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Martin Burrett

Kideos.com - Safe Videos for Children - 39 views

www.kideos.com

education YouTube video

shared by Martin Burrett on 15 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Melissa Smith on 15 Nov 09
     
    Videos for kids - many pulled through You Tube. Categorized by age 0-2, 3-4, 5-6. 7-8, and 9-10
  • Melissa Smith on 15 Nov 09
     
    Videos for kids - many pulled through You Tube. Categorized by age 0-2, 3-4, 5-6. 7-8, and 9-10
  • Martin Burrett on 31 Jul 11
     
    Watch vetted videos for children in your class. A good selection of topics and age based material. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video,+animation,+film+&+Webcams
Frances DiDavide

Smories - new stories for children, read by children - 64 views

www.smories.com

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shared by Frances DiDavide on 07 May 10 - Cached
  • studybooking on 20 Nov 14
     
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Joseph Alvarado

Computer Service for Children with Autism | TeachTown, Inc. Engage. Learn. Connect.™ - 1 views

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shared by Joseph Alvarado on 10 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Joseph Alvarado on 10 Dec 09
     
    TeachTown: Basics is a research based solution for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other special needs. The service brings together parents, clinicians, teachers and students in one comprehensive package. Subscription includes on-computer lessons, off-computer generalization activities, data tracking and communications tools that keep the whole team connected.
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

educationoutrage.blogspot.com/...-do-we-still-have-schools.html

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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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shared by Steve Ransom on 01 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • 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

www.kindersite.org/

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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.
Martin Burrett

Free Online Educational Games for Kids| Teaching kids with games| Math Puzzle & More. - 53 views

www.gudli.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 11 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Frances DiDavide on 13 Jun 11
     
    Lots of games for PreK - 1st grade.
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Jul 11
     
    Gudli is a wonderful site packed with games and activities for young children, including maths and literacy resources. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Early+Years
Martin Burrett

Sketch Star - Create Animation - 0 views

www.miniclip.com/...create

drawing art animation animator cartoon

shared by Martin Burrett on 16 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 16 Nov 12
     
    This is a great online animation tool designed for children. It has a great set of tools, including clipart, text tools and 'puppet' images with movable limbs and changeable heads. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams
Martin Burrett

Triangles - 0 views

www.e-beam.com/...triangle.swf

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shared by Martin Burrett on 06 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 06 Nov 12
     
    A great resource for showing children angles inside a triangle. Move the corners to see how the angles change for different types of triangles. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Martin Burrett

ClassBadges - 0 views

classbadges.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 06 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 06 Nov 12
     
    Keep your class motivated with this is behaviour management tool where teachers can award virtual badges for anything. Choose from a large collection of badge designs. The children can see their progress with their own personal login. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Management+%26+Rewards
Justin Reeve

Before-and-After Portraits of Alternative Education Students Decades Later - 0 views

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shared by Justin Reeve on 10 May 13 - No Cached
  • Justin Reeve on 10 May 13
     
    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.
Cara Whitehead

Summer Program - 0 views

www.spellingcity.com/summer.html

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shared by Cara Whitehead on 12 May 13 - No Cached
  • Cara Whitehead on 12 May 13
     
    VocabularySpellingCity has a new summer word study program that allows children to sharpen academic skills as they play. These simple assignments are a daily workout for the brain, building literacy skills such as vocabulary, spelling, and writing.
Martin Burrett

Class Charts - 0 views

www.classcharts.com

behaviour management behaviour

shared by Martin Burrett on 13 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 13 Feb 13
     
    This is a superb classroom management tool where you can track the behaviour of your class and keep them motivated. Simply click on the child and assign them a positive or negative behaviour point. You can also track their reading and spelling ages and make your own customised data set. Use this information to help you arrange the children within your class. You can have multiple classes on your teacher's account and you can share data with colleagues using different accounts. The data is encrypted to ensure data security. The system works on the majority of web enabled devices. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Management+%26+Rewards
tom campbell

Site of the Week | Great Websites for Kids - 0 views

gws.ala.org

resources ala reference library

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  • tom campbell on 12 Feb 13
     
    Sponsored by the ASSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY SERVICE TO CHILDREN A well curated collection: sections on animals. the arts. history and biography, literature and languages, math and computers, ref desk, sciences and social sciences.
Martin Burrett

Engage - 0 views

www.readengage.com

news current affairs citizenship

shared by Martin Burrett on 09 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 09 Nov 12
     
    This is an Australian website with current affairs news articles written for children. There is a good archive of past editions to browse through. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
Dwayne Abrahams

Research - 17 views

www.footsteps2brilliance.com

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shared by Dwayne Abrahams on 30 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Dwayne Abrahams on 30 Oct 12
     
    "Footsteps2Brilliance, Inc.™'s Academic Language Program for Students (ALPS) delivers a robust library of stimulating ebooks and educational games to parents, children and teachers anywhere/anytime through innovative mobile gaming technology. Developed by educational experts usingthe latest research on cognitive development, ALPS provides young learners with 1,000 essential vocabulary words through interactive eBooks that are sure to engage today's digital students whether at school or home."
Martin Burrett

Build with Chrome - 0 views

www.buildwithchrome.com/...map

build 3D design maps

shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Oct 12
     
    I don't often talk about it, but I own a little house in Sydney bay. It's not much, but I'm proud of it. The problem is that it is only virtual and made out of Lego. This wonderful site allows you to design houses, or anything else, with virtual Lego on a virtual plot in Australia or New Zealand. It's like a simplified version of SketchUp, great for younger children. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Nigel Coutts

Moving past the days of the old school yard - The Learner's Way - 9 views

thelearnersway.net/...he-days-of-the-old-school-yard

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 04 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 04 Sep 16
     
    Society confronts educational change in an odd, entirely counter intuitive manner. On one hand we acknowledge that education can and should do a better job of preparing our children for the future while on the other we cling to the models of education that we knew. This led educational writer Will Richardson to state that 'the biggest barrier to rethinking schooling in response to the changing worldscape is our own experience in schools'. Our understandings of what school should be like and our imaginings of what school could be like are so clouded by this experience that even the best evidence for change is overlooked or mistrusted.
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