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Holly Barlaam

The Surfing Scientist - 70 views

www.abc.net.au/...surfingscientist

science science demos science labs lesson plans

shared by Holly Barlaam on 03 Dec 10 - Cached
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  • Gerald Carey on 03 Dec 10
     
    Lots of little science demonstrations
  • Holly Barlaam on 21 Dec 10
     
    Cool science info geared toward kids in the form of tricks, demos, and conundrums. Examples include,"Ever wondered what would happen to the sea level if all the icebergs in the ocean melted?" and elephant toothpaste.
Martin Burrett

Relaxing sounds - 5 views

relaxingnature.com/index.php

audio relax ambient sounds sounds

shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 Jul 11
     
    A site with four relaxing sound scapes from a forest, the sea, a rain storm and the sounds of the night. Perfect for setting a scene for writing or a warm down activity. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music,+Sound+&+Podcasts
Gerald Carey

MapMaker Interactive - National Geographic Education - 103 views

education.nationalgeographic.com/...interactive-map

interactive climate map National Geographic

shared by Gerald Carey on 15 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Gerald Carey on 15 Apr 11
     
    Very nice interactive illustrating things like sea surface temperatures, tectonic plates, human populations - for any part of the world (I'm from Australia and it even had us covered!)
Martin Burrett

Experiment testing Acidity of bodies of water near you - Year of Chemistry - 0 views

water.chemistry2011.org/...24

experiments science pH chemistry water

shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 Jun 11
     
    Take part in what is being called the biggest experiment ever. As part of the International Year of Chemistry, children from cross the world are measuring the pH of bodies of water in them. Collect real data to plot the effects of climate change on your seas, rivers and lakes. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Jenny Gough

BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | The Aral Sea tragedy - 3 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...678898.stm

Aral Sea Causes

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    • Jenny Gough
      Jenny Gough on 05 Jul 12
       
      Check this out!
Martin Burrett

The independence of independence by @SarahLWilliam11 - 4 views

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independence

shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Nov 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 Nov 18
     
    "Independent learning is something that has to be instilled in a student from the moment they interact with you. Independent learning affords them independence in everything that they do and will do. Some might think that if the above is promoted far too much then surely there will be no requirement for teachers? I suppose soon everyone will be taken over by robots and we will all grow gills and live under the sea! It is farcical to suggest that students don't need teachers. Without my teacher telling me how fabulous learning is and how getting an education will open so many doors for me, I wouldn't be where I am today. I am so proud of what I have achieved considering I was told I was 'not academic'."
Brandie Hayes

5 Ideas That Could Have Prevented Flooding in New York - Emily Badger - The Atlantic Ci... - 20 views

www.theatlanticcities.com/...3754

ideas flood prevention sea gates surge barriers elevated infrastructure wave attenuators oysters and sand development patterns

shared by Brandie Hayes on 30 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • mitigate
  • Wave Attenuators.
  • played a critical role in stabilizing the shoreline
  • Brandie Hayes on 30 Apr 13
     
    Article that describes 5 flood prevention ideas. Each idea includes a visual to aid in understanding (a video, photograph, map or visualization)
Bob Calder

Juicy Geography: Investigating sea level change with Google Earth - 96 views

www.juicygeography.co.uk/sealevel

geography google_tools resources

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  • Bob Calder on 16 Apr 12
     
    global warming activity using maps 
Brandy Worster

25 TED Talks Perfect For Classrooms | Edudemic - 163 views

edudemic.com/...d-talks-perfect-for-classrooms

shared by Brandy Worster on 30 May 12 - No Cached
  • entertaining as math gets.
    • Brandy Worster
      Brandy Worster on 30 May 12
       
      Maybe a good TED talk for Mrs. Lamkin or Mrs. Case???
  • beautiful world of bioluminescent sea animals and shows some examples.
  • important social issues.
    • Brandy Worster
      Brandy Worster on 30 May 12
       
      Possibly good TED before class debates? - Ms Worster
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  • raises the call for more aid to poverty-stricken Africa.
  • peaceful protests in the Palestinian conflict
  • Svitak says the world needs to think more like kids
Doris Pymble

Sea and Sky - Explore the Oceans Below and the Skies Above - 103 views

www.seasky.org

science astronomy marine resources

shared by Doris Pymble on 05 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Doris Pymble on 05 Feb 12
     
    Astronomy night is coming up soon, visit this great website for resources.
Enid Baines

Your Favorite: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels - 92 views

www.scoop.it/license-to-lit

scoop.it! books literature license to read english reading tweets #worstbookever

shared by Enid Baines on 28 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Author Responds to Student Begging for Summary of Required Read
  • I love that teachers and writers admit to not reading books that were assigned. I wouldn't have read "The Scarlet Letter" either if I wasn't the one who had to assign it.
  • Guessing Game: ‘The Lord of the Rings’ as Written by Other Famous Authors - Flavorwire
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  • Some writers have distinct stylistic fingerprints. Student writers, not so much.
  • "Frodo Baggins looked at the ring. The ring was round. It was a good ring. The hole at the heart of the ring was also round. The hole was clean and pure. ... The earth moved."
  • Kids Hate Classic Books Through Hilarious Tweets at #worstbookever « PWxyz
  • The old man and the sea, #worstbookever uuuggghhhh
  • heart of darkness please die #worstbookever#whatsisgoingon?
  • thank god for sparknotes #readingthecrucible#worstbookever
  • endless editing. Anyone who writes a lot understands this
Sara Stanley

"Make THE Difference" - 80 views

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Inspiration teamwork

shared by Sara Stanley on 14 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Stanley on 14 Aug 12
     
    TMB bank have launched a new brand vision "Make THE Difference" by making a film to inspire people to start thinking differently. With a hope that they will start to Make THE Difference to their own world. It doesn't have to be big, but a little can create positive changes. This film is based on a true story. In 1986 a football team that lived on a little island in the south of Thailand called "Koh Panyee". It's a floating village in the middle of the sea that has not an inch of soil. The kids here loved to watch football but had nowhere to play or practice. But they didn't let that stop them. They challenged the norm and have become a great inspiration for new generations on the island.
Jennie Snyder

Atul Gawande: How Do Good Ideas Spread? : The New Yorker - 36 views

www.newyorker.com/...130729fa_fact_gawande

Innovation

shared by Jennie Snyder on 01 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Why do some innovations spread so swiftly and others so slowly
  • Consider the very different trajectories of surgical anesthesia and antiseptics, both of which were discovered in the nineteenth century.
  • The first public demonstration of anesthesia was in 1846.
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  • nsisted that he had found a gas that could render patients insensible to the pain of surgery.
  • The idea spread like a contagion, travelling through letters, meetings, and periodicals. By mid-December, surgeons were administering ether to patients in Paris and London. By February, anesthesia had been used in almost all the capitals of Europe, and by June in most regions of the world.
  • On October 16, 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Morton administered his gas through an inhaler in the mouth of a young man undergoing the excision of a tumor in his jaw.
  • Four weeks later, on November 18th, Bigelow published his report on the discovery of “insensibility produced by inhalation” in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
  • There were forces of resistance, to be sure. Some people criticized anesthesia as a “needless luxury”; clergymen deplored its use to reduce pain during childbirth as a frustration of the Almighty’s designs.
  • Yet soon even the obstructors, “with a run, mounted behind—hurrahing and shouting with the best.” Within seven years, virtually every hospital in America and Britain had adopted the new discovery.
  • Sepsis—infection—was the other great scourge of surgery. It was the single biggest killer of surgical patients, claiming as many as half of those who underwent major operations
  • nfection was so prevalent that suppuration—the discharge of pus from a surgical wound—was thought to be a necessary part of healing.
  • In the eighteen-sixties, the Edinburgh surgeon Joseph Lister read a paper by Louis Pasteur laying out his evidence that spoiling and fermentation were the consequence of microorganisms. Lister became convinced that the same process accounted for wound sepsis.
  • Lister had read about the city of Carlisle’s success in using a small amount of carbolic acid to eliminate the odor of sewage, and reasoned that it was destroying germs. Maybe it could do the same in surgery.
  • During the next few years, he perfected ways to use carbolic acid for cleansing hands and wounds and destroying any germs that might enter the operating field.
  • The result was strikingly lower rates of sepsis and death.
  • Far from it.
  • Surgeons soaked their instruments in carbolic acid, but they continued to operate in black frock coats stiffened with the blood and viscera of previous operations—the badge of a busy practice.
  • hey reused sea sponges without sterilizing them.
  • It was a generation before Lister’s recommendations became routine and the next steps were taken toward the modern standard of asepsis—that is, entirely excluding germs from the surgical field, using heat-sterilized instruments and surgical teams clad in sterile gowns and gloves.
  • Maybe ideas that violate prior beliefs are harder to embrace. To nineteenth-century surgeons, germ theory seemed as illogica
  • The technical complexity might have been part of the difficulty. Giving Lister’s methods “a try” required painstaking attention to detail.
Tony Iannone

Moving Toward the Paperless Institute - National Writing Project - 16 views

www.nwp.org/...3092

paperless institute

shared by Tony Iannone on 28 Jul 10 - Cached
  • But in our 2007 summer institute, we facilitators wondered aloud, "What if these responses could be put online?" Within minutes, Eric ignited a sea of change in Red Clay by creating a way for fellows to answer these questions via an online survey tool. Now, instead of mad scribbling, happy goodbyes, and plans for beer that night, the sounds at the end of any day in the summer institute have become mad typing, happy goodbyes, and plans for beer that night."
  • Tony Iannone on 28 Jul 10
     
    This quote gets me thinking about ways that our own Writing Project is moving towards a paperless institute.
Martin Burrett

NGAkids SEA-SAWS interactive - 35 views

www.nga.gov/seasaws.htm

Art design recycling

shared by Martin Burrett on 12 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 12 Aug 11
     
    A fabulous art creator. Make designs from virtual scraps and recycled materials. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design
Abir Qasem

A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part 2 - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 56 views

chronicle.com/...126969

shared by Abir Qasem on 09 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Increasingly, students are buying an "experience" instead of earning an education, and, in the competition to attract customers, that's what's colleges are selling.
  • The common experience is that getting admitted is the most exhausting part. After that, the struggle mainly is financial. But at the major universities, most professors are too busy to care about individual students, and it is easy to become lost amid a sea of equally disenchanted undergraduates looking for some kind of purpose—and not finding it.
  • Academically Adrift ends on a depressing note: "A renewed commitment to improving undergraduate education is unlikely to occur without changes to the organizational cultures of colleges and universities." Institutions are inherently conservative; they do not change easily. Many leaps of faith are necessary, and the people involved—teachers, students, parents, administrators, lawmakers, and others—have so many fundamental disagreements about the purposes of higher education that it is hard to know where to begin the conversation. It's far easier to make cuts to an inherently broken system than to begin building something new.
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  • The student as consumer
  • Changing forms of literac
  • Declining academic engagement.
  • Alienation from professors
  • Expanding social and extracurricular commitments.
  • The escalating cost of education.
  • Students feeling disillusioned, bored, apathetic, scared, and trapped
  • Anxiety about future employment.
Kurt Schmidt

A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part 2 - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 43 views

chronicle.com/...126969

shared by Kurt Schmidt on 04 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • But, in the past few generations, the imagery and rhetoric of academic marketing have cultivated a belief that college will be, if not decadent, at least primarily recreational: social activities, sporting events, and travel.
  • Increasingly, students are buying an "experience" instead of earning an education, and, in the competition to attract customers, that's what's colleges are selling.
  • a growing percentage of students are arriving at college without ever having written a research paper, read a novel, or taken an essay examination. And those students do not perceive that they have missed something in their education; after all, they have top grades. In that context, the demands of professors for different kinds of work can seem bewildering and unreasonable, and students naturally gravitate to courses with more-familiar expectations.
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  • Students increasingly are pressured to go to college not because they want to learn (much less become prepared for the duties of citizenship), but because they and their parents believe—perhaps rightly—that not going will exclude them from middle-class jobs.
  • At most universities, a student is likely to be unknown to the professor and would expect to feel like a nuisance, a distraction from more important work.
  • As academic expectations have decreased, social programming and extracurricular activities have expanded to fill more than the available time. That is particularly the case for residential students, for whom the possibility of social isolation is a source of great anxiety.
  • College has become unaffordable for most people without substantial loans; essentially they are mortgaging their future in the expectation of greater earnings. In order to reduce borrowing, more and more students leave class early or arrive late or neglect assignments, because they are working to provide money for tuition or living expenses.
  • As students' anxiety about the future increases, no amount of special pleading for general-education courses on history, literature, or philosophy—really anything that is not obviously job-related—will convince most students that they should take those courses seriously.
  • But at the major universities, most professors are too busy to care about individual students, and it is easy to become lost amid a sea of equally disenchanted undergraduates looking for some kind of purpose—and not finding it.
  • we need to make "rigorous and high-quality educational experiences a moral imperative."
  • D. S. Koelling on 04 Apr 11
     
    ". . . we need to make 'rigorous and high-quality educational experiences a moral imperative.'"
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