of ‘formal’ literacy. The paper explores the cultural colonisation of IEA instruments by ‘Western’ literacy forms, expressed partly through the training and administrative structures of the IEA and partly through the existing international dominance of such forms. It looks at the implicit assumptions made about literacy through the use of particular statistical item response models and suggests that there are important lessons to be learnt from the IEA experience. It concludes with some suggestions for future work.     

Teachers' Mini-Case Studies of Children's Mathematics

This article reports findings from a five-day summer institute conducted with 27 practicing primary-grade teachers. The institute was part of a year-long professional development project that supported teachers' thinking about children's arithmetical understanding. From Quicktime movies that contained excerpts of six children's interviews, pairs of teachers developed mini-cases about the children's arithmetical understanding. At the end of the institute, the teachers presented their mini-case studies to the group. Teachers developed two types of hypotheses: hypotheses about children's thinking and hypotheses about what it means for children to know and do mathematics. After providing examples to clarify the two types of hypotheses, we address the challenges we faced in developing multimedia inquiry-based environments that facilitated teachers' thinking about children's arithmetical thinking. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

1000＋Coffees：熟悉的陌生人,出来喝杯咖啡

近几年,社交网络火遍全球。脸书、人人、微信、微博……登陆账号,亲朋好友的实时状态铺天盖地而来。仔细一看,前二十条状态里竟有一半对不上脸的不知名好友,或欢天喜地晒出游美图,或字句忧伤吐露心中愤懑,好不容易看到个熟人,想点赞评论又不知说什么好。网络时代,我们都在虚拟社交圈成为了熟悉的陌生人。为了改变这样的窘境,今年九月,一名澳大利亚的年轻小伙Matt Kuleza启动了一项咖啡交友计划,把自己在脸书（facebook）上的1000多名好友逐个邀请出来喝咖啡。