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Amy Roediger

Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves | MIT Technology Review - 3 views

www.technologyreview.com/...pian-children-teach-themselves

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  • The idea of dropping off tablets outside of the context of schools is a new paradigm for OLPC.
  • iving computers directly to poor kids without any instruction is even more ambitious than OLPC’s earlier pushes. “
  • Melissa St. Laurent on 01 Nov 12
     
    A bold experiment by the One Laptop Per Child organization has shown "encouraging" results.
  • Amy Roediger on 24 Nov 12
     
    A cool article!
Daryl Bambic

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 28 views

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education teaching learning pedagogy alternative

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  • To them, knowledge isn’t a commodity that’s delivered from teacher to student but something that emerges from the students’ own curiosity-fueled exploration.
  • eachers provide prompts
  • they step aside so students can teach themselves and one another.
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  • Potential.”
  • “So,” Juárez Correa said, “what do you want to learn?”
  • “If you put a computer in front of children and remove all other adult restrictions, they will self-organize around it,” Mitra says, “like bees around a flower.”
  • There will be no teachers, curriculum, or separation into age groups—just six or so computers and a woman to look after the kids’ safety. His defining principle: “The children are completely in charge.”
  • Theorists from Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi to Jean Piaget and Maria Montessori have argued that students should learn by playing and following their curiosity.
  • Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin similarly claim that their Montessori schooling imbued them with a spirit of independence and creativity.
  • The study found that when the subjects controlled their own observations, they exhibited more coordination between the hippocampus and other parts of the brain involved in learning and posted a 23 percent improvement in their ability to remember objects.
  • if you’re not the one who’s controlling your learning, you’re not going to learn as well
Marc Patton

Smart Apps For Kids - 13 views

www.smartappsforkids.com

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shared by Marc Patton on 02 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Marc Patton on 07 May 14
     
    Mom approved apps for your children and students
Steven Young

Demography and the Future of Secularism - Boston.com - 1 views

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demography religion religious fundamentalism secularism

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    • Steven Young
      Steven Young on 25 May 12
       
      The American Enterprise Institute is one of the leading conservative think tanks. The AEI, and the conservative movement in general, have an interest in a more religious population, since religious voters are more likely to vote Republican and for conservative parties elsewhere in the world. Therefore, one needs to skeptical of research emanating from a think tank with a strong ideological bias; especially when that research serves the interests of the institution.
  • Across the world, "population change is reversing secularism and shifting the center of gravity of entire societies in a conservative religious direction." The same will be true here in the United States, where religious families have more children than non-religious ones.
  • It's easy to underestimate the role that population change can have in social change, Kaufmann says, but it can have a huge role, especially when differences in values drive differences in fertility
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  • -- demographer
  • Americans and Europeans
  • Americans and European
  • the fringe of ultra-Orthodox pupils in Israel's Jewish primary schools in 1960 has ballooned: they now comprise a third of the Jewish first grade class. They are gaining power: in Jerusalem, Haredim rioted in late December, demanding the right to segregate women on buses, and have already elected the city's first Haredi mayor.
  • the ultra-Orthodox may form a majority of observant American and British Jews by 2050
  • In the United States, Republicans have a similar values-driven fertility advantage -- an advantage, Kaufmann argues, which will outweigh the Democratic advantage of increased immigration, in part because many immigrants are conservative on social issues and maximalist in their family planning.
  • "In Seattle, there are nearly 45 percent more dogs than children. In Salt Lake City, there are nearly 19 percent more kids than dogs.”
  • Steven Young on 25 May 12
     
    Summary of article from the American Enterprise Institute journal, "The American", that claims that future of the U.S. is more religious than secular due to the large family size of religious fundamentalists.
jasonsanderson

the importance of "talking math" to kids - jasons@sylvan.k12.ca.us - Sylvan Union Schoo... - 44 views

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  • jasonsanderson on 14 Jan 14
     
    Many parents know the importance of talking and reading to their children to develop vocabulary and literacy skills, but what about math?
Jon Tanner

Here's What A Constantly Plugged-In Life Is Doing To Kids' Bodies - 118 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...eens-on-screens_n_4101758.html

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  • Jon Tanner on 06 Nov 13
     
    Health problems caused by children and teens using screens: Obesity, joint pain, cardiovascular damage, depression, lack of concentration, back and neck pain, and hearing loss. Solutions and explanations are provided
Deborah Baillesderr

Youngzine | News and more for the Young - 40 views

www.youngzine.org

news current events socialstudies kids articles

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  • Deborah Baillesderr on 29 Apr 15
     
    Great news site for children.
anonymous

Zoodles - 71 views

www.zoodles.com

zoodles kids browser resources

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  • anonymous on 21 May 10
     
    Web browser for children 8 and younger
Denise Duffy

Teaching Kids To Think Using Scratch | dotSUB - 124 views

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  • Denise Duffy on 11 Feb 11
     
    Scratch is a simple yet powerful programming language for children that is very easy to use yet contains many of the important programming constructs found in more "grown up" languages. This presentation looks at some of the key ideas behind programming in Scratch.
Martin Burrett

KidZui - The Internet for Kids - 55 views

www.kidzui.com

browser Internet e-safety

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  • Martin Burrett on 12 Aug 11
     
    A simple, safe web browser for young children. They can save favourites, and have links to games and educational sites. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
Steve Ransom

ASCD Express 6.26 - Media Use Among U.S. Children: Where Are the Books? - 2 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 30 Sep 11
     
    "white youth consume an average of 8.5 hours of media content and black, Hispanic, and Asian youth each consume about 13 hours...But when asked how much time they spent using computers for schoolwork, the rates ranged from 16 to 20 minutes a day, according to the study."
Martin Burrett

DinoPass - Simple password generator for kids - 46 views

www.dinopass.com

password ict computing

shared by Martin Burrett on 06 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 06 Sep 11
     
    A superb site which I have been using to generate child friendly passwords for children at my school. It uses a huge word bank and you can choose from two difficulty levels. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Martin Burrett

Mingoville.com - English for Kids - 49 views

www.mingoville.com/en.html

English Primary 3d games Literacy

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  • Sandy Munnell on 04 May 10
     
    "exercises, songs, and games."
  • Martin Burrett on 12 Aug 11
     
    A superb virtual world for children for learning English. Move your flamingo around completing games and missions. Basic account is free. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Deborah Baillesderr

Special Education Apps | Best iPad Apps for Kids | Educational iPad Apps - A4CWSN.com - 121 views

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apps iPad special education kids

shared by Deborah Baillesderr on 04 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Jill Baedke on 04 Apr 13
     
    Apps for children with special needs
  • Deborah Baillesderr on 07 May 14
     
    A great variety of iPad apps specifically collected for students with learning differences. All of the ones I've checked out so far are free or under a dollar.
meldar

K I D S I N C O Free Playscripts for Kids! - why use playscripts in school or in the cl... - 103 views

www.kidsinco.com/about

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shared by meldar on 14 May 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 14 May 12
     
    A great collection of play scripts for children. Browse 100s of plays on a range on topics. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Roland Gesthuizen

All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed - Esther Entin - The At... - 60 views

www.theatlantic.com/...246422

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 05 Oct 13
     
    "For more than fifty years, children's free play time has been continually declining, and it's keeping them from turning into confident adults"
anonymous

Shift to the Future: What Kids Say About Blogging - 6 views

www.shift2future.com/...t-kids-say-about-blogging.html

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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      Writing becomes authentic and important because it is something that a 'real' audience is going to see!
  • The cool thing about this is that family members can far more easily be involved in her learning and in providing regular feedback than they could be if her writing was only contained in the traditional paper journal.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      What an easy way to have parental involvement!  This would solve some of that issue of parents not knowing what their children are doing at school or what is going on when the child gets older and more close-lipped.
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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      Don't we ALL benefit from somebody interacting with us and commenting on our thinking?
  • Grandparents and other relatives rarely have an opportunity to observe or see what their grandchildren are doing in school. The student blogs also allows them to be a part of our classroom community.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      What a wonderful way to connect to folks who are outside the realm of the classroom but still have an interest and care about the student!  :)
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      Looked at this class blog.  Wouldn't this be a wonderful exercise?  The teacher could blog, the students could blog on personal level but also have a class blog which is a place for inspiration for writing exercises (thinking like a language arts/writing/reading teacher here) when students don't have their own inspiration/focus for creative writing.   This blog would also be a great place to steal ideas!  :)
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      When I visit with teachers and suggest they have students create a web site or blog as an educational tool, often the teacher will tell me he/she doesn't have time to read/monitor that.  However, most teachers have students complete writing assignments and turn them in for a grade - lab reports, essays, reports, etc.  So, wouldn't this also be a way for students to create such assignments?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      This article shows the versatility of the 3rd grade students' blogs - one reported on planet studied, one on animal, etc.  So, it wouldn't have to just be a place for creative writing/online writer's notebook!
Ed Webb

New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development - MacArthur Foundation - 0 views

www.macfound.org/...rtant_for_Teen_Development.htm

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  • “Kids learn on the Internet in a self-directed way, by looking around for information they are interested in, or connecting with others who can help them. This is a big departure from how they are asked to learn in most schools, where the teacher is the expert and there is a fixed set of content to master.”
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 09 Mar 09
       
      Now, if we can just get educational institutions and the relevant standards-setters - governmental and otherwise - to adapt to this stronger model of learning...
  • new challenges in how to manage their visibility and social relationships online
  • Online media, messages, and profiles that young people post can travel beyond expected audiences and are often difficult to eradicate after the fact
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  • parents and their children came together around gaming or shared digital media projects, where both kids and adults brought expertise to the table.
  • an effort to inject grounded research into the conversation about the future of learning in a digital world.
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