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Contents contributed and discussions participated by John Evans

John Evans

Teaching In 2017: A Checklist For 21st Century Teachers - - 4 views

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    "What are the kind of things a 21st century teacher needs to know and be able to do? What about 21st century students? What education technology works, and what is a waste of time? What would a checklist for 21st century teaching look like? Does "21st century teaching" even make sense to use as a phrase anymore? If not, do we just say "teaching"? Does that fit our needs to innovate our collective profession to meet a modern circumstance? These are among the questions today's teachers have to face daily-in the classroom, mass media, professional development, and more. These conversations can get complex, opinionated, stuffed with rhetoric, and downright overwhelming at times. In response, Sylvia Duckworth has made consistent contributions to this conversation by creating colorful illustrations that communicate many of these ideas in easy-to-skim, easy-on-the-eyes, tempting to pin and share graphics."
John Evans

What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness | TED-Ed - 1 views

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    "What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? As the director of 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life."
John Evans

10 Best Coding Books for Kids - 1 views

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    "Coding books for kids are a fun way to spark an interest in web design, game making and programming. Although much of this information is available online, presenting information in a book format can help kids improve their literacy skills, and give them an easy reference without having to search. Some of the books are 'how to' manuals, while others are more interactive workbooks. There are also younger kid-friendly "lift the flap" books, that encourage little hands to explore and learn. Here is a run down of 10 of the coolest coding books for young learners."
John Evans

How to Save (and Share) Everything You Learn With These 11 Apps - 3 views

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    "Picture your brain. It's like a bucket. But a bucket with a leaky hole. Our brains are designed to be flytraps for new information and knowledge, but evolution put in a deliberate "flaw". It's easy to learn new things. But it is just as difficult to remember and hold on to new knowledge without effort."
John Evans

How to Speed Up Chrome and Fix Errors Without Reinstalling It - 2 views

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    "Your once snappy Chrome browser is dragging, and you don't know why. Do you blame Google, and switch to another browser to feel that new-browser smell once again? Not so fast! A browser reset is much less of a hassle, and will fix all kinds of issues-without deleting all your bookmarks and other data."
John Evans

Video Game Design with Elementary Learners | User Generated Education - 0 views

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    "In order to support interest and passion driven learning (all - I mean all - of my students play video games) as well as address cross-curricular content area integration of language arts, science, and technology standards, I had my gifted elementary learners, grades 2 through 6, do a semester long project on video game design."
John Evans

Scratch Across Every Subject: Visual and Media Arts | ScratchEd - 1 views

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    "In what ways do Scratch and visual & media arts inform one another? How can Scratch be a platform for artistic expression and vice versa? Can visual and media arts help introduce and extend computational creativity? Together, Scratch and art have limitless potential for learning and creating! We've started assembling Resources and Scratch Projects and we'd love your input! Do you have  lesson plans, activities, websites, videos, example projects, or something else to share?"
John Evans

5 Ways To Use Drones In The Classroom: Cherishing Students' Passion For Technology - eL... - 2 views

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    "Contrary to the belief that technology can be distracting for students, using drones in the classroom can be used as a tool for enriching students' imagination and awaking their natural curiosity."
John Evans

438 Free Online Programming & Computer Science Courses You Can Start in May - 1 views

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    "Five years ago, universities like MIT and Stanford first opened up free online courses to the public. Today, more than 700 schools around the world have created thousands of free online courses. Here are 250 Ivy League courses you can take online right now for free 250 MOOCs from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale. medium.freecodecamp.com I've compiled this list of over 438 such free online courses that you can start this month. For this, I leveraged Class Central's database of over 7,000 courses. I've also included each course's average rating"
John Evans

Students grades could be boosted by juggling | Daily Mail Online - 0 views

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    "Breaking up lessons with activities like juggling could help to boost pupils' science results, research suggests. It says that there is evidence that students respond well to short, 12-minute sessions, broken up with unrelated 'spaces' for children to do something different. Around 2,000 youngsters at 15 schools took part in the study, which aimed to build on neuroscience that suggests information can be more easily learnt and remembered when it is repeated several times, with spells of unrelated activity in between."
John Evans

Hate mathematics? Eddie Woo's WooTube might just be what you are looking for to make Ma... - 2 views

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    "WooTube, the brainchild of Woo, has over 45,000 subscribers and almost 4 million views. The 31-year-old maths teacher intends to create an interest in the subject through his YouTube channel."
John Evans

Number Talk Images - Accueil | Home - 3 views

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    "Un projet collaboratif qui a pour but de recueillir des images intéressantes qui peuvent servir comme point de départ pour des jasettes mathématiques  au sujet des nombres. ​ A collaborative project dedicated to gathering interesting images  ​to be used as a launching point for Number Talks."
John Evans

Digital Technologies - Scope and Sequence - Victorian Curriculum - 2 views

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    "The curriculum sets out what students are expected to learn and is designed as a continuum of learning. The curriculum is being presented in a scope and sequence chart to support teachers to easily see the progression and assist in planning teaching and learning programs to meet the diverse needs of students."
John Evans

Coding in the classroom | Pursuit by The University of Melbourne - 0 views

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    "Soon parents around the country will start receiving reports that assess their child against the new Digital Technologies curriculum. Every child from the first year of school to Year 10 will be working on this curriculum, although their skills will not be formally assessed until the end of Year 2 (7-year-olds)."
John Evans

By age 6, kids already think boys are better than girls in programming and robotics - G... - 0 views

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    "There's a lot of effort to attract women to the computer sciences at universities and the workforce. But to shift technology's gender imbalance we might need to focus on a younger crowd. Much younger - like 6-year-olds. For the first time, research from the University of Washington shows that by first grade, children are already embracing the stereotype that boys are better than girls at robotics and programming. At the same time, the kids believe that girls and boys are equally good or their own gender is better at math and other sciences. And girls with the strongest negative stereotypes about their genders' tech abilities also reported the least interest and personal skill in programming and robotics."
John Evans

Australian teachers are being trained to teach code to 5-year-old girls | Business Insider - 0 views

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    "Technology diversity advocacy body Girl Geek Academy has started a new teacher training course today with the eventual aim to teach coding to girls aged from 5 to 8 years."
John Evans

12 Websites That Can Make You Incredibly Smarter - 3 views

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    "Self-learning has been more popular as the amount of information available online is increasing, allowing us to broaden our views with any topics that interest us. As you can find almost any course you wish to attend online, on popular websites such as Coursera and Khan Academy, you can easily change your career and start learning about something that really inspires you. We present you with a list of 12 websites that you can use to expand your knowledge base and seize new opportunities."
John Evans

Understanding Dyslexia and the Reading Brain in Kids | MindShift | KQED News - 1 views

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    "At a recent talk for special education teachers at the Los Angeles Unified School District, child development professor Maryanne Wolf urged educators to say the word dyslexia out loud. "Don't ever succumb to the idea that it's going to develop out of something, or that it's a disease," she recalled telling teachers. "Dyslexia is a different brain organization that needs different teaching methods. It is never the fault of the child, but rather the responsibility of us who teach to find methods that work for that child." Wolf, who has a dyslexic son, is on a mission to spread the idea of "cerebrodiversity," the idea that our brains are not uniform and we each learn differently. Yet when it comes to school, students with different brains can often have lives filled with frustration and anguish as they, and everyone around them, struggle to figure out what is wrong with them."
John Evans

20 Apps Making Programming for Kids Exciting (Updated 2017) - 0 views

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    "How can programming for kids be fun? Through play, of course, and what better way than through apps! Learning to code is similar to learning a second language, and the younger a child begins to pick it up, the more rapidly he or she will understand it. In addition, programming apps can develop life skills such as critical thinking and problem solving. Today´s generation of parents are raising their children in a unique world, one unlike anything the human race has previously experienced. Most families are immersed in technology, whether they realize it or not. These technological devices require programming, or coding, to function, and it is a skill set that is becoming more and more necessary on an international level. These 20 apps, in no particular order, are hitting the mark and making programming for kids exciting and challenging."
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