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anonymous

Climate warning as Siberia melts - environment - 11 August 2005 - New Scientist - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...-warning-as-siberia-melts.html

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  • anonymous on 11 Dec 08
     
    Kirpotin describes an "ecological landslide that is probably irreversible and is undoubtedly connected to climatic warming". He says that the entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region has begun to melt, and this "has all happened in the last three or four years".
anonymous

Too late? Why scientists say we should expect the worst of global warming | Environment... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...warming-targets-climate-change

climate change global warming kidsgcci08

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  • anonymous on 11 Dec 08
     
    Despite the political rhetoric, the scientific warnings, the media headlines and the corporate promises, he would say, carbon emissions were soaring way out of control - far above even the bleak scenarios considered by last year's report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Stern review. The battle against dangerous climate change had been lost, and the world needed to prepare for things to get very, very bad.
Vicki Davis

Federation of American Scientists :: The National Center for Research in Advanced Infor... - 0 views

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edu_news education learning

shared by Vicki Davis on 20 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 20 Aug 08
     
    New center for researching information and digital technologies and the impact on learning has been created.
  • Vicki Davis on 20 Aug 08
     
    Comprehensive research on how advanced computer and communication technologies can improve all levels of learning has been funded. This National Center was created and signed into law on August 14, 2008 in the United States. I think that research is a great thing. I they will involve all educators in developing their primary questions. Research based best practices underlie all we do and we do need more. I hope, however, they don't get too hung up on the technology (i.e. wiki, blog) and focus on what technology lets us do.
Ben W

Six 'uniquely' human traits now found in animals - New Scientist - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...its-now-found-in-animals-.html

animals biology culture emotion morality personality science traits

shared by Ben W on 27 May 08 - Cached
  • Ben W on 27 May 08
     
    Several traits that have been described as unique to humans have been found in animal populations as well.
Ben W

Science News / Scientists Get A 2nd Life - 0 views

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education science secondlife techintegrator technology virtualworlds

shared by Ben W on 15 May 08 - Cached
  • Through iPods and mp3 players, Facebook, cell phones and texting, young people become familiar with current technologies and often view them as an extension of themselves, Kennedy says. As a result, they’re drawn to learning techniques that employ novel devices. “Most of this younger generation has grown up entirely with the Internet. How can we not incorporate technology into our curriculum?” she says
  • Ben W on 15 May 08
     
    Article describing real science being done in virtual environments. Excellent read. Also discusses use of second life as an educational tool.
Keith Hamon

Location Awareness: Scientist Admits to Secretly Tracking 100K+ Peoples' Phones - ReadW... - 0 views

www.readwriteweb.com/..._awareness_tracking_phones.php

big brother readwriteweb techintegrator technology

shared by Keith Hamon on 05 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Keith Hamon on 05 Jun 08
     
    Hmm. So big brother, or little sister, or anyone else, is watching you, tracking your location via your cell phone signal. This development may convince control freaks to allow cell phones in schools.
Ben W

USGS Release: Dramatic Developments at Kilauea Volcano: Scientists Work to Keep Public ... - 0 views

www.usgs.gov/...article.asp

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shared by Ben W on 03 Apr 08 - Cached
  • first explosive eruption since 1924.
    • Ben W
      Ben W on 03 Apr 08
       
      Explosive eruptions are very rare at classic shield volcanoes like Kilauea. It's generalized that shield volcanoes are effusive, not explosive.
  • Sulfur dioxide emissions at the volcano's summit have increased to a rate that is likely to be hazardous for areas downwind of Halema`uma`u crater
    • Ben W
      Ben W on 03 Apr 08
       
      Check out: http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/kilaueastatus.php for April 2. Also describes a small ash cloud produced by Kilauea. Another rare shield volcano event.
  • Ben W on 03 Apr 08
     
    New activity at Kilauea doesn't match the "classic" shield volcano descriptions. Good chance to show that while humans try to categorize natural events as well as they can It doesn't always happen that way.
  • Ben W on 03 Apr 08
     
    Good example of "messy" science
Emily Vickery

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School | Brain... - 1 views

www.brainrules.net

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  • The brain is an amazing thing. Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know.
  • Emily Vickery on 24 Jun 08
     
    Great website for application to learning.
Maggie Verster

I just love this science site: The naked scientist - 38 views

www.thenakedscientists.com

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  • Maggie Verster on 18 Apr 10
     
    Science radio and podcast with losts of resources and experiments for teh science class. Love it
yc c

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

www.reekoscience.com/Experiments

experiments fun science projects education

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.
David Hilton

Constructivism - 0 views

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  • Heath Sawyer on 25 Mar 09
     
    Links, research and readings on constructivism
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  • David Hilton on 04 May 09
     
    Constructivist theories grew out of the work of a couple of Russians around the time of the Russian Revolution. It is radical subjectivism dressed up as science, and has no scientific credibility whatsoever. It is used by radical educators to push their barrow that nothing the teacher knows is worth the student learning and that all knowledge is innate. It's bullsh*t. Theories like this rot are part of the reason that the bottom has dropped out of Western education and we have a generation who can't write. This should be resisted by any educator with an interest in educational excellence.
  • Ken Stanton on 04 May 09
     
    David, back up your argument. If you think this is junk science, then be a real scientist and substantiate your claim. I'm a very objective thinker and will listen and gladly debate this with you, but having studied this and used it, I'm skeptical of your dissent. It is the only thing that has gotten me through our failed education system, not the reason the system has failed (unless your argument is that our system is failing due to lack of use of constructivist approaches).
  • David Hilton on 13 Jun 09
     
    Constructivism is a prime example of the dangers of deductive reasoning. Instead of starting with evidence from observed reality which the scientific method dictates (inductive reasoning) constructivism starts with theories and then makes the evidence fit the theory or else dismisses it and rationalises it away. It's the same type of thinking that has gotten all ideologues into trouble throughout history, whether it's the Spanish Inquisition, the Nazis, the hippies or the recent Wall Street bankers who drove our economy off a cliff. Any true system of thought must start with the real world as its beginning, or else it's just a bunch of people making stuff up and then defending it despite all evidence to the contrary until the weight of truth destroys them and usually the institutions they've taken over.
anonymous

Diigo conversations push kids deeper - Reflections of a Techie - 21 views

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  • But I have to tell you that despite all the pain in my neck this has been, I'm LOVING Diigo.  We are annotating the blogs as we read them and then dissecting what they mean.  Now imagine my little kids (6th graders you know) trying to understand that the geochemistry of this sediment can tell scientist about the cycling of sea levels...and this cycling is important to the coastal cities survival throughout the world.  We're just at the most basic places, but they are digging through...asking me questions and pulling out info they think is relevant.I have them write summaries and email those summaries from Diigo to me each weekend.  OK...not all are great.  But most of these kids "get it" and are pretty interested in the science being conducted.  I think they are also grooving on the conversation we get from highlighting important things from the blogs and then chatting (via the annotation commenting feature) about why it's important and what are the next things we should look for.
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      anonymous on 25 Nov 09
       
      This is VERY good! Congratulations! I LOVE to read about teachers who are experimenting out of their comfort zone with technologies like Diigo that produce such positive results. This experiment you're doing with your kiddos is something that will change forever how they view online resources. And, it will change how they look at the web. All very positive, and all skills that will last far into their education. Yes, it is, as you say, the BEST.
John Marr

Don't show, don't tell? - MIT News Office - 11 views

web.mit.edu/...teaching-children-0630.html

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  • Don’t show, don’t tell? Cognitive scientists find that when teaching young children, there is a trade-off between direct instruction and independent exploration. Emily Finn, MIT News Office
  • It turns out that there is a “double-edged sword” to pedagogy: Explicit instruction makes children less likely to engage in spontaneous exploration and discovery.
  • The danger is leading children to believe that they’ve learned all there is to know, thereby discouraging independent discovery.
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  • To study this phenomenon, the researchers built an original toy
  • they recruited 85 preschool-age children to interact with the toy under one of four conditions: pedagogical, interrupted, naïve and baseline.
  • In the pedagogical condition, the experimenter said, “Look at my toy! This is how my toy works,” and demonstrated the squeak function twice (but made no mention of the other functions).
  • Many children in the pedagogical condition failed to discover even one function in addition to the squeak, while children in the other three conditions found, on average, one or two functions they had not been taught. What’s more, children in the pedagogical condition spent less time playing with the toy — less than two minutes, on average — than children in the other conditions, whose times ranged from slightly more than two minutes in the naïve condition to longer than three minutes in the baseline condition.
  • “The whole double-edged sword concept is really interesting,” says Susan Gelman, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. “In almost any domain and across different cultures, we engage in spontaneous teaching. It doesn’t have to be in the classroom, we just naturally do this with young children — we show them how things are done, point out what’s important. This study shows how sensitive children are to the kind of cues that signal teaching.” Further experiments may want to examine differences in children’s behavior across cultures, she adds.
  • the study underscores the real-world trade-offs between education and exploration, and the importance of acknowledging what is unknown even while imparting what is known. Teachers should, where possible, offer the caveat that there may be more to learn.
  • John Marr on 02 Jul 11
     
    Recent study found that if you explain "all aspects" of a toy, children are less likely to discover new uses. If you allow them to "play and experiment" they will discover new a creative uses. This should be taken into account in teaching.
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