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Fred Delventhal

Because It Flew - Home - 10 views

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  • Fred Delventhal on 21 Jun 11
     
    Free! Minimal preparation required For kids in school or on summer vacation Appropriate for ages 9-17 (grades 4-12) Engaging (even fun!) project for students STEM integrated with language arts Cash awards, remote mentoring session with professional graphic artist
Megan Black

Wild Music - 16 views

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  • Megan Black on 05 Jul 11
     
    Build your own soundscapes, explore and contribute to a map of sounds, and learn what makes up a soundscape. Combines the work of naturalist and musicians.
Deven Black

The Ocean Portal | Smithsonian Institution - 8 views

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  • Deven Black on 04 Jul 11
     
    This is still in beta, but this site includes pictures, videos and other cool stuff from the Smithsonian Institution and other sources, all about the ocean and what is in it.
Patti Porto

Morgridge Institute releases first educational game (WTN News) - 5 views

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  • Patti Porto on 25 Oct 11
     
    "Researchers at the new Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have released the biomedical research organization's first digital learning game created through collaborations among scientists and education researchers. "
Suzie Nestico

Assessment Tools Needed in Every Classroom | edtechdigest.com - 15 views

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shared by Suzie Nestico on 05 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • n ideal classroom to me would be one where teachers were all given tablets in a wi-fi or, ideally, a satellite-based classroom where that tablet was connected to the school intranet and Internet. From there, an app would connect me to the school’s Student Management System (SMS) where I could see vital student info
  • What I talk about is not science fiction. I could mention countless products that do at least one part of what I have described. The technology exists today for all of this to become a reality. We can make it a reality—we only need more educators involved in productive discussions stating what they really need, and helping those in industry to create these products for us. Keeping track of data and sharing it with others should not be such a tedious task. Let us together build the next big learning management system, assessment tool, data dashboard and performance indicator all in one. We’re closer to achieving that reality than you might think.
Deron Durflinger

Niall Ferguson: How American Civilization Can Avoid Collapse - The Daily Beast - 4 views

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  • “killer applications
  • Competition
  • The Scientific Revolution
  • ...29 more annotations...
  • Modern Medicine
  • The Consumer Society
  • The Work Ethic
  • The Rule of Law and Representative Government.
  • these killer apps were essentially monopolized by Europeans and their cousins who settled in North America and Australasia
  • the great divergence
  • They also grew more powerful
  • 20th century, just a dozen Western empires—-including the United States—controlled 58 percent of the world’s land surface and population, and a staggering 74 percent of the global economy.
  • tendency of Western societies to delete their own killer apps.
  • But there is a second, more insidious cause of the “great reconvergence,” which I do deplore—and that is the
  • Ask yourself: who’s got the work ethic now? The average South Korean works about 39 percent more hours per week than the average American. The school year in South Korea is 220 days long, compared with 180 days here. And you don’t have to spend too long at any major U.S. university to know which students really drive themselves: the Asians and Asian-Americans
  • Yet life expectancy in the U.S. has risen from 70 to 78 in the past 50 years, compared with leaps from 68 to 83 in Japan and from 43 to 73 in China.
  • On no fewer than 15 of 16 different issues relating to property rights and governance, the United States fares worse than Hong Kong. Indeed, the U.S. makes the global top 20 in only one area: investor protection
  • The future belongs not to them but to today’s teenagers
  • The latest data on “mathematical literacy” reveal that the gap between the world leaders—the students of Shanghai and Singapore—and their American counterparts is now as big as the gap between U.S. kids and teenagers in Albania and Tunisia.
  • Yet statistics from the World Intellectual Property Organization show that already more patents originate in Japan than in the U.S., that South Korea overtook Germany to take third place in 2005, and that China is poised to overtake Germany too
  • the United States’ average competitiveness score has fallen from 5.82 to 5.43, one of the steepest declines among developed economies. China’s score, meanwhile, has leapt up from 4.29 to 4.90.
  • Perhaps more disturbing is the decline of meaningful competition at home, as the social mobility of the postwar era has given way to an extraordinary social polarization. You don’t have to be an Occupy Wall Street leftist to believe that the American super-rich elite—the 1 percent that collects 20 percent of the income—has become dangerously divorced from the rest of society, especially from the underclass at the bottom of the income distribution.
  • Far more than in Europe, most Americans remain instinctively loyal to the killer applications of Western ascendancy, from competition all the way through to the work ethic. They know the country has the right software. They just can’t understand why it’s running so damn slowly.
  • What we need to do is to delete the viruses that have crept into our system: the anticompetitive quasi monopolies that blight everything from banking to public education; the politically correct pseudosciences and soft subjects that deflect good students away from hard science; the lobbyists who subvert the rule of law for the sake of the special interests they represent—to say nothing of our crazily dysfunctional system of health care, our overleveraged personal finances, and our newfound unemployment ethic
  • And finally we need to reboot our whole system.
  • If what we are risking is not decline but downright collapse, then the time frame may be even tighter than one election cycle
  • Western Civilization's Killer Apps
  • COMPETITION
  • THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
  • THE RULE OF LAW
  • MODERN MEDICINE
  • THE CONSUMER SOCIETY
  • THE WORK ETHIC
Brendan Murphy

Homework: An unnecessary evil? … Surprising findings from new research - The ... - 18 views

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  • six hours a day of academics are enough, and kids should have the chance after school to explore other interests and develop in other ways — or be able simply to relax in the same way that most adults like to relax after work;
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 03 Oct 14
       
      My only problem with this is that too many adults see relaxing after school as watching TV and drinking beer.
  • translated as “A relentless regimen of after-school drill-and-skill can raise scores a wee bit on tests of rote learning.”)
  • Even if homework were a complete waste of time, how could it not be positively related to course grades?
  • Walter Antoniotti on 02 Nov 14
     
    FDR's private school president listed these four missions for his students ranked by importance. 1) Religion 2) Character 3) Athletics 4) Academics His president at Harvard felt and required a few basic courses and then students should take what they want. The social science and math teachers created well rounded to keep their jobs, I could care if my layer or doctor is well rounded, me, I want success!
anonymous

Cloud Types: common cloud classifications - 4 views

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  • anonymous on 20 Jul 14
     
    Cloud types.
Jenny Gilbert

Teachers' TV Australia - 1 views

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 21 Jan 09
     
    aussie Teachers TV and Video channel -
Martin Burrett

DAQRI Anatomy 4D - 3 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 05 Jan 15
     
    An augmented reality Apple & Android app which allows you to explore human anatomy.
Martin Burrett

Elements 4D - 4 views

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chemistry science app Apple App Apple

shared by Martin Burrett on 24 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 24 Feb 15
     
    This Apple app bills itself as 'part toy, part chemistry experiment'. Connect augmented reality blocks to digitally mix/react chemicals together and view the information and visualisations. No fume cupboard necessary.
Vicki Davis

Teachers | CareerFoundry - 6 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 13 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 13 Nov 14
     
    A mentored PD program helping teachers learn to teach code.
C CC

Codecast - 0 views

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shared by C CC on 20 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • C CC on 20 Feb 15
     
    A simple HTML/CSS editor which updates in real-time. Perfect for teaching to a class on your whiteboard or for students to experiment with.
Martin Burrett

Go React - 3 views

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science chemistry app Apple App Android app

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  • Martin Burrett on 18 Mar 15
     
    Download this Apple and Android app which simulates a huge range of chemical reactions and find lots of interactive information about the chemical elements.
Martin Burrett

Marsquest Online - 6 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 17 Mar 15
     
    Settle the argument of who's is truly bigger with this planet size comparison tool. View a image of each planet as it's real ratio.
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