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Andrew Williamson

Great Interactive iPad Storybook Apps for Your Kids ~ Educational Technology and Mobile... - 0 views

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    "Looking for some good interactive eBooks for your kids to read this summer? The list below is a great place to start with. These are basically iPad storybook apps that are designed specifically to enhance kids early literacy skills most specifically reading. All of these  eBooks come with awesome graphics and animations and include a wide variety of interactive  activities to keep kids engaged in their reading."
Andrew Williamson

Education Rethink: Kids Don't Actually Hate That - 1 views

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    Kids don't hate math. Not even fractions. Ask them to divide a bag of candy among themselves and watch them tackle the problem. What they hate is repeat computation, void of context. Add a timer and they really hate it.
Andrew Williamson

First Take: Can Your Children "Design Their Own Professions?" - 0 views

  • Most schools, even “good” schools, are about getting our kids to “fit in” and “duplicate” what’s already been done. I look at the work my own kids bring home and see little if anything that allows them to stand out and invent. You? The bottom line is, once again, schools have little context for the world as it might become, especially when policy makers at state and national levels continue to reinforce a worldview of learning and work that is quickly being passed by.
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    The important issue here for us is not so much that change is occurring so quickly when it comes to the prospects of work for our kids. As technology evolves, there's no doubt that more and more traditional jobs are going to be replaced and new, different ones created. Whether you believe that's "progress" or not, it's hard to slow it down.
Andrew Williamson

40+ iPad Apps for Reading Disabilities ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views

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    "Whether you're the parent of a child with a reading disability or an educator that works with learning disabled students on a daily basis, you're undoubtedly always looking for new tools to help these bright young kids meet their potential and work through their disability. While there are numerous technologies out there that can help, perhaps one of the richest is the iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike. Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle."
Andrew Williamson

Spelling Word Games - 1 views

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    "Teachers have known forever that happy, engaged students are better learners - especially when it comes to tough material. And learning how to spell is so hard for many kids."
Sam Laffy

Interior Angles of Polygons - 1 views

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    Table of 'rules' for the interior angles of polygons. Extension activity can be used with top kids regarding algebraic rules
Andrew Williamson

Need a Job? Invent It - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • That is a tall task. I tracked Wagner down and asked him to elaborate. “Today,” he said via e-mail, “because knowledge is available on every Internet-connected device, what you know matters far less than what you can do with what you know. The capacity to innovate — the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life — and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge. As one executive told me, ‘We can teach new hires the content, and we will have to because it continues to change, but we can’t teach them how to think — to ask the right questions — and to take initiative.’
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    WHEN Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist, describes his job today, he says he's "a translator between two hostile tribes" - the education world and the business world, the people who teach our kids and the people who give them jobs. Wagner's argument in his book "Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World" is that our K-12 and college tracks are not consistently "adding the value and teaching the skills that matter most in the marketplace."
Andrew Williamson

Why teaching music is vital for kids | The Advertiser - 0 views

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    IN Australia, primary school teachers receive, on average, 17 hours of mandatory music education in their teacher education courses. In South Australia it is even less. In Finland it is 270 hours. What is 17 hours of music education supposed to achieve? One has to ask: Why bother?
Andrew Williamson

How to use parental controls on iPhone and iPad: The ultimate guide | iMore - 0 views

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    Parental Controls, also known as Restrictions, allow you to set what your children can and can't access on an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. With Parental Controls, you can lock out Safari, Camera, FaceTime, Siri, AirDrop, CarPlay, the iTunes, iBooks, Podcasts, or App Stores (including in-app purchases), as well as content by age rating, and the ability to make changes to accounts and other app settings. In other words, they're a way to block your child's access to anything and everything you deem inappropriate for them based on their age and sensitivity, and your own best judgement. And they're part of what make Apple devices an ideal computing platform for kids!
Andrew Williamson

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 10 of The Best Chrome Apps for Math Teachers - 0 views

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    "This is a list that comprises some of the best math apps and extensions in Chrome store. We have literally gone through hundreds of apps to finally decide on the apps that would make the cut.These extensions are meant to help kids develop math skills through a wide variety of exercises, activities, games, interactive simulations and many more. Some of these apps are integrated with Google Drive and are also available for  iPad, Android, and Chromebooks."
Megan McGowan

Illustrated Story Starters - Young Writers Workshop - 0 views

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    A collection of illustrated story starters for young children to prompt creative writing.
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