An important resource for those in early childhood to read.
NAEYC and the Fred Rogers Center Release New Guidance on the Use of Media and Interactive Technology in Early Childhood Programs
Faced with a choice between maturity and pain minimization, Silicon Valley has chosen the latter.
He thought it's a complex process that involves you telling a story, processing some sensory experience. It's not just about being confronted with pictures, facts or numbers. Now, unfortunately that's how Silicon Valley thinks, because those are the things they can record.
how problem solvers define problems matters a great dea
That's the kind of an app that definitely has a logic behind it. It has a philosophy and that's a philosophy that says that you need to care about the environment because you want to impress your friends.
But other people would say, well, this is how cultural innovation happens. We need to leave certain margins of error in place and actually allow people to mix ingredients in ways that are silly and unexpectable for new cultural innovation, new culinary products to emerge. I
t's not being marketed as a vice fee. It's being marketed as a health premium.
need to understand that imperfection actually matters
being unable to live in a world that still tolerates inconsistency
Teachers expert in inspiring long-term, personally meaningful and interdisciplinary projects or thematic instruction regularly exceed the standards, but that realization is lost on facilitators.
New teachers have little or no experience with classroom centers, independent work, student projects and the sorts of agency that allow children to enjoy the “flow” experiences that build upon their obsessions and lead to understanding. Even when teachers are not lecturing from bell-to-bell, the classroom agenda is top-down and leaves little chance for serendipity or student initiative.
Great teachers know their students in deeper ways than any data can provide. They ask kids about their weekends. They chat about what kids are reading and console them when their hamster dies
They learn continuously for themselves and their students. Teachers share their love of reading and are patrons of the arts. They are active citizens and engage students in current events. Outstanding teachers are not afraid to appear silly or create a whimsical classroom environment. They play in the snow with kindergarteners like Maria Knee.
great teachers need to be passionate, competent and interesting humans beyond the scope and sequence of the curriculum.
oday, new teachers truly are facilitators. They are “trained” to manage classrooms and deliver the curriculum handed to them.
That's it. YOU have to use the tools first so that you can integrate them with your students in a natural, logical way. Demonstrate being a [digital] learner for yourself. Then, it is just a natural extension with your students.
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Google+ Hangouts now allow you to screenshare/share desktop with those in your hangout. Great new feature to provide troubleshooting/support amongst other things.
Google+ Hangounts allow you and 8 others to have a video meeting and access/share your Google Docs with those in the meeting. Great tool.