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Vicki Davis

Chromebooks for Kids: A Parent's Guide to Setting Up Supervised Users | OMG! Chrome! - 2 views

www.omgchrome.com/ents-guide-to-supervised-users

shared by Vicki Davis on 10 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 10 Dec 13
     
    "The world wide web can be a wild place, but with the Chromebook's new Supervised Users feature parents can begin to fence in the playground." Chromebooks now allow you to set up supervised users. Here's a parent guide for setting this up perfect for those purchasing these for Christmas.
Vicki Davis

Exercise Videos For Kids | Adventure To Fitness - 5 views

adventuretofitness.com

education news fitness pe health_teacher pe_teacher

shared by Vicki Davis on 04 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 04 Feb 14
     
    A website to share with health and PE teachers with games, videos and other activities to promote fitness.
Jenny Moon

SweetSearch4me - 7 views

4me.sweetsearch.com

search engine k-8 research 4me sweetsearch searchengine

shared by Jenny Moon on 25 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Mark Moran on 20 Jul 10
     
    A curated search engine for emerging learners. The results prominently feature high quality sites created for kids.
Brendan Murphy

Don't Blame Teachers for Our Education Failures - Newsweek - 27 views

www.newsweek.com/...in-defense-of-teachers.html

shared by Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10 - Cached
  • why not copy and fund some of their parental-support programs for existing public schools?
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10
       
      Was is somthing so obvious not in every article on education reform?
  • Charter schools often receive the same amount of public funding per student as public schools, and also benefit from their ability to raise and use charitable donations.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10
       
      This I didn't know.
  • Surely, classroom teachers would have more opportunity to teach and teach well if they had enough books and study materials for all their kids
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10
       
      More of the obvious.
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  • Charter schools are not required to accept special-needs children or children with learning disabilities
  • So isn’t there a way for school systems to strengthen their professional development programs or put forth proposals for more effective teacher observation, mentoring systems or remedial teacher training, if necessary?
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10
       
      There are plenty of ways to do this, but nobody can seem to agree on the right way, besides it would cost money.
  • what the HCZ does is first recognize that the amelioration of poverty does not begin and end with an excellent education, but also requires a full belly, parental education, safety, advocacy, and the expectation that every student will succeed
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10
       
      Do we ask our schools to do too much?
  • I just can’t believe that holding only teachers accountable—and not the school systems they work for—is the fair or even the best way to improve public education.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10
       
      It's not fair, but it is easy.
Brian C. Smith

The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 15 views

www.newsweek.com/...the-creativity-crisis.html

creativity education learning article innovation psychology

shared by Brian C. Smith on 11 Jul 10 - Cached
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Jul 10
       
      If you've ever seen or heard Raif Esquith speak then you know how much he values music with young children. Watch this clip: http://www.tubechop.com/watch/79846
  • The lore of pop psychology is that creativity occurs on the right side of the brain. But we now know that if you tried to be creative using only the right side of your brain, it’d be like living with ideas perpetually at the tip of your tongue, just beyond reach
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 26 Jul 10
       
      Hello, Mr. Pink. Are you reading?
  • those who diligently practice creative activities learn to recruit their brains’ creative networks quicker and better. A lifetime of consistent habits gradually changes the neurological pattern.
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  • The home-game version of this means no longer encouraging kids to spring straight ahead to the right answer
  • The new view is that creativity is part of normal brain function.
  • “As a child, I never had an identity as a ‘creative person,’ ” Schwarzrock recalls. “But now that I know, it helps explain a lot of what I felt and went through.”
  • In China there has been widespread education reform to extinguish the drill-and-kill teaching style. Instead, Chinese schools are also adopting a problem-based learning approach.
  • fact-finding
  • problem-finding
  • Next, idea-finding
  • Bill Guinee on 13 Jul 10
     
    Very interesting article from Newsweek about how creativity works in the brain, and how it can be trained in an educational setting. It describes a "crisis" trend where creativity scores in America are decreasing.
Laura Deisley

Many Schools Teach Engineering in Early Grades - NYTimes.com - 6 views

www.nytimes.com/...14engineering.html

shared by Laura Deisley on 15 Jun 10 - Cached
  • “Just giving kids an engineering problem to solve doesn’t mean it will lead to learning,” said Janine Remillard, an associate education professor at the University of Pennsylvania who is not opposed, but believes that good teaching is essential to making any curriculum work well.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 15 Jun 10
       
      I think it goes deeper than leading to "learning" in the sense of curriculum. It's more that students are learning to learn. Far too often we assume that students actually know how to learn. We know how to plan learning experiences and disseminate information, but how often do we stop to think whether or not a student has developed the skill to learn?
    • Laura Deisley
      Laura Deisley on 23 Jan 11
       
      Good point, Brian. I think more than anything the iterative process builds the skills of a learner that are applicable far beyond whether they learn "engineering." Process matters.
  • “You’re not really learning what I would call engineering fundamentals,” he said of such programs. “You’re really learning about engineering.”
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Attention Webmasters - 21ct Century Safe Site Seal of Approval Opportunity - 15 views

Nominate your (personal, school, business) website For The Institute for Responsible Online and Cell-Phone Communications Safety Lab Seal of Approval for free! This is a limited time offer that wi...

started by EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR on 10 Jul 09 no follow-up yet
Maggie Verster

Making Health Games Fun- Kids Nutrition and Exercise Games for Health - 15 views

www.playnormous.com/games.cfm

nutrition health exercise school2.0 games

shared by Maggie Verster on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 02 Oct 09
     
    Health games don't have to be boring. Download our gameplay guides, classroom activities, worksheets, and student assessments.
  • Maggie Verster on 02 Oct 09
     
    Health games don't have to be boring. Download our gameplay guides, classroom activities, worksheets, and student assessments.
Megan Black

PEEP and the Big Wide World: Interactive Games - 10 views

www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/games

interactive kindergarten preschool activities kids smartboard

shared by Megan Black on 24 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Megan Black on 24 Aug 10
     
    Fun and funny games for younger students. I found this thanks to Colin Gallagher.
Ed Webb

What's Wrong With the American University System - Culture - The Atlantic - 6 views

www.theatlantic.com/...60458

teaching education US USA opinion analysis college university

shared by Ed Webb on 29 Jul 10 - Cached
  • it's awfully difficult to say, "Here's knowledge we don't need!" It sounds like book burning, doesn't it? What we'd say is that on the scale of priorities, we find undergraduate teaching to be more important than all the research being done.
  • Those people were teachers, in the true sense of the word. They were just as knowledgeable about their fields as anyone, but they had playful, imaginative minds. They could go on TV—Carl Sagan could talk about science, John Kenneth Galbraith could talk about economics. They weren't dumbing down their subjects. In fact, they were actually using their brains. The more you rely on lingo—"regressive discourses," "performativity"—the less you have to really think. You can just throw terms around and say, "Look, Ma, I'm a theorist!"
  • We believe the current criteria for admissions—particularly the SAT—are just so out of whack. It's like No Child Left Behind. It really is. It's one of the biggest crimes that's ever been perpetrated. I mean, you took the SAT! It's multiple choice, a minute and quarter per question. What does it really test? It tests how good you are at taking tests! At a big university like Berkeley, where there are going to be 30,000 applications, here's what they do. On top of each folder, without even reading through it, they write your SAT score. That's the first winnowing. So the 1600s get looked at first, and then down from there.
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  • One of the things that I find scariest at the moment is that so many bright people have no conception at all of life for any people but those in the upper middle class and above. They live a sheltered suburban life, go to college with other sheltered suburban kids, and assume that everyone's life has been like theirs. Some years ago a relative of mine graduated from Cambridge. I asked what his classmates would be doing after graduation and he said "management consulting." These were very bright people with zero experience in the business world who had spent the last three years barely able to manage their binge drinking, let alone manage any business. I'd trust the high school grad who rose through the ranks way more than these bright young things.
  • www.highereducationquestionmark.com
Ted Sakshaug

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages - 7 views

www.makebeliefscomix.com

comics writing web2.0 literacy tools education comic fun

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 10 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Carl Bogardu on 10 Aug 10
     
    Make your own comic, online educational comic generator.
  • Ted Sakshaug on 10 Dec 10
     
    create comics, multi-lingual option.
William Gaskins

My StoryMaker : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 20 views

www.carnegielibrary.org/...storymaker

storytelling storymaker web2.0 digitalstorytelling animation carnegie

shared by William Gaskins on 14 Sep 10 - Cached
  • My StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you! Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. You cannot go back
  • Fred Delventhal on 14 Sep 10
     
    "My StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you! Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. You cannot go back and edit a story once you have ended it but, if you click "yes" when asked to share it with others, you can print it out again by entering the magic number it gives you in the box on the right. Since lack of space forces us to delete story files older than 1 month, please save the .pdf file that prints to your own computer."
  • William Gaskins on 06 Apr 11
     
    "My StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you! Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. You cannot go back and edit a story once you have ended it but, if you click "yes" when asked to share it with others, you can print it out again by entering the magic number it gives you in the box on the right. Since we periodically have to delete the older story files, please save the .pdf file that prints to your own computer."
Kay Oddone

Stop Bullying Now! - 17 views

stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/kids

bullying cyberbullying internetsafety

shared by Kay Oddone on 17 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Sandy Kendell on 17 Sep 10
     
    Website aimed at younger students.
  • Kay Oddone on 21 Sep 10
     
    A useful site for younger primary students.
  • Kay Oddone on 21 Sep 10
     
    This website will be fantastic for your assignment on bullying.
Jeff Richardson

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Facebook Photos: Your Delete Doesn't Mean "Delete" - 13 views

coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/...s-your-delete-doesnt-mean.html

shared by Jeff Richardson on 14 Oct 10 - No Cached
    • Jeff Richardson
      Jeff Richardson on 14 Oct 10
       
      And that's exactly why we need to be telling our kids the importance of being good digital citizens!  The issue isn't with sites like Facebook keeping inappropriate content, it's PEOPLE posting it in the first place.  
  • Are you talking to students about the un-deletability of files?
Brendan Murphy

How to fix our schools - 4 views

www.epi.org/...ib286

schools how fix education administrator all_teachers

shared by Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Listen, I love basketball. But the smartest kid in the school…should be getting as much attention as the basketball star. That’s a change that we’ve got to initiate in our community.”
  • school systems will have to develop better ways of identifying good and bad teachers.
  • In addition to teacher quality, they should pay attention to school leadership, curriculum improvement, and school organization.
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