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Janice Wilson Butler

Franciosi - Making ESL/EFL Classroom Activities More Game-like - 0 views

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    ELL students and gaming
Ricardo Soria

Cloud Concentration - 6 views

like it. it does help to learn cloud names or types. good job Charles.

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Tamara Remhof

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Family and Educational Games & Interactives - 0 views

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    Games kids in grade pre-k through adult can play. However, most are geared toward elementary grades. It also has activity pages that can be printed for use in the classroom. d_3, gl_E, ev_4, y_f2
Janice Wilson Butler

Child Power: Keys to the New Learning of the Digital Century - 0 views

  • First, I am going to be talking about giving the children power to control their own learning process. And if they're controlling their own learning process, this is in radical contradiction with the idea of the set curriculum, the linear order and the arrangement of learning by age-segregated grades. I am also going to use the term child power to refer to another aspect, and that is to the political power of children as a major force in producing educational change. I opened by referring to what looked like a pessimistic sense of what is happening in educational policy-making. I anticipate megachange in the way children learn. When we look around us we see not only an absence of megachange, we see a number of ways in which policy seems to be designed to prevent the megachange. The attitude expressed in the Research Machines ad that I quoted shows this in a general way. You see it in many specific aspects of current educational discussion. I'll mention two. In our country, as I believe in yours, there has recently been a mounting pressure for standardized tests to be applied to students. The reason given for wanting these tests is couched in terms like we need to impose standards; education is deteriorating; children are emerging from school illiterate, ignorant, bereft of moral values. And in many ways people look around and see that the school system, at least for many members of society, seems not to be working. What to do about this? I think what we do about it depends on your answer to the question about whether the problem is that school is changing too much or school is changing too little. I think we live in a society in which a rapid and accelerating change in social life and the economy and the kind of work that people do is transforming the need for knowledge. And I think this is pretty widely accepted that knowledge in the twenty-first century is going to be very different. The need for knowledge is going to be very different. You can capture this by noting that even today a very substantial proportion of people are engaged in work in jobs that did not exist when they were born, and that number is increasing. So the model that says learn while you're at school, while you're young, the skills that you will apply during your lifetime is no longer tenable. The skills that you can learn when you're at school will not be applicable. They will be obsolete by the time you get into the workplace and need them, except for one skill. The one really competitive skill is the skill of being able to learn. It is the skill of being able not to give the right answer to questions about what you were taught in school, but to make the right response to situations that are outside the scope of what you were taught in school. We need to produce people who know how to act when they're faced with situations for which they were not specifically prepared.
  • I see technology as tending to render obsolete almost all features that we would regularly associate with the structure of school.
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    "First, I am going to be talking about giving the children power to control their own learning process. And if they're controlling their own learning process, this is in radical contradiction with the idea of the set curriculum, the linear order and the arrangement of learning by age-segregated grades. I am also going to use the term child power to refer to another aspect, and that is to the political power of children as a major force in producing educational change.
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    While not specifically about gaming, Seymour Papert predicted change in classroom accurately many years ago. Worth a read.
Tamara Remhof

FOSS Web - 0 views

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    It wasn't until after I registered that it hit me, I have these kits in my library! Teachers come in and drool over them because they're complete and most of the time, the kits the teachers have in their classrooms are completely empty. Teachers register for free and share their username and password with their students. This is the middle school module, they also have modules for K-2, and 3-6.
jim higgs

financial football - 0 views

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    Play Financial Football, learn money management Financial Football, a fast-paced, NFL-themed video game, tests your money management skills. It's part of Visa's free financial literacy program, Practical Money Skills for Life. The website provides useful financial literacy information for ages kindergarten through adult, including free lesson plans and other classroom materials. www.PracticalMoneySkills.com
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