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Martin Burrett

Robot Calculator - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 Feb 12
     
    A robot themed addition, subtraction, multiplication and division resource for young children. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Martin Burrett

HistoryWorld - 0 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 07 Mar 12
     
    A comprehensive history site with entries from all over the world and most big events since the big bang. Some content is not suitable for young children. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/History
Martin Burrett

A creative approach to teaching young children - 0 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 05 Feb 14
     
    An article by @emmaannhardy
Stephanie Sandifer

Esther Wojcicki: Revolution Needed for Teaching Literacy in a Digital Age - 28 views

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shared by Stephanie Sandifer on 07 Jul 10 - Cached
  • But one area of American life that is consistently resistant to innovation is our education system.
  • children who are below grade level by age ten tend to stagnate and eventually give up and drop out in high school. Harvard educational psychologist Jeanne Chall famously called this phenomenon the "fourth grade reading slump,
  • In the classroom, digital media also have other major advantages. These media teach students to master the production of knowledge, not just the consumption of knowledge. Kids learn to create videos, write blogs, collaborate online; the also learn to play video games, do digital storytelling, fan fiction, music, graphic art, anime and even more. Their informal process of learning, collaboration, and transforming passion into knowledge is desperately needed in schools today.
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  • to train teachers to help students learn to read by transforming information for discovery and problem-solving.
  • all beginning teachers learn how to use online collaborative tools, video production tools, blogging tools, mobile tools and a variety of commercial and non-profit programs targeting the classrooms. Frequently young teachers know how to use these tools on a personal level but not in the classroom.
  • Let's building on national models like Communities in Schools, First, Computer Clubhouse, Club Tech of the Boys and Girls Clubs, and the Quest to Learn, Digital Youth Network and School of One models in Chicago and New York City.It is time to extend the learning day and create a place in every community where young children can gain confidence in their literacy and interactive technology skills.
  • laboratories for testing many different digital approaches to learning and assessment, as well as for testing different ways to break down the barriers between in- and out-of-school learning
  • a hub for the professional development of digitally savvy teachers.
  • embrace the potential revolutionary power of the digital tools that have defined the first decade of the 21st century
  • Stephanie Sandifer on 07 Jul 10
     
    embrace the potential revolutionary power of the digital tools that have defined the first decade of the 21st century
Martin Burrett

nrich.maths.org :: Mathematics Enrichment - 2 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 07 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Judy Robison on 07 Mar 09
     
    The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice. More information on many of our other activities can be found here.
  • Martin Burrett on 19 Aug 11
     
    Nrich is a vast maths site with great interactive games and resources for young children right up to college mathematicians. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Martin Burrett

Kindergarten Worksheets - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 08 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 08 Aug 11
     
    A vast collection of fabulous cross curricular worksheets and resources for young children. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Early+Years
Martin Burrett

KidZui - The Internet for Kids - 0 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 12 Aug 11
     
    A simple, safe web browser for young children. They can save favourites, and have links to games and educational sites. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
Martin Burrett

Concrete Poetry - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 22 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 22 Sep 11
     
    This is a clever visual poetry tool for young children where you can draw an outline and place words inside. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Martin Burrett

Really simple link sharing - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 16 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 16 Sep 11
     
    A superb startpage of bookmarks designed for young children. Just enter your links and lock the page. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
raseorakesh

Toddlers Swim Lessons - 0 views

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  • raseorakesh on 19 Dec 23
     
    Toddlers swim lessons are appropriate for students, adults, and young children. This parent's handbook covers the advantages of signing up your child for infant swim classes. We'll tell you the benefits of using the Baby Otter program as an example.
Martin Burrett

Help Kidz Learn - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 06 Jan 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 06 Jan 12
     
    A nice site for younger children where you will find games, interactive stories, songs, virtual art creators and more. Free registration is required. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular
milesmorales

Homeschooling Tips That Will Really Help You Out - 0 views

Kids in public schools face many hurdles today, the bulk of which we never had to deal with when we were young. The best way to help your kids avoid these pitfalls is to homeschool them, and the he...

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Melissa Seifman

Education Outrage: Why do we still have schools? - 1 views

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shared by Melissa Seifman on 18 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Competition: Why should school be a competitive event?
  • We learn what we choose to know in real life.
  • Stress: When 6 year olds are stressed about going to school you know that something is wrong.
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  • Right answers: School teaches that there are right answers.
  • But, in real life, there are very few right answers.
  • Bullying and peer pressure
  • In school there are always other kids telling you how to dress, how to act, how to be cool.
  • Stifling of curiosity: Isn’t it obvious that learning is really about curiosity?
  • Adults earn about things they want to learn about. Before the age of 6, prior to school, one kid becomes a dinosaur specialist while another knows all about dog breeds. Outside of school people drive their own learning. Schools eliminate this natural behavior.
    • Tero Toivanen
      Tero Toivanen on 18 Apr 09
       
      Exactly!
  • Subjects chosen for you:
  • Classrooms:
  • Classrooms make no sense as a venue for learning unless of course you want to save money and have 30 (or worse hundreds of) students be handled by one teacher.
  • Schools cannot work as places of learning if they employ classrooms.
  • Grades: Any professor can tell you that students are pretty much concerned with whether what you are telling them will be on the test and what they might do for extra credit.
    • Melissa Seifman
      Melissa Seifman on 21 Apr 09
       
      I disagree - Employers do have rating systems, performance evaluations, but most of those are on the whole person, not just technical or academic skills
  • Parents do not give grades to children and employers do not give grades to employees. They judge their work and progress for sure, but not by assigning numbers to a report card.
  • Certification: We all know why people attend college. They do primarily to say they are college graduates so they can get a job or go on to a professional school.
    • Caroline Roche
      Caroline Roche on 20 Apr 09
       
      So, why is this the student's fault? Why blame, or disadvatage them for this? We should be fighting the system that causes students to work like this, not blaming them for doing it! it is the constant testing and league table system that is wrong.
  • Confined children: Children like to run around.
  • Of course in school, sitting still is the norm. So we have come up with this wonderful idea of ADD, i.e. drug those who won’t sit still into submission. Is the system sick or what?
  • Academics viewed as winners: Who are the smartest kids in school?
  • Those who are good at these subjects go on to be professors. So those are certainly the smartest people we have in our society.
  • But, I can tell you from personal experience that our society doesn’t respect professors all that much, so something is wrong here.
  • Practical skills not valued: When I was young there were academic high schools and trade high schools. Trade high schools were for dumb kids. Academic high schools were for smart kids.
  • The need to please teachers: People who succeed at school are invariably people who are good out at figuring what the teacher wants and giving it to them.
  • In real life there is no teacher to please and these “grade grubbers” often find themselves lost.
  • Self worth questioned: School is full of winners and losers.
  • In school, most everyone sees themselves as a loser. Why do we allow this to happen?
  • Politicians in charge: Politicians demand reform but they wouldn’t know reform if it hit them over the head.
  • Major learning by doing mechanism ignored: And last but not least, scholars from Plato to Dewey have pointed that people learn by doing. That is how we learn. Doing. Got it? Apparently not. Very little doing in schools. Unless you count filling in circles with number 2 pencils as doing.
  • Government use of education for repression: As long as there have been governments there have been governments who wanted people to think that the governments (and the country) is very good.
  • School is about teaching “truth.”
  • Discovery not valued: The most important things we learn we teach ourselves.
    • Tero Toivanen
      Tero Toivanen on 18 Apr 09
       
      Autotelic learning!
  • This kind of learning is not valued in school because it might lead to, heaven forbid, failure, and failure is a really bad word in school. Except failure is how we learn, which is pretty much why school doesn’t work.
    • Tero Toivanen
      Tero Toivanen on 18 Apr 09
       
      Exactly!
  • Boredom ignored: Boredom is a bad thing. We drug bored kids with Ritalin so they will stop being bored.
  • What they mean is that school should be like they remember rather than how it is now
    • Caroline Roche
      Caroline Roche on 20 Apr 09
       
      Not accepting students with straight A's only shows your own prejudices. Students can be good at a range of subjects, without being passionately interested in all of them. Lots of people are self motivated, without being teacher pleasers, they just wish to do their best in everything for their own satisfaction.
  • Caroline Roche on 20 Apr 09
     
    Why do we have schools? Instead of answering this question by listing all the good things that schools provide, which anyone can do, I will turn the question around: What is bad about having schools?
  • Melissa Seifman on 21 Apr 09
     
    Why do we have schools? Instead of answering this question by listing all the good things that schools provide, which anyone can do, I will turn the question around: What is bad about having schools?
Steve Ransom

Kidblog in Action! Classroom Q&A With Kindergarten Teacher Sharon Davison | Kidblog - 20 views

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  • I use a variety of technologies that help to engage, enhance, and inspire children to want to pursue their ideas. I have found that once you are inspired to learn, you learn how to learn through your ideas about what you understand.
  • Developing Relationships/Making Connections. I have used Kidblog prior to kindergarten even starting! I set up an account each year and email directions on “How To” blog with a rationale about why, etc. My new students and their families begin in the summer before they begin kindergarten! They post photographs of things they are doing. Then others who are new also to kindergarten begin to post comments on their posts and introduce themselves! A lot of blogging has happened BEFORE we even begin kindergarten and BEFORE we meet face to face! One year one of my kindergarten students wrote, “Only 2 more sleeps until kindergarten.” This is so great! It reflects a beginning of an understanding about how blogging is used to communicate and meet new friends in a safe way.
  • Kidblog hasn’t changed how I approach the writing process, but rather it has helped me to showcase and enhance the writing that my students are doing. Through blogging, my students experience the same things they experience when writing on paper. They use inventive print, leave spaces in between their words, use periods to end their thoughts, and of course they check their sentences for meaning. This is HUGE. Young children are beginning to re- read and reflect about what they understand and THEN they are able to make changes/edit.
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  • Through blogging my students have lots of opportunities to share what they are doing inside and outside of kindergarten. This is important because it is through our discoveries and explorations that we are able to share, connect and collaborate with others. Through these connections my students are motivated to blog and share what they are blogging about. Just by sharing their blog independently on our SMARTboard my students make connections about what they see and hear. They all want to share their blog posts! It is very empowering to read your ideas and share your work when you have a safe and kind environment to do so. The children support each other and their ideas. Kidblog has been wonderful for supporting and creating a positive classroom culture. I have never had a student not want to share their blog. How great is this? It helps build self-esteem too!
  • Steve Ransom on 01 Oct 12
     
    Wonderful examples and clarity of purpose that his teacher is able to communicate.
Joel Josephson

Kindersite Project - 3 views

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shared by Joel Josephson on 14 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Joel Josephson on 14 Dec 08
     
    For ALL preschool and Kindergarten age children and English learners. The Kindersite has 1,000s of links to the best games, songs and stories for young children.
buzzmic

At Age 10 She Was Titled 'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World'. Here's How She Looks L... - 0 views

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  • buzzmic on 12 Sep 18
     
    Would you be able to trust that Thylane Blondeau has been modeling since she was 4? Truly, you read that last proclamation effectively. When Thylane was ten years of age, she was already world famous and was highlighted in an issue of Vogue Paris. While that may appear a lot of strain to put on such a young child, there are additionally different concerns that should be tended to.
Martin Burrett

Daisy the Dinosaur - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 04 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Dec 12
     
    Get little ones interesting in basic programming by playing with Daisy the Dinosaur on this fun iPad app. Set a list of commands in free-play mode or complete challenges. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Brian Beierle

Bush, Obama focus on standardized testing leads to 'opt-out' parent movement - The Wash... - 0 views

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  • “Over the last couple of years, they’ve turned this one test into the all and everything,”
  • They argue that the exams cause stress for young children, narrow classroom curricula, and, in the worst scenarios, have led to cheating because of the stakes involved — teacher compensation and job security.
  • In some states, as much as half of a teacher’s job evaluation is now determined by student scores on standardized tests.
Julie Shy

Teach Your Monster to Read - 0 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 04 Oct 12
     
    This is an amazing, beautifully made and entertaining site for young children to learn phonic sounds. Design a monster and take it on an adventure around a magic area to find the letter sounds and fix a spaceship. The storyline is good and the activities are educational and motivational. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
  • Julie Shy on 31 Oct 12
     
    Teach your Monster to Read: First Steps is a new, free game to practise the first steps of reading. Combining top quality games design with essential learning, the game is built on the principles of synthetic phonics and follows the teaching sequence of the Letters and Sounds programme.
milesmorales

The Dry Erase Board: A Cool Tool For Learning - 0 views

The dry erase board or whiteboards as some know it has been a great help in providing knowledge to the youth today. It has many sizes to choose from and has always been the best tool for many mento...

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