The Littlewood Nature Guide wiki gives examples of some of the flora and fauna that can be found in our school's environmental center - Nature Guide Home
Red Storm was invited to the White House to participate in an educational game jam bringing together students, educators, developers, and policy makers. The goal? Explore how games can play a part in children's education.
Great way for teachers to incorporate digital skills into the curriculum. Offers planning guides, teaching techniques, activities and projects for teaching computer graphics and image editing.
Getting sick of AA batteries? Here's the guide for you. A nice listing of the non-tech orgs in the bibliography. I agree with it, but I also think these guys shouldn't throw the baby w/the bathwater. Learned about this from CCIE.
Chapter 5 of the online book Young Children, New Media, and Libraries: A Guide for Incorporating New Media into Library Collections, Services, and Programs for Families and Children Ages 0-
http://littleelit.com/book/
they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks
While SNSs have implemented a wide variety of technical features, their backbone consists of visible profiles that display an articulated list of Friends1 who are also users of the system.
Structural variations around visibility and access are one of the primary ways that SNSs differentiate themselves from each other.
the first recognizable social network site launched in 1997
Most took the form of profile-centric sites
Unlike previous SNSs, Facebook was designed to support distinct college networks only.
a shift in the organization of online communities
primarily organized around people, not interests
"Friends" on SNSs are not the same as "friends" in the everyday sense; instead, Friends provide context by offering users an imagined audience to guide behavioral norms.
there are passive members, inviters, and linkers "who fully participate in the social evolution of the network"
most SNSs primarily support pre-existing social relations.
she argues that SNSs are "networked publics" that support sociability, just as unmediated public spaces do.
Scholars are documenting the implications of SNS use with respect to schools, universities, and libraries.
Parents need help figuring out how to set limits with new media and making sure it doesn’t replace one-on-one time talking with their children, which experts agree is still the most valuable learning tool of all.
in addition to identifying quality in children’s media, is getting parents to understand the importance of setting limits and guiding their children’s media play.
before using technology with young children, teachers and parents should ask themselves: “What’s the value added at this particular developmental level?” and, “What can technology offer that other things can’t offer?”
“What are really useful are the interactive and empowering tools.”
“I get nervous when people just close the door on technology in preschool,” she said. “There’s an opening of windows onto new worlds that can occur when you have a computer there – a YouTube video or a Skype chat with other preschools in Sweden or Singapore. These are especially magical moments that can happen with young kids - especially when they just don’t get that otherwise.”