Nathaniel Hawthorne's novels are pretty daunting fodder for the average English class, no matter how they're approached. But Diane Hamstra, a teacher at Park Tudor School, in Indianapolis, found a way to get her tenth-grade students to dive enthusiastically into the nineteenth-century moralist's dark thicket of language.
The author of two books, 12-year-old Adora Svitak published her first, Flying Fingers, at the age of seven. In addition, she has spoken at some of the nation's pre-eminent education conferences and taught students around the world via her video conferencing programs. Most recently, she spoke at the TED conference.
Wiki pages are always a work in progress. The wiki is like a dynamic online science classroom which continually grows and changes.
Applications for the use of Wikis in science classrooms is only limited by the creativeness of the teacher in support science teaching and student earning.
What is Wallwisher and why use it? Its a Web 2.0 application which allows students to express their thoughts or share information on a science concept.
Nova Southeastern University's Fischler School of Education and Human Services online publication Innovate has published its final volume. All previously published materials continue to be available below.
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The Kid Should See This.
There's just so much science, nature, music, arts, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen. It's most likely not stuff that was made for them...
But we don't underestimate kids around here.