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John Evans

The Clever Sheep: Coping With Too Much Wisdom - 2 views

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    Great post on coping with the information overload by Rodd Lucier aka The Clever Sheep
John Evans

iPads in Primary Education: Part 2: Raising Standards in Boys' Writing using the iPad f... - 3 views

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    "A group of children took part in a series of literacy lessons centred around the popular game Bike Baron by Qwibooand Mountain Sheep as outlined in detail athttp://mrandrewsonline.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/part-1-raising-standards-in-boys.html. The aim was to raise standards in writing. The work is based on the success of the Controllable Vehicle project which demonstrated that the iPad can significantly enhance pupil understanding and interest in a topic leading to accelerated progress in speaking, listening and writing."
John Evans

8 Free iPad Reading Apps for Young Learners - 0 views

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    "Anyway if you are reading this and still did not make up your mind about which tablet can work for you then let me help you make your decision and check out this list of The Top 10 Tablets for Educators. Back to our sheep. Below is a list of some of the best free iPad apps that will help your students and kids learn how to write letters, develop phonics and sharpen their reading skills."
John Evans

One thought at a time: Who Are You Calling A Sheep? - 7 views

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    Do you want to be a leader or a follower?
John Evans

'Robot Garden' to Teach Basic Coding Concepts - 0 views

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    "Here's one way to get kids excited about programming: a "robot garden" with dozens of fast-changing LED lights and more than 100 origami robots that can crawl, swim and blossom like flowers. A team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering has developed a tablet-operated system that illustrates their cutting-edge research on distributed algorithms via robotic sheep, origami flowers that can open and change colors and robotic ducks that fold into shape by being heated in an oven."
John Evans

Talks to inspire you to go to bed and get a good night's sleep | TED Talks - 2 views

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    "Far better than counting sheep, these talks on the importance of sleep may well help you get your zzzzs tonight."
John Evans

The Clever Sheep: 25 Great Ways to Spark Creativity - 1 views

  • Nice list! I've seen some clever teachers use Big Huge Labs to have kids design movie posters based on books they've read for class. The kids loved it.
  • The web hosts a wide variety of content generators that can be used to creatively update blog posts; to teach information literacy; and to just plain have fun.
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      Neat idea for my SS Class!
John Evans

The Clever Sheep: 14 Tools to Teach about Creative Commons - 0 views

  • One of the most powerful, misunderstood and under-utilized tools for teaching 21st century skills, is the Creative Commons. Besides providing access to hundreds of thousands of media works that can be used to augment the creative process, the Creative Commons offers a legitimate way for students to license their own creative works, be they audio, video, text or hybrid products.
John Evans

The Clever Sheep: Cell Phones in the Classroom - 0 views

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    Cell Phones in the Classroom How is your school leveraging cell phone technology for student learning?
Phil Taylor

Crowds and Clouds: Data, Sheep, and Collaboration in the Works of Aaron Koblin | MIT World - 3 views

  • Where others see just data points and fodder for bar graphs, Aaron Koblin visualizes dynamic systems where information assumes forms both abstract and familiar. I
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