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Martin Burrett

Bouncing Balls - 0 views

www.neave.com/bounce

classroom management art ict noise

shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Jun 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 Jun 11
     
    Want a new way of keeping your class quiet. Tell them not to make the balls bounce with this great resource. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Management+&+Rewards
Marcia Jeans

Bouncy Balls - Bounce balls with your mouse or microphone - 5 views

ictmagic.sharedby.co/texdW3

classroom management noise tools

shared by Marcia Jeans on 22 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Marcia Jeans on 22 Jan 13
     
    Essentially, Bouncy Balls is a website that activates your microphone and detects noise level. The more noise in the room, the more the balls bounce. The quieter the room is, the more still the balls remain. Although this tool has a number of applications outside of classroom management, I thought it was a fun, engaging way to monitor noise levels. Ask students to try to keep the balls as still as possible during class, and maybe reward them by allowing them to sing and be noisy on their way out of class 
Martin Burrett

Bouncy Balls - Bounce balls with your mouse or microphone - 106 views

neave.com/bouncy-balls

noise classroom management sound behaviour management behaviour

shared by Martin Burrett on 07 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 07 Jul 13
     
    Want a new way of keeping your class quiet? Tell them not to make the balls bounce with this great resource. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Management+%26+Rewards
Brandie Hayes

What are questions? by Jason Fried of 37signals - 43 views

37signals.com/...3225-what-are-questions

shared by Brandie Hayes on 22 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • “Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.”
  • “Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.”
    • Eric Nentrup
      Eric Nentrup on 22 Apr 13
       
      I really like this acknowledgement of the role questions play in our cognitive process. They aren't just the knowledge equivalent of a meal ticket...they're our dinner date!
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  • Questions are your mind’s receptors for answers. If you aren’t curious enough to want to know why, to want to ask questions, then you’re not making the room in your mind for answers. If you stop asking questions, your mind can’t grow.
  • Brandie Hayes on 24 Apr 13
     
    Interesting statement about the role of questionging in acquiring new infomation. Your mind has to ask the question in order for your brain to have a place to hold onto the information.....interesting perspective. 
  • deniseahlquist on 25 Apr 13
     
    I frequently say a similar thing when I talk about having students share their questions after a first reading. Their questions are such a great diagnostic of what they are ready to learn! Having students ask and answer their own questions not only gives them the info. they need now, but teaches them to be self-directed learners for a lifetime.
Martin Burrett

Thunks - Get Thunking - 149 views

www.thunks.co.uk

questions thinking skills philosophy

shared by Martin Burrett on 30 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 30 Mar 12
     
    This site has been a wonderful source of discussion ideas in my class, especially in philosophy sessions. This site has an archive going back to 2007 of over 1,000 fabulous question that will get your class (and you) thinking and discussing. You can even submit your own brain bouncing questions to the site. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
nicole lamoreaux

KneeBouncers | Free Toddler, Preschool, Educational Games and Fun - 53 views

www.kneebouncers.com

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shared by nicole lamoreaux on 09 Feb 10 - Cached
  • nicole lamoreaux on 09 Feb 10
     
    KneeBouncers is a whole lotta fun. Educational games, fun and activities to stimulate your baby or toddler and begin the learning process. Colorful animated graphics combined with great sound effects, excite and entertain babies and toddlers alike. Kneebouncers is educational. Your budding genius will start to understand the cause and effect principle, ABC's, numbers, colors, shapes, but mostly they'll just squeal with delight. So if you have a little one clamoring for the keyboard, plop them on your knee and let the bouncing (and learning) begin!
Martin Burrett

Jolls - 74 views

www.mathplayground.com/logic_jolls.html

logic games

shared by Martin Burrett on 19 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 19 Apr 12
     
    A fun logic game where players must roll and bounce balls to collect the same coloured tokens. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Educational+Games
Martin Burrett

Bouncy Balls - 30 views

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behaviour management volume

shared by Martin Burrett on 12 Nov 17 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 12 Nov 17
     
    "Want a new way to moderate the volume in your class? Tell them not to make the balls bounce with this great resource. There are new modes including bubbles, and emojis."
Martin Burrett

Pinball - Thinking tools - 76 views

www.bbc.co.uk/pinball

shared by Martin Burrett on 19 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Michelle Lynn on 19 Oct 10
     
    PINBALL is here to help you kick start new ideas, to get your thoughts flowing freely, and to develop your creative talents. Bounce your ideas around by using these fun and simple tools, and who knows what ideas might pop up.
  • Martin Burrett on 29 Oct 11
     
    A collection of BBC tools for students to organising thoughts, sparking ideas and planning ahead. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
sha towers

Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist - 27 views

www.economist.com/17723223

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shared by sha towers on 31 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • There is an oversupply of PhDs. Although a doctorate is designed as training for a job in academia, the number of PhD positions is unrelated to the number of job openings. Meanwhile, business leaders complain about shortages of high-level skills, suggesting PhDs are not teaching the right things. The fiercest critics compare research doctorates to Ponzi or pyramid schemes.
  • A graduate assistant at Yale might earn $20,000 a year for nine months of teaching. The average pay of full professors in America was $109,000 in 2009
  • America produced more than 100,000 doctoral degrees between 2005 and 2009. In the same period there were just 16,000 new professorships.
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  • PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the ugly underbelly of academia”, do much of the research these days.
  • In some areas five years as a postdoc is now a prerequisite for landing a secure full-time job.
  • About one-third of Austria’s PhD graduates take jobs unrelated to their degrees. In Germany 13% of all PhD graduates end up in lowly occupations. In the Netherlands the proportion is 21%.
  • In America only 57% of doctoral students will have a PhD ten years after their first date of enrolment. In the humanities, where most students pay for their own PhDs, the figure is 49%.
  • in 1966 only 23% of science and engineering PhDs in America were awarded to students born outside the country. By 2006 that proportion had increased to 48%. Foreign students tend to tolerate poorer working conditions, and the supply of cheap, brilliant, foreign labour also keeps wages down.
  • The earnings premium for a PhD is 26%. But the premium for a master’s degree, which can be accomplished in as little as one year, is almost as high, at 23%
  • PhDs in maths and computing, social sciences and languages earn no more than those with master’s degrees
  • the skills learned in the course of a PhD can be readily acquired through much shorter courses.
  • In one study of British PhD graduates, about a third admitted that they were doing their doctorate partly to go on being a student, or put off job hunting.
  • The more bright students stay at universities, the better it is for academics. Postgraduate students bring in grants and beef up their supervisors’ publication records.
  • Writing lab reports, giving academic presentations and conducting six-month literature reviews can be surprisingly unhelpful in a world where technical knowledge has to be assimilated quickly and presented simply to a wide audience.
  • Many of those who embark on a PhD are the smartest in their class and will have been the best at everything they have done. They will have amassed awards and prizes. As this year’s new crop of graduate students bounce into their research, few will be willing to accept that the system they are entering could be designed for the benefit of others, that even hard work and brilliance may well not be enough to succeed, and that they would be better off doing something else.
  • sha towers on 13 Apr 11
     
    article from the Economist "The Disposable Academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
Justin Medved

What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com - 97 views

www.nytimes.com/...ret-to-success-is-failure.html

learning

shared by Justin Medved on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • As Levin watched the progress of those KIPP alumni, he noticed something curious: the students who persisted in college were not necessarily the ones who had excelled academically at KIPP; they were the ones with exceptional character strengths, like optimism and persistence and social intelligence.
  • They were the ones who were able to recover from a bad grade and resolve to do better next time; to bounce back from a fight with their parents; to resist the urge to go out to the movies and stay home and study instead; to persuade professors to give them extra help after class.
  • Patrick Higgins on 22 Sep 11
     
    I shared this article with several of my colleagues. I find it really interesting that someone in charge of such an elite private school that falls under such parent scrutiny has embraced this philosophy.
Gerald Carey

Videos: Gelatin Cubes Bouncing and Popcorn Popping - 139 views

www.sciencenewsblog.com/...430112

Science videos

shared by Gerald Carey on 01 May 11 - No Cached
  • Gerald Carey on 01 May 11
     
    Slow motion! Amazing.
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