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Martin Burrett

Cut the Rope - 103 views

www.cuttherope.ie

game strategy logic problem solving

shared by Martin Burrett on 02 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 02 Apr 12
     
    A fun strategy game where players must cut ropes to feed the little creature. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Educational+Games
A Gardner

Education Rethink: Super Mario Gets His Value Added Score - 56 views

www.educationrethink.com/...ets-his-value-added-score.html

satire teachereval valueadded

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  • A Gardner on 18 May 12
     
    A little too true
Brad McDiarmid

10 Surprising Ways to Spot a Great Video Game | Common Sense Media - 1 views

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Great Video Games media

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  • Brad McDiarmid on 28 Jun 12
     
    What your kids look for in a snack might be different than what you look for as a parent. While they focus on taste, you focus on nutrition. Same goes for games. Glitzy, big-name games can be enticing, just like junk food. Some are flashy and addictive but do little to feed kids' curiosity or help them develop.
Peter Beens

Raising the Ritalin Generation - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...ng-the-ritalin-generation.html

education medical medication Ritalin NYTimes

shared by Peter Beens on 19 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • teachers fill out short behavior questionnaires, called Conners rating scales, which assess things like “squirminess” on a scale of one to five. In many cases, I discovered, diagnoses hinge on the teachers’ responses.
  • the formidable list of possible side effects included difficulty sleeping, dizziness, vomiting, loss of appetite, diarrhea, headache, numbness, irregular heartbeat, difficulty breathing, fever, hives, seizures, agitation, motor or verbal tics and depression. It can slow a child’s growth or weight gain. Most disturbing, it can cause sudden death, especially in children with heart defects or serious heart problems.
  • Peter Beens on 19 Aug 12
     
    "I REMEMBER the moment my son's teacher told us, "Just a little medication could really turn things around for Will." We stared at her as if she were speaking Greek. "Are you talking about Ritalin?" my husband asked."...
Mark Gleeson

Learning In Burlington: Why School? Will Richardson Leads Us Towards Answers To This Cr... - 0 views

www.patrickmlarkin.com/...-will-richardson-leads-us.html

learning

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  • Mark Gleeson on 18 Sep 12
     
    Will presents straightforward questions that we can present to parents and other stakeholders to help us make this much needed shift.  We need to help parents and community members engage in a narrative that will help them see clearly that the test scores that our country's education reform movement are focused upon "tell us little if anything about our children's chances for future success."
Martin Burrett

Portable North Pole - Personalized video message from Santa - 82 views

www.portablenorthpole.tv/home

Christmas Santa Video

shared by Martin Burrett on 16 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 16 Dec 11
     
    'Ask' Santa to send someone a message by filling in lots and lots details on this clever little site. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Winter+%26+Christmas
Martin Burrett

Gift Stack - 68 views

akidsheart.com/...giftstack.swf

Christmas games

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  • Martin Burrett on 16 Dec 11
     
    Play this fun stacking game. Each Christmas present you stack moves a little faster. How high can you stack them?
Steve Ransom

Wikipedia:FAQ/Schools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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wikipedia about tips howto students teachers

shared by Steve Ransom on 06 Dec 11 - Cached
  • Students should never use information in Wikipedia (or any other online encyclopedia) for formal purposes (such as school essays) until they have verified and evaluated the information based on external sources. For this reason, Wikipedia, like any encyclopedia, is a great starting place for research but not always a great ending place.
  • It is possible for a given Wikipedia article to be biased, outdated, or factually incorrect. This is true of any resource. One should always double-check the accuracy of important facts, regardless of the source. In general, popular Wikipedia articles are more accurate than ones that receive little traffic, because they are read more often and therefore any errors are corrected in a more timely fashion. Wikipedia articles may also suffer from issues such as Western bias, but hopefully this will also improve with time. For more information
  • Although the majority of edits attempt to improve the encyclopedia, vandalism is frequent.
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  • If an anonymous or relatively new user changes a statistic or date by even a little bit, without justifying their edit, they are particularly likely to raise a red flag. If an individual continues to vandalize after being warned, then they may even be blocked from further editing.
  • keeps a full history of every change to every article
  • It is for this reason that readers must be particularly diligent in verifying Wikipedia against its external sources, as discussed above. It is also a good idea, if you feel uncomfortable about an article, to check its history for recent "bad-faith" edits. If you find a piece of uncorrected vandalism, you might even decide to help future users by correcting it yourself. That's a great feature of Wikipedia.
  • Wikipedia can be an excellent starting place for further research.
  • Students can compare information in Wikipedia with information in other encyclopedias or books in the library. As a general rule, contributors to Wikipedia are encouraged to cite their sources, but, of course, not all do. For the sake of verifiability, it is advisable to cite an article that has listed its sources. Most of our better articles have sections such as "References," "Sources," "Notes," "Further reading," or "External links," which generally contain such information.
  • The 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools is a selection of 5,500 articles deemed suitable for school children and has been checked and edited for this audience and protected against editing or vandalism. It contains about the equivalent content to a 20 volume encyclopaedia organized around school curriculum subjects, and is available online and as a free download for use by schools.
  • Educators can use Wikipedia as a way of teaching students to develop hierarchies of credibility that are essential for navigating and conducting research on the Internet.
  • Wikipedia's objective is to become a compendium of published knowledge about notable subjects.
Kate Pok

Idaho Teachers Fight a Reliance on Computers - NYTimes.com - 32 views

www.nytimes.com/...t-a-reliance-on-computers.html

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  • Last year, the state legislature overwhelmingly passed a law that requires all high school students to take some online classes to graduate, and that the students and their teachers be given laptops or tablets. The idea was to establish Idaho’s schools as a high-tech vanguard. To help pay for these programs, the state may have to shift tens of millions of dollars away from salaries for teachers and administrators. And the plan envisions a fundamental change in the role of teachers, making them less a lecturer at the front of the room and more of a guide helping students through lessons delivered on computers.
  • “Teachers don’t object to the use of technology,” said Sabrina Laine, vice president of the American Institutes for Research, which has studied the views of the nation’s teachers using grants from organizations like the Gates and Ford Foundations. “They object to being given a resource with strings attached, and without the needed support to use it effectively to improve student learning.”
    • Kate Pok
      Kate Pok on 04 Jan 12
       
      What a pity, a sign of how little respect people actually give to the profession of teaching; the only profession where people don't take the comments of practitioners seriously.  Can you imagine saying to your doctor, "I know this is your diagnosis, but I'm going to go with my Great Aunt's diagnosis."
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  • They complain that lawmakers listened less to them than to heavy lobbying by technology companies, including Intel and Apple.
  • under the state’s plan, that teacher will not always be in the room. The plan requires high school students to take online courses for two of their 47 graduation credits.
    • Kate Pok
      Kate Pok on 04 Jan 12
       
      I actually find this somewhat troubling...so little research exists as to how students are actually learning online.  Are they using Facebook or are they going through MIT's Open Courseware?  I'm inclined to think the former.  I'm slowly adding more and more technology to my classes and frankly, I'm surprised that students are not more technologically savvy... the first and second digital divides are increasingly evident...
    • Carol Pearsall
      Carol Pearsall on 05 Jan 12
       
      Interesting article, however, you can't ignore that students today will be doing a significant amount of learning on a computer. If our high school students can't master managing an online class in high school, how will they fare later on? It's another learning tool. 2 classes out of 47 credits? How is that detrimental to the development of lifelong learners? We can research until the cows come home, but at some point if we don't dive in, we miss the boat. While we can all wish for all our students to graduate high school and then go on to college, the reality is that most of them won't. That's reality... Preparing our kids for future learning and building those skills necessary to be successful to master online courses is a skill they will need to succeed in their digital world.
Martin Burrett

QikPad - Instant Collaboration Tool - 113 views

qikpad.co.uk

collaboration writing notepad notes etherpad

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  • Martin Burrett on 21 Dec 11
     
    One of a host of Etherpad inspired collaborative notepads, but with a few little extra features, like being able to make a link to a read only page. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Martin Burrett

Beautiful Curves - 129 views

tholman.com/...beautiful-curves

paint draw drawing art

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  • Martin Burrett on 30 Dec 11
     
    A fun little art site where your every line grows into interesting shapes. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design
Martin Burrett

AgreeDo - Meetings with Results! - 86 views

www.agreedo.com

meeting collaboration agenda minutes

shared by Martin Burrett on 26 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 26 Jan 12
     
    Are your meetings disorganised and always over run? This is a good little site for creating agendas and minutes that will keep everything in one place for your staff to work on together. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Bonnie Breeden

What's a QR code and why should you care? (USA Today) - 6 views

www.usatoday.com/...1

technology QR codes

shared by Bonnie Breeden on 27 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Bonnie Breeden on 27 Jan 12
     
    How aware are you of those little black and white squares popping up all around you?
Gerald Carey

ZCubes - Do It All, Browse, Paint, Teach, Draw, Play, Write, Publish, Handwrite, Watch,... - 7 views

home.zcubes.com/index.htm

web2.0 tools webdesign

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  • Gerald Carey on 26 Jan 12
     
    An amazingly easy web-page creator. A little bit buggy with Chrome but the potential is enormous. Keep an eye on this one!
trisha_poole

Inform Yourself: Social Networking and You - 85 views

colliedoscope.blogspot.com/...elf-social-networking-and.html

phd social networking blogs freakonomics social media social learning information age knowledge creation digital life digitalage

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  • academia is just scratching the surface about the implications of social networking and what exactly it is, what it means, and how it happens
  • scholarly speculation
  • "Has social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective?"
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  • "students were using Facebook to increase the size of their social network, and therefore their access to more information and diverse perspectives. "
  • "Powerful new technologies provide great benefits, but they also change the way we live, and not always in ways that everyone likes. An example is the spread of air conditioning, which makes us more comfortable, but those who grew up before its invention speak fondly of a time when everyone sat on the front porch and talked to their neighbors rather than going indoors to stay cool and watch TV. The declining cost of information processing and communication represents a powerful new technology, with social networking as the most recent service to be provided at modest cost. It can be expected to bring pluses and minuses."
  • social networking technologies support and enable a new model of social life, in which people’s social circles will consist of many more, but weaker, ties
  • Social networking technologies provide people with a low cost (in terms of time and effort) way of making and keeping social connections, enabling a social scenario in which people have huge numbers of diverse, but not very close, acquaintances.
  • trisha_poole on 06 Nov 11
     
    A brief look at social networking theory with interesting views of SNs and where academia are "at" with regards to the emerging field. The post is a little old (Aug 2010) but much is still relevant and the link through to the Freakonomics blog is worthwhile following.
  • Scott Perloff on 07 Nov 11
     
    I'm not sure how the connection between social networking and Chritianity will fit in a school environment.
Florence Dujardin

Cyberkids or divided generations? Characterising young people's internet use in the UK ... - 0 views

nms.sagepub.com/...1104.abstract

Internet young_people user typology

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  • Florence Dujardin on 14 Nov 11
     
    Young people are often characterised as cyberkids in reference to an assumed intense engagement and natural affinity with the internet. This article critiques the empirical basis for such claims and explores two alternative perspectives: namely, continua of use and typologies of use. Using UK data on 12-15 year old home internet users, a series of descriptive and latent class analyses of young people's internet use is presented. Results show there is little support for cyberkid characterisations and a proposed continuum of use is also shown to not fit the data. A three-way typology of use is instead presented which suggests a third of young home internet users make only limited use of the internet and the remaining two-thirds diverge into informational and creational/communicative users. These findings are used to argue that Mannheim's notion of generational units may be a useful way to characterise young people's internet use.
Martin Burrett

Random Words - 121 views

muse.dillfrog.com/random_words

words vocabulary English Literacy

shared by Martin Burrett on 31 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 31 Jan 12
     
    This is a superb random word generator split into nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Great for infusing a little magic into creative writing sessions. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
BalancEd Tech

Not Just A Teacher: Teachers As Learners - 55 views

notjustateacher-pr05bps.blogspot.com/...teachers-as-learners.html

Teachers Learner Choice

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  • BalancEd Tech on 30 Jan 12
     
    My very own little star learns best just like me-when she's interested, motivated, under no pressure of expectation and not afraid to fail. How do we as teachers transfer this type of learning to the classroom?
Peter Beens

Digital Life - Report: More kids 'cyberbaiting' teachers - 141 views

digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/...ore-kids-cyberbaiting-teachers

issues Teaching education web2.0

shared by Peter Beens on 18 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • lisagurthie on 19 Nov 11
     
    This report seems short on research and long on guesses that seems to be trying to link sensational but unrelated facts. I see little attempt made to define the terms. The teachers I know who use facebook to communicate with students do so to keep students thinking about their classwork and deadlines. The "cyberbaiting" which the reporter tries to link to facebook friending with a "perhaps"...would rarely be related. From what I've seen, kids cyberbait the teachers who are least likely to use or understand social media at all. I would imagine that a teacher who is online with students would be least likely to be a target. All this is unoffical guess, but the article does little to provide me with facts or information to contradict this.
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