This could have happened at some point early in human evolution, when in order to survive, people were forced to cooperate in hunting game or gathering fruit. The path to obligatory cooperation — one that other primates did not take — led to social rules and their enforcement, to human altruism and to language. “Humans putting their heads together in shared cooperative activities are thus the originators of human culture,” Dr. Tomasello writes.
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AFT - Publications - American Educator - 2 views
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Most of the articles seem to be available for free as pdfs.
The Lexile Framework for Reading | Lexile.com - 10 views
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Use this page to match readers to books based on their Lexile score. Truly amazing, adjustable and wonderful - highly recommended.
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time - 11 views
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EXTREMELY cool graphic for demonstrating the size of US public debt to students in a clear, visual manner. The sources for the figures seem reliable.
Literacy Creep at The Core Knowledge Blog - 13 views
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An article in last week's Education Week looks at the increasingly common practice of reading aloud to middle and high school students. In discussing the practice with Mary Ann Zehr (I'm quoted briefly in the piece) I made the point that while there is certainly nothing wrong with reading out loud to teenagers, it is symptomatic of what I call "literacy creep" - the tendency of elementary school-style instructional techniques to find their way deeper into K-12 education across all content areas.
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Yet another beautiful analysis of a major problem in education today by the good people at Core Knowledge.
Some Biologists Find an Urge in Human Nature to Help - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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could this drive Professional Development for teachers? forced collaboration is what we do to students... it is natural... next time a student asks me to work alone, pleading..."do i have to work with people?"
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Text editor with built-in real-time writing support - 20 views
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A micropayments model allows students to solicit feedback from a wide net of scholars and experts, one piece of feedback at a time: the first-ever knowledge market place to be superimposed over a text editor.
eTwinning - Homepage - 7 views
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The community for schools in Europe
hickstro - What's_the_Matter_with_Wikis - 16 views
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Details last edit Nov 21, 2009 5:20 am by hickstro hickstro - 5 revisions hide details Tags * edit * Type a tag name. Press comma or enter to add another. Cancel Edit This Page What's the Matter with Wikis? Exploring the Social Space of Wikis as a Collaborative Writing Tool
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Details last edit Nov 21, 2009 5:20 am by hickstro hickstro - 5 revisions hide details Tags * edit * Type a tag name. Press comma or enter to add another. Cancel Edit This Page What's the Matter with Wikis? Exploring the Social Space of Wikis as a Collaborative Writing Tool
Classpress.net - 19 views
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Headlines and links to sites with stories about newsworthy topics in a wide variety of subjects.
School:Education - Wikiversity - 10 views
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I know wikis are as popular with some educators as Al-Qaeda is with the CIA, however sometimes these portals and schools on Wikimedia sites can contain some interesting and useful information. I think so, anyway.
Amazon.com: Storied City: A Children's Book Walking-Tour Guide to New York City (978052... - 1 views
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A book that is self-guided walking tours in NYC based on children's literature.
Welcome to the William Blake Archive - 5 views
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The Andrew Blake (1757-1827) Archive in North Carlolina, USA, is "not a physical repository of Blake's collected works, nor is it a clearinghouse through which users can obtain reproductions of those works. [...]" It is "an online hypermedia environment that allows its users to access high-quality electronic reproductions of a growing portion of Blake's work.
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Useful for literature or modern history classes.
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