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Ed Webb

Peru's ambitious laptop program gets mixed grades - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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  • what we did was deliver the computers without preparing the teachers
  • the missteps may have actually widened the gap between children able to benefit from the computers and those ill-equipped to do so
  • Inter-American Development Bank researchers were less polite."There is little solid evidence regarding the effectiveness of this program," they said in a study sharply critical of the overall OLPC initiative that was based on a 15-month study at 319 schools in small, rural Peruvian communities that got laptops."The magical thinking that mere technology is enough to spur change, to improve learning, is what this study categorically disproves," co-author Eugenio Severin of Chile told The Associated Press
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  • OLPC laptops, which are rugged and energy efficient and run an open-source variant of the Linux operating system, are in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Mongolia and Haiti, and even in the United States and Australia. Uruguay, a compact South American nation of 3.5 million people, is the only country that has fully embraced the concept and given every elementary school child and teacher an XO laptop
  • no increased math or language skills, no improvement in classroom instruction quality, no boost in time spent on homework, no improvement in reading habits
  • On the positive side, the "dramatic increase in access to computers" accelerated by about six months students' abstract reasoning, verbal fluency and speed in processing information
  • "We knew from the start that it wouldn't be possible to improve the teachers," he said, citing a 2007 census of 180,000 Peruvian teachers that showed more than 90 percent lacked basic math skills while three in five could not read above sixth-grade level.
  • Each teacher was supposed to get 40 hours of OLPC training. That hardly helped in schools where teachers had never so much as booted up a computer. In Patzer's experience "most of them barely knew how to interact with the computers at all."
  • In the higher grades, Martinez said, children's use of the machines is mostly social
  • "For them, the laptop is more for playing than for learning,"
  • Negroponte thinks the main goal of technology educators should be simply getting computers into poor kids' hands.His proposal last year to parachute tablet computers from helicopters, limiting the involvement of adults and "educators," caused some colleagues to wince. But Negroponte is dead serious, and has begun a pilot project in two Ethiopian villages to test whether tablets alone, loaded with the right software, can teach children to read.
  • The OLPC team always considered Internet connectivity part of the recipe for success. They also insisted that each child be given a laptop and be permitted to take it home.Uruguay, a small, flat country with a far higher standard of living and ubiquitous Internet, has honored those requirementsPeru did not
  • Some schools didn't have enough electricity to power the machines.And then there was the Internet. Less than 1 percent of the schools studied had it.
Vicki Davis

Download your free 12 Games of Christmas Teaching Pack - TES Topics - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 30 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 30 Nov 11
     
    Here's the content of the 12 games of Christmas teaching pack. NOTE: IF you download, you will probably have to manually enter your school's information, especially if you are from outside the UK as many of us are just coming into the TES platform now.
Jason Heiser

perimetros.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) - 6 views

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elementary math

shared by Jason Heiser on 09 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 09 Feb 12
     
    A fun and useful area and perimeter 2D shape tutorial and interactive activities for you whiteboard. Learn how to find the area and perimeter of rectangles and triangles and then complete the questions. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Ruth Howard

Mathematically Correct Breakfast -- Mobius Sliced Linked Bagel - 6 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 25 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 25 Feb 10
     
    Make a cream cheese bagel link into a mobius!
Ruth Howard

Clock - 16 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 23 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 23 Feb 10
     
    Early years educators-manipulate clock to match analog time or v.v
Maggie Verster

"Free math lessons plans for elementary, middle school, and high school grade levels. - 18 views

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anonymous

Free First 1st Grade Reading Lessons - Homeschool, After School, Elementary School, Sum... - 8 views

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shared by anonymous on 27 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 27 Jan 11
     
    kindergarten - 2nd grade reading and math lessons
anonymous

Crickweb | Early Years - 9 views

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elementary interactive activities

shared by anonymous on 28 Jan 11 - Cached
  • anonymous on 28 Jan 11
     
    math and reading activities- from the UK
anonymous

Illuminations: Mathematics and Football - 16 views

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illuminations mathematics elementary

shared by anonymous on 04 Feb 11 - Cached
  • anonymous on 04 Feb 11
     
    Scavenger hunt relating to math and football.
Megan Black

Cyberkidz educational games - free PK5 resources for elementary schools math topography... - 19 views

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shared by Megan Black on 23 May 11 - Cached
  • Megan Black on 23 May 11
     
    New educational games for ages 4-11 with cool visuals
Ted Sakshaug

SOS Classroom - 1 views

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 08 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 08 Jul 09
     
    SOS Classroom offers a directory of free online educational resources for K-8 Language Arts and Math. These sites are submitted by parents and teachers, and they are all reviewed and organized by members of the SOS Classroom team!
Ted Sakshaug

Practice Math Word Problems - 16 views

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 22 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 22 Oct 09
     
    Working with word problems
Denis S

New! FREE Algebra Games - 16 views

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shared by Denis S on 21 Oct 09 - Cached
  • First Grade - Algebra - Pictorial Symbols and Patterns
  • Third Grade - Algebra - Patterns, Relationships and Functions
  • Fourth Grade - Algebra - Equations and Inequalities
Martin Burrett

Revision: KS2 SATs Revision Apps - 0 views

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apps elementary primary KS2

shared by Martin Burrett on 21 Dec 17 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 21 Dec 17
     
    "At the age of 11, in England, pupils sit their SATs papers, assessing their progress mainly in Literacy and Maths (some school also check progression in Science). Although there have been subtle changes to the system over the last few years, many schools, observers, parents and politicians still hold the tests in high esteem, so pressure is placed on pupils to do the best they can."
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