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Ben W

Gristmill: How to talk to a climate change skeptic - 0 views

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shared by Ben W on 18 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Ben W on 18 Jun 08
     
    A complete listing of ways to counter climate skeptics for a wide variety of arguments. Very detailed. Organized by topic.
  • Ben W on 18 Jun 08
     
    A point by point list of topics climate skeptics often bring up w/ information to counter their arguments. Very thorough.
Vicki Davis

Dislecksia: The Movie | A Film by Harvey Hubbell V #spedchat - 3 views

www.dislecksiathemovie.com

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shared by Vicki Davis on 09 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 09 Sep 13
     
    A new movie is coming out on OCtober 4 that is a documentary seeking to counter popular misconceptions about Dyslexia. With Dyslexic celebrities like Billy Bob Thornton, Richard Branson and others Barbara Corcoran, and Sir Richard Branson along with Dyslexic director Harvey Hubbel. For special ed teachers and parents, you'll want to keep up with this and help debunk common myths. As a Mom of a dyslexic myself, I want to help people realize that many with this become very successful.
Dave Truss

Pearson Presents: Learning to Change - Practical Theory - 0 views

practicaltheory.org/...index.php

shared by Dave Truss on 18 May 08 - Cached
  • I remain very, very concerned with the notion that all we have to do is let the kids connect with the world -- just like they do on Facebook or MySpace -- and the kids will learn. There's a fallacy there, and my experience with how much really deep teaching of digital ethics we've had to do at SLA to counter all that the kids come in the door thinking about the digital world.
  • is there much of an honest discussion of just how hard implementation of these ideas actually is.
  • And the problem is that our entire structure has to change to make it easier. You can't teach 150 kids a day this way... you can't have traditional credit hours... you have to find new ways to look at your classroom. Everything from school design to teacher contracts to class size and teacher load to curriculum and assessment -- everything we do in schools -- has to be on the table for change if we are to achieve the kind of schools that video is speaking about. The only thing that shouldn't be on the table, and that the video actually hints that it should be, is the need for teachers in their day to day lives-- the adults who can make a deep profound impact in kids' lives.
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  • Because nowhere in that talk
  • "If we just change it all up, the kids will all suddenly just start learning like crazy" when that misses several points -- 1) we still have an insanely anti-intellectual culture that is so much more powerful than schools. 2) Deep learning is still hard, and our culture is moving away from valuing things that are hard to do. 3) We still need teachers to teach kids thoughtfulness, wisdom, care, compassion, and there's an anti-teacher rhetoric that, to me, undermines that video's message.
  • We cannot pretend these ideas "save" our schools, they create different schools -- better ones, I believe -- but very, very different ones, and that's the piece I see missing.
  • Dave Truss on 18 May 08
     
    I remain very, very concerned with the notion that all we have to do is let the kids connect with the world.... There's a fallacy there, and my experience with how much really deep teaching of digital ethics we've had to do at SLA to counter all that the kids come in the door thinking about the digital world.
Ben W

New Google Earth Layer Shows Global Deforestation : TreeHugger - 0 views

www.treehugger.com/...google_earth_deforestation.php

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shared by Ben W on 18 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Ben W on 18 Jun 08
     
    Links to a Google Earth layer showing the rates of deforestation around the world.
  • Ben W on 18 Jun 08
     
    Layers of polygons showing the rate of deforestation (or forestation) for the countries of the world. Links to an active counter of hectares forested in that country.
Nelly Cardinale

Why Is it free? - 0 views

www.statcounter.com/why_is_it_free.html

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  • Nelly Cardinale on 18 Mar 09
     
    Free stat counter for bloggers.
Vicki Davis

Behaviour - Top Tips from Tom - Resources - TES - 6 views

www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx

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shared by Vicki Davis on 02 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 02 Nov 11
     
    An article about Cyberbullying and how to recognize one and what to do to help. I think the point about bullies counter-accusing of bullying is an important one just because I've seen it happen so much!
Martin Burrett

Schools key to successful integration of child refugees - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 01 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 01 Feb 18
     
    "Schools can provide the ideal environment to improve integration and reduce the difficulties faced by refugee children in Western asylum countries, according to a new study from psychologists at City, University of London. The research, which involved speaking to refugees who had arrived in England and Denmark as children, highlights that schools can provide safe and stable setting where refugee children can develop meaningful and constructive connections to peers, teachers and other professionals, as well as being a place in which discrimination, racism and stigmatisation can be actively countered."
Angela Maiers

Opposing Views: Issues, Experts, Answers - 0 views

www.opposingviews.com

opposing views

shared by Angela Maiers on 24 Jul 08 - Cached
    • Eloise Pasteur
      Eloise Pasteur on 24 Jul 08
       
      Hard to find text to highlight. This site has a strong US bias, although some global issues. They take strong, important issues and have two experts present arguments and counter-arguments. The quality rather depends on the speaker - even on some where I'm undecided there are objections by one side that are just facile, ignorant grandstanding, but overall there is some good content and there is often links to evidence rather than rhetoric too.
  • Eloise Pasteur on 24 Jul 08
     
    Like it suggests, a place where public debate is encouraged and supported - although some of the debate is low quality.
  • Angela Maiers on 03 Sep 08
     
    Great resource for teaching critical reading and opposing viewpoints.
yc c

Reeko's Mad Scientist Science Experiments - Science Experiments for Kids - 14 views

www.reekoscience.com/Experiments

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shared by yc c on 20 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Crazy Stats Number of insects born on the planet since this page loaded: 51,105 bugs Want more real-time statistics? Check out the Reeko's World Stats Counter.
  • yc c on 20 Apr 10
     
    Some cool projects here - Source of free science projects and experiments for parents, teachers, and children of all ages.
Steve Ransom

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 11 views

www.nytimes.com/...-faces-questions-on-value.html

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shared by Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • When it comes to showing results, he said, “We better put up or shut up.”
  • Critics counter that, absent clear proof, schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals. They say the technology advocates have it backward when they press to upgrade first and ask questions later.
  • how the district was innovating.
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  • district was innovating
  • there is no good way to quantify those achievements — putting them in a tough spot with voters deciding whether to bankroll this approach again
  • “We’ve jumped on bandwagons for different eras without knowing fully what we’re doing. This might just be the new bandwagon,” he said. “I hope not.”
  • $46.3 million for laptops, classroom projectors, networking gear and other technology for teachers and administrators.
  • If we know something works
  • it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training
  • “Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things students are doing: learning to use the Internet to research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.”
  • Good teachers, he said, can make good use of computers, while bad teachers won’t, and they and their students could wind up becoming distracted by the technology.
  • “It’s not the stuff that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.”
  • creating an impetus to rethink education entirely
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Like teaching powerpoint is "rethinking education". Right.
  • “There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.”
  • “They’re inundated with 24/7 media, so they expect it,”
  • The 30 students in the classroom held wireless clickers into which they punched their answers. Seconds later, a pie chart appeared on the screen: 23 percent answered “True,” 70 percent “False,” and 6 percent didn’t know.
  • rofessor Cuban at Stanford argues that keeping children engaged requires an environment of constant novelty, which cannot be sustained.
  • engagement is a “fluffy
  • term” that can slide past critical analysis.
  • that computers can distract and not instruct.
  • guide on the side.
  • Professor Cuban at Stanford
  • But she loves the fact that her two children, a fourth-grader and first-grader, are learning technology, including PowerPoint
  • The high-level analyses that sum up these various studies, not surprisingly, give researchers pause about whether big investments in technology make sense.
  • Mr. Share bases his buying decisions on two main factors: what his teachers tell him they need, and his experience. For instance, he said he resisted getting the interactive whiteboards sold as Smart Boards until, one day in 2008, he saw a teacher trying to mimic the product with a jury-rigged projector setup. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said, leading him to buy Smart Boards, made by a company called Smart Technologies.
  • This is big business.
  • “Do we really need technology to learn?” she said. “It’s a very valid time to ask the question, right before this goes on the ballot.”
Ted Sakshaug

http://www.shambles.net/worldclock/worldclock.swf - 7 views

www.shambles.net/...worldclock.swf

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 18 Nov 09 - No Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 18 Nov 09
     
    clock and various statistics
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