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Jill Bergeron

Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern For Others And The Common Good Through College Admi... - 0 views

  • Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions marks the first time in history that a broad coalition of college admissions offices have joined forces to collectively encourage high school students to focus on meaningful ethical and intellectual engagement. The report includes concrete recommendations to reshape the college admissions process and promote greater ethical engagement among aspiring students, reduce excessive achievement pressure, and level the playing field for economically disadvantaged students. It is the first step in a two-year campaign that seeks to substantially reshape the existing college admissions process.
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    "Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions marks the first time in history that a broad coalition of college admissions offices have joined forces to collectively encourage high school students to focus on meaningful ethical and intellectual engagement. The report includes concrete recommendations to reshape the college admissions process and promote greater ethical engagement among aspiring students, reduce excessive achievement pressure, and level the playing field for economically disadvantaged students. It is the first step in a two-year campaign that seeks to substantially reshape the existing college admissions process. "
Jill Bergeron

Crafty Way to Inspire Little Coders | UKEdChat.com - Supporting the #UKEdChat Education... - 0 views

  • “Although I think it’s important to teach children how to make the most of these amazing machines, I’ve been concerned for a while that the focus on “coding” is driving everyone in front of screens and tablets, on their own. This potentially misses out some other important skills such as interpersonal communication, manual dexterity, creative imagination and maths. Children have amazing creative and imaginative skills, they’re like super powers at that age, and I wanted a way they could use them in learning about technology. So I made the Craft Computer to create a more physical and creative experience. One that not only demystified the world of computers but also reminded them how valuable art and creativity is to technology.”
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    Using crafts with younger students to inspire them to learn coding.
Gayle Cole

A Letter To Parents Of Digital Age Children - 0 views

  • Providing a rich and engaging environment for your children
  • Years later, I found out that they were visiting a questionable chat room where a stranger was vaguely threatening them.
  • seventeen-year-old son of a Pakistani immigrant had connected with a like-minded geek with whom he had begun sharing ideas for creating apps — and soon a business was launched.  His mystified father shook his head as he told this story. “I don’t know how he did that,” he said.
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  • we need to be active, trusting, and respectful participants in the digital lives of young people.
  • Our young people are still learning their way around the digital landscape largely on their own — when what we need to do is confidently take them by the hand, show them how to look both ways, and cross the street with them — at least at first. That means staying up-to-date about digital safety, the rules of the road, and what’s going on in the neighborhood. Finally, we need to foster the kinds of personal relationships that encourage our kids to talk about where they are going and what they discover along the way (their successes as well as their mistakes) once we let them travel on their own.
  • y, “Digital Generation: Parents,” is a good place to start.
  • read Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus (on social media
  • Jane McGonigal’s Reality Is Broken (on video games). If you want to try to keep up with the moving target of day-to-day digital parenting, I recommend Marti Weston’s information-packed, down-to-earth blog, Media! Tech! Parenting!
  • inspired by Adora Svitak,
  • Equally inspiring is nine-year-old Martha Payne, whose blog NeverSeconds, about the lunches served at her school in Scotland, sparked a national controversy about school nutrition that attracted the attention of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver
  • Some people call it a digital footprint, others a digital tattoo. As a parent, you are no doubt concerned about the possible missteps your children may take
  • the digital “brand” that will follow them for life.
  • although your children are already comfortable interacting online, they don’t yet necessarily know how to translate their skills into products that show them at their best
  • create “a portfolio of work that is both public and interactive, that reflects the potential of the online world and that serves as a solid foundation for a lifetime of participation online.”
  • Those of us in education need parents like you to be involved as active and open learners about the digital world, learners who can engage with us, their children and their children’s teachers, in much-needed conversations about digital matters.
Jill Bergeron

Wendy Hawkins: Let them be scientists | TED@Intel | TED Institute | Watch | TED.com - 0 views

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    "The key to inspiring children to pursue science can be found in the curious and inquisitive spirit we all tap into as we first discover the world. Wendy Hawkins demonstrates why we need to inject a more experimental approach into our science curriculum to ensure that we stay connected to the scientist in all of us."
Jill Bergeron

Youth Makerspace Playbook - 0 views

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    Our goal is to help guide and inspire you in crafting spaces that are reflections of everyone in your community, especially the youth who will be benefiting from them (throughout this book, "youth" refers to children of all ages). We hope these pages will be a catalyst for your explorations, internet searches, and further reading.
Jill Bergeron

Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admi... - 0 views

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    This article describes how Harvard GSE conducted a study among college admissions offices to determine what steps need to be taken in order to reduce personal achievement-oriented admissions procedures in order to focus more on service-learning, equity in admissions and empathy.
Jill Bergeron

The Tinkering Studio - 0 views

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    Maker inspiration from SF's Exploratorium
Jill Bergeron

Curiosity Machine - 1 views

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    STEM resource for inspiration, design, building and testing machines. This section is the FAQ, check out the rest of the site.
Jill Bergeron

Closing Out vs. Fading Out: 5 Steps for Ending the Year Strong | Edutopia - 0 views

  • If you're a teacher and not an instructional leader, you can initiate this important conversation, too.
  • make sure you acknowledge his or her specific strengths so that he or she can build on them
  • now is the time to give them complete ownership over their development so that it's meaningful for them and they're inspired to do it.
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  • clearing the path is about thinking through the details of the teachers' next steps and removing barriers so that they can visualize these steps happening and articulate how they'll happen.
  • a concrete plan to focus on as they think about next school year.
  • he or she should be the one leading the ideas for these next steps based on whatever meaningful focus areas you've identified together
  • it's too easy for the summer weeks to fly by until, all of a sudden, it's the first day back at school, and the teacher hasn't accomplished any of the summer plans that he or she intended to
  • Find out from the teachers you support what they appreciated about your support, what they wanted more of, and what they'd want to change.
  • it helps them identify what they need from a coach or evaluator, and it helps you get insight into how to better support your teachers next year.
  • closing the year strong with positive, actionable takeaways will ensure that teachers walk away feeling empowered, inspired, and ready to come back even stronger next year!
Jill Bergeron

Dam and Reservoir Career Day Display - Album on Imgur - 0 views

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    This is inspiration for a possible STEAM project, could be tied into an ancient history unit.
Jill Bergeron

MAKESHOP - 0 views

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    Pittsburgh Children's Museum Makerspace. The blog has lots of resources to inspire creativity.
Gayle Cole

Why Students Should Run Professional Development For Teachers - 0 views

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    Why Students Should Run Professional Development For Teachers http://t.co/ByuLghJG via @Edudemic @dmlresearchhub #edchat
Gayle Cole

SmartBlog on Education - Personal learning networks: Advice from the trenches - SmartBr... - 0 views

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