Wow! A simply stunning, fast loading, space 3D simulation of the solar system. Fly between the plants and look at them close up.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Wow...hate distracting ads when you're trying to read? This website allows you to read just the text. You pick the size, then drag the icon to your browser's toolbar. Nice.
Wow, this is a PRACTICAL guide to info literacy, from step by step on how to read a website, to how students report the info. FULL of information I can use in my classroom without having to reinvent the wheel myself!
Elevate yourself above the competition by building your personal brand and establishing a remarkable online presence that wows employers when they pre-screen you in Google.
Some years ago I taught a life skills class to a group of eighth grade boys. The curriculum I offered wasn't working. They were disengaged -- they wouldn't read, write, or talk about what I wanted them to talk about -- and they were mounting a rebellion.
An amazing resource which shows the relative scales of things in the universe and guaranteed to make you feel insignificant. But wow it's good.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
"There's no word for accountability in Finnish," he later told an audience
at the Teachers College of Columbia University. "Accountability is something
that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."
Wow did this ever strike a chord! Give us more responsibility, and let us show what we can do. When you reduce it to "accountability" you've taken away our power.
The problem facing education in America isn't the ethnic diversity of the population but the economic inequality of society, and this is precisely the problem that Finnish education reform addressed. More equity at home might just be what America needs to be more competitive abroad
Finland's experience shows that it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity
Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the
goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success
today, was never excellence. It was equity.
Real winners do not compete
cooperation
instrument to even out social inequality
Finland offers all pupils free school meals, easy access to health
care, psychological counseling, and individualized student guidance
“It is extremely dispiriting to realize that you are in effect lying to these kids by insinuating that this diet of corporate reading programs and standardized tests are preparing them for anything,”
Why I'll NEVER go back to teaching Middle School English...
The truly educated become conscious. They become self-aware. They do not lie to themselves. They do not pretend that fraud is moral or that corporate greed is good. They do not claim that the demands of the marketplace can morally justify the hunger of children or denial of medical care to the sick. They do not throw 6 million families from their homes as the cost of doing business.
“Not only have the reformers removed poverty as a factor, they’ve removed students’ aptitude and motivation as factors,”
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