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Mozart's music and baroque music, with a 60 beats per minute beat pattern, activate the left and right brain. The simultaneous left and right brain action maximizes learning and retention of information. The information being studied activates the left brain while the music activates the right brain. Also, activities which engage both sides of the brain at the same time, such as playing an instrument or singing, causes the brain to be more capable of processing information.

digital nation: learning: schools: how google saved a school | PBS

In the classrooms of the future, students will use their phone as a computer and instead of raising their hand to ask a question, they'll simply send the teacher a tweet. Imogen Neale reports. Some schools demand students leave their digital devices at home, but Albany Senior High School, north of Auckland, has taken the opposite approach, BYOD. "That means, Bring Your Own Device," explains deputy principal Mark Osborne.

Who wants EVERY Friday off? I DO, I DO… or do I? Schools around the country are considering the four-day work week to deal with extreme budget cuts. With a shorter week, these schools can save thousands of dollars a year on busing costs and building utilities.

"The trickiest of the cracks to get our heads around is the "connected divide," separating those who are proficient in collaborative, creative and connected social networks and those who are not. It is growing exponentially wider on a daily basis. ... [C]onnectedness will define the value of education over the next generation" (¶7, 2011.07.27).

"Creating a Facebook page for your school or college isn't as simple as it is when you're just creating a personal page. There are several pitfalls that I came across when doing so that Facebook simply hasn't addressed, and the administration process involved in adding schools on Facebook is more complex than a normal profile."

"Learn how to stay ahead of malware, viruses and emerging threats while battling reduced budgets and resources. Attend this session to hear experts discuss the trends that will impact network security and child safety-Web 3.0, cloud computing and outsourcing-and how you can prepare for the future. Plus, technologists from top school districts including Duval County Schools and Denver Public Schools reveal how they successfully guard their students and networks from Internet-based threats. "

Join edSocialMedia for "WordPress 101: A Starters Guide for Schools" with Bill Stites, a free one hour webinar showcasing the technical steps that you need to take to get Wordpress up & running at your school.

"As school districts explore the use of social computing throughout the school day and as an approach to extend instruction; many educators are making the decision to create a wiki, publish video online, or to participate in blogging, social networking or virtual worlds. Social media guidelines encourage educators to participate in social computing and strive to create an atmosphere of trust and individual accountability. Teachers who must hide their online activity because of nonexistent social media guidelines risk losing their jobs and reputations. A better approach is to collaboratively develop a policy that is acceptable to administrators, school board members, teachers and parents allowing for involvement in the global conversation in which many are contributing."

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Primary students of The Ummed School celebrating Red Day in School. In this they are taught about the concept of Red Colour and its importance. Through these types activities we engage students and make learning a fun activity.

The Ummed School Jodhpur is an educational thought of Shri Ummed Singh Champawat of The Ummed Group. The school has a sprawling campus with hi-end infrastructure, and aims to provide holistic education with world class infrastructure.

Mussoorie International School is one of the Top Boarding Schools in India. In our School 500 STUDENTS, 100 TEACHERS, 50 CLASSES, 15 LABS. Our vision is to provide a platform for every individual to explore her hidden talent in the desired field. We have all facilities for to students learn and enjoy practical skills like a swimming pool, laboratory, library, Dormitory.

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ALPHA stands for "A Lot of Par­ents Hop­ing for an Alter­na­tive." The school was unique in the Toronto public school system due to the fact that it had no homework, no grades, and no tests. One of the main ideas the school was based on is that children do much of their learning by playing. Thus, students were allowed to explore their own interest, learning what they wanted to, and making or doing things they found interesting.

Read the article and replace the word company with school or district. Betcha we could launch some rich, forward thinking conversations. Thus far, school systems seem to have taken all the worst things from business models. Maybe this article might allow us to think about how to build schools that support personal learning strategies.

For schools the concept of a learning organisation should make perfect sense, after all learning is our core business, or it should be. Perhaps that almost three decades after Peter Senge identified the importance of learning within organisations the idea is only now gaining traction in schools tells us something about the approach taken to learning and teaching within schools. With an increased focus on the development of professional learning communities as a response to the complex challenges that emerge from a rapidly changing society, it is worth looking at what a learning organisation requires for success.

"Cyber Savvy is a student-led, positive norms approach to teach upper intermediate, middle, and high school students (grades 5 - 12) about digital safety, including effective digital decision-making, safe posting of personal information, digital relationships, social networking, cyberbullying, and digital dating/exploitation. The schools that have used this program in the pilot testing have been very pleased with the results. "

Vani Vidyalaya Senior Secondary & Junior College, CBSE School is having excellent higher sec faculty & well trained teachers for educating student successive features.