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Beth Panitz

Keyboarding Games for Kids - Learning to Type Games for Kids | Learning Games For Kids - 187 views

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shared by Beth Panitz on 30 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Cara Whitehead on 30 Jan 11
     
    A great collection of keyboarding games for kids
  • Beth Panitz on 30 Jan 11
     
    Learning Games for Kids
Anna Otto

Keyboarding Guidelines - 77 views

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keyboarding guidelines onlinetesting cmas parcc

shared by Anna Otto on 21 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Anna Otto on 21 Nov 14
     
    Help prepare your students for online testing with these research-based keyboarding guidelines for kids.
Randolph Hollingsworth

National Center for Education Statistics, The Nation's Report Card: Writing 2011 - 2 views

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NAEP National Center for Education Statistics writing writing assessment transition computer-based assessment CBI college and career readiness

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 21 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 21 Sep 12
     
    Asa Spencer of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute writes in the Education Gadfly Weekly: "Traditionalists cringe, tech buffs rejoice: This latest NAEP writing assessment for grades eight and twelve marks the first computer-based appraisal (by the "nation's report card") of student proficiency in this subject. It evaluates students' writing skills (what NAEP calls both academic and workplace writing) based on three criteria: idea development, organization, and language facility and conventions. Results were predictably bad: Just twenty-four percent of eighth graders and 27 percent of twelfth graders scored proficient or above. Boys performed particularly poorly; half as many eighth-grade males reached proficiency as their female counterparts. The use of computers adds a level of complexity to these analyses: The software allows those being tested to use a thesaurus (which 29 percent of eighth graders exploited), text-to-speech software (71 percent of eighth graders used), spell check (three-quarters of twelfth graders), and kindred functions. It is unclear whether use of these crutches affected a student's "language facility" scores, though it sure seems likely. While this new mechanism for assessing kids' writing prowess makes it impossible to track trend data, one can make (disheartening) comparisons across subjects. About a third of eighth graders hit the NAEP proficiency benchmark in the latest science, math, and reading assessments, compared to a quarter for writing. So where to go from here? The report also notes that twelfth-grade students who write four to five pages a week score ten points higher than those who write just one page a week. Encouraging students to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) is a start."
Beth Panitz

Free Typing Games for Kids: Online Fun For All the Family - 78 views

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typing keyboarding free kids games

shared by Beth Panitz on 03 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Jonathan Wylie on 03 Feb 11
     
    If your looking for typing games for kids, online is the first place you should start looking. The internet has a myriad of options for you, but which ones are really worth your time?
  • Beth Panitz on 05 Feb 11
     
    List and links for typing games
Michael Garrity

Clawson Kids Learn - 67 views

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research Internetsafety keyboarding elementary interactive

shared by Michael Garrity on 24 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Michael Garrity on 24 Mar 12
     
    Three pages designed to provide elementary teachers resources for 1. Interactive Sites 2. Research & Internet Safety skills and 3. Keyboarding skills.
tom campbell

The Creativity Crisis - 62 views

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creativity

shared by tom campbell on 03 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Another is the lack of creativity development in our schools.
  • Researchers say creativity should be taken out of the art room and put into homeroom. The argument that we can’t teach creativity because kids already have too much to learn is a false trade-off. Creativity isn’t about freedom from concrete facts. Rather, fact-finding and deep research are vital stages in the creative process. Scholars argue that current curriculum standards can still be met, if taught in a different way.
  • A fine example of this emerged in January of this year, with release of a study by University of Western Ontario neuroscientist Daniel Ansari and Harvard’s Aaron Berkowitz, who studies music cognition. They put Dartmouth music majors and nonmusicians in an fMRI scanner, giving participants a one-handed fiber-optic keyboard to play melodies on. Sometimes melodies were rehearsed; other times they were creatively improvised. During improvisation, the highly trained music majors used their brains in a way the nonmusicians could not: they deactivated their right-temporoparietal junction. Normally, the r-TPJ reads incoming stimuli, sorting the stream for relevance. By turning that off, the musicians blocked out all distraction. They hit an extra gear of concentration, allowing them to work with the notes and create music spontaneously. Charles Limb of Johns Hopkins has found a similar pattern with jazz musicians, and Austrian researchers observed it with professional dancers visualizing an improvised dance. Ansari and Berkowitz now believe the same is true for orators, comedians, and athletes improvising in games.
  • tom campbell on 03 Dec 10
     
    bring on the improv!
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