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Cara Whitehead

British Spelling - 0 views

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    To accommodate differences, Vocabulary and SpellingCity had added several lists of British spelling words and their corresponding US words.
John Evans

Britain Magazine | The official magazine of Visit Britain | Diamond Jubilee, Best of Br... - 0 views

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    "Whether you're planning a day trip through one of Britain's national parks or trying to find somewhere tasty for dinner, we've found an iPhone and iPad app for every requirement to make sure your travels are the best that they can be."
Phil Taylor

The British Library Digitised Manuscripts - 3 views

  • The Digitised Manuscripts web pages give access to fully digitised manuscripts held at the British Library, with their descriptions
John Evans

WolframAlpha: The Answer To All Your Questions | iPad.AppStorm - 4 views

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    "Since being released in 2009, Wolfram Alpha has become very popular over the years. Based on the computational platform Mathematica, written by British scientist Stephen Wolfram in 1988, WolframAlpha is capable of interpreting and answering basic questions such as, "How old was FDR in 1942?" and "What is the distance between the north pole and the south pole?""
Javier Mejia Torrenegra

Algunas Consideraciones Sobre el Origen del Ebook - 1 views

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    En este amplio mundo del conocimiento me he encontrado el tema de la historia del ebook del libro que escribió Marie Lebert y traducido por Anna Álvarez, y me pareció interesante por esa razón quiero compartir en forma resumida algunos aspectos sobresalientes del mismo con todos mis lectores. El libro ha cambiado mucho desde 1971. El libro impreso tiene cinco siglos y medio de edad. El libro digital casi tiene 40. Nace con el Proyecto Gutenberg, creado en julio de 1971 por Michael Hart con el fin de distribuir gratuitamente las obras del dominio público por vía electrónica. Pero habrá que esperar hasta el advenimiento de la web y del primer navegador para que el Proyecto Gutenberg encuentre su velocidad de crucero. Señal de los tiempos que corren, en noviembre del año 2000, la British Library pone en línea la versión digital de la Biblia de Gutenberg, el primer libro impreso. Aquella Biblia - datada de 1454 o 1455 -, fue impresa por Gutenberg en 180 ejemplares en su taller de Maguncia, en Alemania.
John Evans

Make-believe play boosts creative thinking in children: study | CTV News - 2 views

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    "New U.K. research from has found that make-believe fantasy play could boost children's creative thinking. Carried out by researchers from Oxford Brookes University, the team presented their findings at the British Psychological Society's Developmental Psychology Section annual conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland."
John Evans

The Fabulous Field Trip Guide: Mobile Learning and QR Codes | Tech Learning - 2 views

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    " The Fabulous Field Trip Guide: Mobile Learning and QR Codes 7/6/2016 12:10:00 AM By Shelly Terrell "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."- Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go! In 2012, I visited the British Library with Terry Freedman. I was astounded by how much interaction I was able to have with the exhibits. I got to experience the exhibits with 3D glasses, touch tabletop screens, and scan QR codes. As I venture to more museums, landmarks and national parks, I have noticed how these sites are making their exhibits more engaging by adding a mobile component. Before planning your next field trip, discover ways the site is integrating QR codes, mobile apps, and . Check out my recommended apps and tips below along with a slide presentation (free to download) and bookmarks. Check out the rest of The Fabulous Field Trip Guide with suggested activities, virtual field trips, and virtual reality and augmented reality apps and web tools."
John Evans

Tips2012 iPad App Guide #19: The Elements | TPACK iPads in Schools - 0 views

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    "The Elements: A Visual Exploration, by Theodore Gray, is a simply stunning iPad app with mesmerising high-definition graphics, videos, and detailed information for every element in the Periodic Table. While users can't copy information out of the app, it is possible to save screenshots. This app is available in American and British English versions, and is translated into French, German, and Japanese (check the description)."
John Evans

The Web is 25 years old today - so how has it changed the way we learn? « Lea... - 2 views

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    "25 years ago today, on 12 March 1989, the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal to develop a distributed information system for CERN, and in doing so lay down the foundation for what was to become the World Wide Web. In the ensuing 25 years there can be few people whose lives haven't been influenced by the Web in some way or other. But how has it changed the way we learn? "
John Evans

Self-regulation technique helps students focus in class - Canada - CBC News - 6 views

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    "At Cindrich elementary school in Surrey, B.C., 10-year-old boys are putting themselves to bed earlier, an enthusiastic girl in Grade 6 takes herself for a run when she's feeling hyper, and a diminutive boy who is still learning English tells his teacher he will do better work if he sits on a special cushion. It is all part of self-regulation, a philosophy of education that is moving into public schools in British Columbia."
John Evans

How Music Can Improve Memory | MindShift - 1 views

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    "The best way to remember facts might be to set them to music. Medical students, for example, have long used rhymes and songs to help them master vast quantities of information, and we've just gotten fresh evidence of how effective this strategy can be. A young British doctor, Tapas Mukherjee of Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, was distressed by a survey showing that 55 percent of nurses and doctors at Glenfield were not following hospital guidelines on the management of asthma; 38 percent were not even aware that the guidelines existed."
Phil Taylor

BBC - A History of the World - Home - 6 views

  • This site uses objects to tell a history of the world. You’ll find 100 objects from the British Museum and hundreds more from museums and people across the UK.
John Evans

The City :: Login - 6 views

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    "The City is a learning program developed by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) and the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC). It teaches young people financial skills that they can carry with them throughout their lives. "
John Evans

The Startup That's Bringing Coding to the World's Classrooms | Business | WIRED - 2 views

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    "This fall, the entire British school system will embrace computer science. The UK is the first G8 country to include computer science education in its national curriculum, and the move could serve as a test case for so many other nations across the globe, including the United States. As computing comes to dominate our world, programming skills are more valuable than ever, but even the U.S.-the center of the technology universe-is still struggling to bring coding into the classroom. Part of the problem is that, before students learn how to code, their teachers must learn too. Pulling all that off is a massive endeavor."
John Evans

Teachers: Join us for the adventure of a lifetime | Nat Geo Education Blog - 5 views

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    "Calling all teachers! We're looking for 25, K-12 teachers, in the U.S. or Canada, to join us in 2014 for an all-expense-paid adventure of a lifetime. This field-based PD experience could take you to the Arctic, The Atlantic Islands, The British Isles, Holland & Belgium, or even Antarctica!"
John Evans

1:1 in the wild: Using tablets in outdoor education - Innovate My School - 0 views

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    "Mobile learning devices are great for classroom use, but to get the most out of them, lots of educators believe in taking tablets outside. With British weather now entertaining the idea of being pleasant, teacher and outdoor learning-expert Juliet Robertson gives her thoughts on how best to get the most out of this field."
John Evans

Five Common Myths about the Brain - Scientific American - 3 views

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    "ome widely held ideas about the way children learn can lead educators and parents to adopt faulty teaching principles Jan 1, 2015 Credit: Kiyoshi Takahase segundo MYTH HUMANS USE ONLY 10 PERCENT OF THEIR BRAIN FACT The 10 percent myth (sometimes elevated to 20) is mere urban legend, one perpetrated by the plot of the 2011 movie Limitless, which pivoted around a wonder drug that endowed the protagonist with prodigious memory and analytical powers. In the classroom, teachers may entreat students to try harder, but doing so will not light up "unused" neural circuits; academic achievement does not improve by simply turning up a neural volume switch. MYTH "LEFT BRAIN" and "RIGHT BRAIN" PEOPLE DIFFER FACT The contention that we have a rational left brain and an intuitive, artistic right side is fable: humans use both hemispheres of the brain for all cognitive functions. The left brain/right brain notion originated from the realization that many (though not all) people process language more in the left hemisphere and spatial abilities and emotional expression more in the right. Psychologists have used the idea to explain distinctions between different personality types. In education, programs emerged that advocated less reliance on rational "left brain" activities. Brain-imaging studies show no evidence of the right hemisphere as a locus of creativity. And the brain recruits both left and right sides for both reading and math. MYTH YOU MUST SPEAK ONE LANGUAGE BEFORE LEARNING ANOTHER FACT Children who learn English at the same time as they learn French do not confuse one language with the other and so develop more slowly. This idea of interfering languages suggests that different areas of the brain compete for resources. In reality, young children who learn two languages, even at the same time, gain better generalized knowledge of language structure as a whole. MYTH BRAINS OF MALES AND FEMALES DIFFER IN WAYS THAT DICTATE LEARNING ABILITIES FACT Diffe
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