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Martin Burrett

Silk - 10 views

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art digital art symmetry reflectional symmetry

shared by Martin Burrett on 02 Oct 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 02 Oct 18
     
    "Draw with ribbons of colourful light and make beautiful pieces of digital art. Try making fantastical creatures out of light, or explore symmetry in maths."
Martin Burrett

Solo: Learning Independently - 9 views

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independent learning independence independent

shared by Martin Burrett on 08 Jun 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 08 Jun 18
     
    "We are social creatures. In most respects humans are an unremarkable species without many amazing abilities, such as great strength, big teeth or flying. But we have each other, and as a result we have prospered. The same is true in the classroom. We can do great things went we work together, but that is only true went we can work independly first. Independent learning doesn't necessararily mean that you must hide away in your hermitage without the aid of the outside world, but instead means that you decide your own path and what resources you need to travel sucessfully along it."
Martin Burrett

When fish come to school, kids get hooked on science - 14 views

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biology science fish study research

shared by Martin Burrett on 11 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 11 Nov 16
     
    "A programme that brings live fish into classrooms to teach the fundamentals of biology not only helps students learn, but improves their attitudes about science, a new study finds. The study of nearly 20,000 K-12 students, who raised zebrafish from embryos over the course of a week, found that kids at all grade levels showed significant learning gains. They also responded more positively to statements such as "I know what it's like to be a scientist." The results, to be published by the journal PLOS Biology, suggest that an immersive experience with a living creature can be a particularly successful strategy to engage young people in science, technology, engineering and maths."
Matt Renwick

Why Cliques Form at Some High Schools and Not Others - The Atlantic - 37 views

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form schools atlantic design pbis

shared by Matt Renwick on 21 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Schools that grouped students by academics and created other ways to force kids with different backgrounds to cooperate (whether in clubs or on sports teams) were less ruled by segregation and hierarchy.
  • how organizations shape our behavior
  • People are social animals, but we’re also creatures of our environment. Our habitats shape our habits.
Martin Burrett

Autodesk 123D -- creature - 33 views

www.123dapp.com/creature

art 3D creature design

shared by Martin Burrett on 23 May 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 23 May 13
     
    This is a 'must try' iPad app where you can design a 3D creature. Tap, drag and pinch your creation until it is just right and then 'paint' it with the patterns you want. It's a great resource to use alongside creative writing or science work. If you have access to a 3D printer you can even fabricate your design. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/123d-creature/id594014056. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Thieme Hennis

123D Creature for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 2 views

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3d model kids ipad printing creativity tools ios

shared by Thieme Hennis on 19 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Thieme Hennis on 19 Feb 13
     
    "Create fantastic 3D characters like a pro with Autodesk 123D Creature. Design your Creature, then sculpt detailed features and paint on skin, fur, feathers, or whatever you imagine. Export your finished Creature as an image or 3D model, or have it 3D printed into a real sculpture!"
Thieme Hennis

Lifelong Kindergarten :: MIT Media Lab - 4 views

llk.media.mit.edu/projects.php

technology robotics learning mit programming education kids sensors creativity open-source tools toolkit

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  • Thieme Hennis on 19 Feb 13
     
    "Crickets are small programmable devices that can make things spin, light up, and play music. You can plug lights, motors, and sensors into a Cricket, then write computer programs to tell them how to react and behave. With Crickets, you can create musical sculptures, interactive jewelry, dancing creatures, and other artistic inventions -- and learn important math, science, and engineering ideas in the process. Crickets are based on more than a decade of NSF-funded educational research. Lifelong Kindergarten researchers collaborated with the LEGO company to create the first "programmable bricks," squeezing computational power into LEGO bricks. This research led to the LEGO MindStorms robotics kits, now used by millions of people around the world. While LEGO MindStorms is designed especially for making robots, Crickets are designed especially for making artistic creations. Crickets were refined in collaboration with the Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) museum network, and are now sold as a product through the Playful Invention Company (PICO)."
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: History, Congress, and Funny laws - 2 views

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learning history congress laws education

shared by Michael Sheehan on 14 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Michael Sheehan on 14 Jan 13
     
    Sharing of historical documents with History Pin plus a better way to keep tabs on Congress.
Dora Hawkins

Anaconda Facts and Pictures -- National Geographic Kids - 25 views

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Great resource to learn more about science

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  • Dora Hawkins on 25 Nov 12
     
    National Geographic Kids online Creature Feature about anacondas. Find facts, photos, and video. Learn more about animals online doing games and having fun.
Martin Burrett

Foodchain Game - 108 views

www.sheppardsoftware.com/...foodchaingame.swf

science food chain animals plants ecology ecosystem

shared by Martin Burrett on 06 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 06 Nov 12
     
    A lovely science activity about food chains. Click and drag the creatures to the correct positions. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Marc Patton

dotEPUB - download any webpage as an e-book - 125 views

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Teaching_Tools Online_Learning_Environments

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  • Paul McKean on 15 May 11
     
    Really Like This >> dotEPUB -Download any Webpage as an e-book http://bit.ly/lOXUvZ #bookmarklet #ebook #edtech #elearning #tlchat #edchat
  • John Lustig on 21 Mar 12
     
    The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It was built of a bright brick throughout; its sky-line was fantastic, and even its ground plan was wild. It had been the outburst of a speculative builder, faintly tinged with art, who called its architecture sometimes Elizabethan and sometimes Queen Anne, apparently under the impression that the two sovereigns were identical. It was described with some justice as an artistic colony, though it never in any definable way produced any art. But although its pretensions to be an intellectual centre were a little vague, its pretensions to be a pleasant place were quite indisputable. The stranger who looked for the first time at the quaint red houses could only think how very oddly shaped the people must be who could fit in to them. Nor when he met the people was he disappointed in this respect. The place was not only pleasant, but perfect, if once he could regard it not as a deception but rather as a dream. Even if the people were not "artists," the whole was nevertheless artistic. That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face-that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem. That old gentleman with the wild, white beard and the wild, white hat-that venerable humbug was not really a philosopher; but at least he was the cause of philosophy in others. That scientific gentleman with the bald, egg-like head and the bare, bird-like neck had no real right to the airs of science that he assumed. He had not discovered anything new in biology; but what biological creature could he have discovered more singular than himself? Thus, and thus only, the whole place had properly to be regarded; it had to be considered not so much as a workshop for artists, but as a frail but finished work of art. A man who stepped into its social atmosphere felt as if he had stepped into a written comedy.
  • Marc Patton on 10 Sep 12
     
    dotEPUB is software in the cloud that allows you to convert any webpage into an e-book
Martin Burrett

Smithsonian Wild - 8 views

siwild.si.edu/index.cfm

animals science photography photos habitat education

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  • Martin Burrett on 05 Jun 12
     
    Search through thousands of photos from animal camera traps from all over the world. See some of the most allusive creatures in the wild. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Alison Westgate

Cantor, "The Nightmare of Romantic Idealism" - 0 views

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  • With respect to man, he appears as a creator and thus as a divine figure; with respect to Zeus, he takes on the role of a rebel against divine authority and eventually of a tortured creature, thus becoming a symbol of human suffering at the hands of the gods.
  • But if one tries to align the characters in Frankenstein with traditional mythic archetypes, one runs into difficulties. Although Frankenstein at first seems to offer a potentially confusing array of mythic correspondences, by trying to sort out the mythic roles assigned to the central characters, we can approach the thematic heart of the book.
  • With respect to man, he appears as a creator and thus as a divine figure; with respect to Zeus, he takes on the role of a rebel against divine authority and eventually of a tortured creature, thus becoming a symbol of human suffering at the hands of the gods.
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    • Alison Westgate
      Alison Westgate on 24 Apr 12
       
      You should read Percy Shelley's version of Prometheus.
Martin Burrett

Cut the Rope - 103 views

www.cuttherope.ie

game strategy logic problem solving

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  • 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
Martin Burrett

Creat an Animal Ocean - 82 views

www.sheppardsoftware.com/...animaloceancreate.swf

sea animals science art flash

shared by Martin Burrett on 17 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 17 Feb 12
     
    Make your own animated watery scene with this superb flash resource. Just drag and drop your sea creatures to where you want them. A great science activity for younger children. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Carol Mortensen

Grypholump and other strange creatures of lore! - 1 views

grypholump.com

creatures language arts

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  • Carol Mortensen on 17 Jan 12
     
    A collection of curious creatures and odd tall tales. Artwork by Kyra McGuinness & words by Tim McGuinness. Are these animals, or just fancifuls. creatures of reality, or just random fantasy! You be the judge, but please don't hold a grudge, or we'll send the Ckick-eye to give you the stink-eye that's why! We hope you enjoy, our collection of beasties, and that sharing with friends you will employ.
Martin Burrett

Spore - 129 views

www.spore2d.com

avatar design biology science

shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Nov 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 Nov 11
     
    Learn about how creatures are put together by making your own with this cool, well made site. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
James Spagnoletti

Göbekli Tepe - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine - 67 views

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religion history anthropology WHAP

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  • The Birth of ReligionWe used to think agriculture gave rise to cities and later to writing, art, and religion. Now the world’s oldest temple suggests the urge to worship sparked civilization.
  • Before them are dozens of massive stone pillars arranged into a set of rings, one mashed up against the next. Known as Göbekli Tepe (pronounced Guh-behk-LEE TEH-peh), the site is vaguely reminiscent of Stonehenge, except that Göbekli Tepe was built much earlier and is made not from roughly hewn blocks but from cleanly carved limestone pillars splashed with bas-reliefs of animals—a cavalcade of gazelles, snakes, foxes, scorpions, and ferocious wild boars. The assemblage was built some 11,600 years ago, seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza. It contains the oldest known temple. Indeed, Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known example of monumental architecture—the first structure human beings put together that was bigger and more complicated than a hut. When these pillars were erected, so far as we know, nothing of comparable scale existed in the world.
  • At the time of Göbekli Tepe's construction much of the human race lived in small nomadic bands that survived by foraging for plants and hunting wild animals. Construction of the site would have required more people coming together in one place than had likely occurred before. Amazingly, the temple's builders were able to cut, shape, and transport 16-ton stones hundreds of feet despite having no wheels or beasts of burden. The pilgrims who came to Göbekli Tepe lived in a world without writing, metal, or pottery; to those approaching the temple from below, its pillars must have loomed overhead like rigid giants, the animals on the stones shivering in the firelight—emissaries from a spiritual world that the human mind may have only begun to envision.
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  • Archaeologists are still excavating Göbekli Tepe and debating its meaning. What they do know is that the site is the most significant in a volley of unexpected findings that have overturned earlier ideas about our species' deep past. Just 20 years ago most researchers believed they knew the time, place, and rough sequence of the Neolithic Revolution—the critical transition that resulted in the birth of agriculture, taking Homo sapiens from scattered groups of hunter-gatherers to farming villages and from there to technologically sophisticated societies with great temples and towers and kings and priests who directed the labor of their subjects and recorded their feats in written form. But in recent years multiple new discoveries, Göbekli Tepe preeminent among them, have begun forcing archaeologists to reconsider. At first the Neolithic Revolution was viewed as a single event—a sudden flash of genius—that occurred in a single location, Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now southern Iraq, then spread to India, Europe, and beyond. Most archaeologists believed this sudden blossoming of civilization was driven largely by environmental changes: a gradual warming as the Ice Age ended that allowed some people to begin cultivating plants and herding animals in abundance. The new research suggests that the "revolution" was actually carried out by many hands across a huge area and over thousands of years. And it may have been driven not by the environment but by something else entirely.
  • Most of the world's great religious centers, past and present, have been destinations for pilgrimages
  • Göbekli Tepe may be the first of all of them, the beginning of a pattern. What it suggests, at least to the archaeologists working there, is that the human sense of the sacred—and the human love of a good spectacle—may have given rise to civilization itself.
  • n the 1960s archaeologists from the University of Chicago had surveyed the region and concluded that Göbekli Tepe was of little interest. Disturbance was evident at the top of the hill, but they attributed it to the activities of a Byzantine-era military outpo
  • To Schmidt, the T-shaped pillars are stylized human beings, an idea bolstered by the carved arms that angle from the "shoulders" of some pillars, hands reaching toward their loincloth-draped bellies. The stones face the center of the circle—as at "a meeting or dance," Schmidt says—a representation, perhaps, of a religious ritual. As for the prancing, leaping animals on the figures, he noted that they are mostly deadly creatures: stinging scorpions, charging boars, ferocious lions. The figures represented by the pillars may be guarded by them, or appeasing them, or incorporating them as totems.
  • nches below the surface the team struck an elaborately fashioned stone. Then another, and another—a ring of standing pillars.
  • Geomagnetic surveys in 2003 revealed at least 20 rings piled together, higgledy-piggledy, under the earth.
  • he pillars were big—the tallest are 18 feet in height and weigh 16 tons. Swarming over their surfaces was a menagerie of animal bas-reliefs, each in a different style, some roughly rendered, a few as refined and symbolic as Byzantine art.
  • The circles follow a common design. All are made from limestone pillars shaped like giant spikes or capital T's.
  • They hadn't yet mastered engineering." Knoll speculated that the pillars may have been propped up, perhaps by wooden posts.
  • Within minutes of getting there," Schmidt says, he realized that he was looking at a place where scores or even hundreds of people had worked in millennia past.
  • Puzzle piled upon puzzle as the excavation continued. For reasons yet unknown, the rings at Göbekli Tepe seem to have regularly lost their power, or at least their charm. Every few decades people buried the pillars and put up new stones—a second, smaller ring, inside the first.
  • he site may have been built, filled in, and built again for centuries.
  • Bewilderingly, the people at Göbekli Tepe got steadily worse at temple building.
  • Finally the effort seems to have petered out altogether by 8200 B.C. Göbekli Tepe was all fall and no rise.
James Spagnoletti

Göbekli Tepe -National Geographic Magazine--"Origin of Religion" - 36 views

ngm.nationalgeographic.com/...mann-text

WHAP World_History_One agriculture religion prehistoric archaeology

shared by James Spagnoletti on 17 Sep 11 - No Cached
    • James Spagnoletti
      James Spagnoletti on 17 Sep 11
       
      Very cool photographs--take a look.  You will be doing your first art/artifact case studies this week. 
  • Most of the world's great religious centers, past and present, have been destinations for pilgrimages
  • Göbekli Tepe may be the first of all of them, the beginning of a pattern. What it suggests, at least to the archaeologists working there, is that the human sense of the sacred—and the human love of a good spectacle—may have given rise to civilization itself.
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  • In the 1960s archaeologists from the University of Chicago had surveyed the region and concluded that Göbekli Tepe was of little interest. Disturbance was evident at the top of the hill, but they attributed it to the activities of a Byzantine-era military outpost.
  • Schmidt had come across the Chicago researchers' brief description of the hilltop and decided to check it out. On the ground he saw flint chips—huge numbers of them. "Within minutes of getting there," Schmidt says, he realized that he was looking at a place where scores or even hundreds of people had worked in millennia past.
  • s the months and years went by, Schmidt's team
  • found a second circle of stones, then a third, and then more. Geomagnetic surveys in 2003 revealed at least 20 rings piled together, higgledy-piggledy, under the earth
  • The pillars were big—the tallest are 18 feet in height and weigh 16 tons. Swarming over their surfaces was a menagerie of animal bas-reliefs, each in a different style, some roughly rendered, a few as refined and symbolic as Byzantine art.
  • The circles follow a common design. All are made from limestone pillars shaped like giant spikes or capital T's. Bladelike, the pillars are easily five times as wide as they are deep. They stand an arm span or more apart, interconnected by low stone walls. In the middle of each ring are two taller pillars, their thin ends mounted in shallow grooves cut into the floor.
  • "They hadn't yet mastered engineering." Knoll speculated that the pillars may have been propped up, perhaps by wooden posts.
  • To Schmidt, the T-shaped pillars are stylized human beings, an idea bolstered by the carved arms that angle from the "shoulders" of some pillars, hands reaching toward their loincloth-draped bellies.
  • The stones face the center of the circle—as at "a meeting or dance," Schmidt says—a representation, perhaps, of a religious ritual.
  • As for the prancing, leaping animals on the figures, he noted that they are mostly deadly creatures: stinging scorpions, charging boars, ferocious lions. The figures represented by the pillars may be guarded by them, or appeasing them, or incorporating them as totems.
  • The site may have been built, filled in, and built again for centuries.
  • Bewilderingly, the people at Göbekli Tepe got steadily worse at temple building.
  • The earliest rings are the biggest and most sophisticated, technically and artistically. As time went by, the pillars became smaller, simpler, and were mounted with less and less care. Finally the effort seems to have petered out altogether by 8200 B.C. Göbekli Tepe was all fall and no rise.
Martin Burrett

EekoWorld - 61 views

pbskids.org/index.html

environment science ecology games videos animation

shared by Martin Burrett on 29 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 29 Aug 11
     
    An environmental site for kids. Play games, watch animations and even design your own creatures. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
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