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AgreeDo - Meetings with Results! - 5 views

www.agreedo.com meeting collaboration agenda minutes
shared by Martin Burrett on 26 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 26 Jan 12
     
    Are your meetings disorganised and always over run? This is a good little site for creating agendas and minutes that will keep everything in one place for your staff to work on together. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
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What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind? - WSJ.com - 19 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 05 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Adolescence has always been troubled, but for reasons that are somewhat mysterious, puberty is now kicking in at an earlier and earlier age. A leading theory points to changes in energy balance as children eat more and move less.
  • Recent studies in the neuroscientist B.J. Casey's lab at Cornell University suggest that adolescents aren't reckless because they underestimate risks, but because they overestimate rewards—or, rather, find rewards more rewarding than adults do. The reward centers of the adolescent brain are much more active than those of either children or adults. Think about the incomparable intensity of first love, the never-to-be-recaptured glory of the high-school basketball championship. What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers. In a recent study by the developmental psychologist Laurence Steinberg at Temple University, teenagers did a simulated high-risk driving task while they were lying in an fMRI brain-imaging machine. The reward system of their brains lighted up much more when they thought another teenager was watching what they did—and they took more risks.
  • What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. Fortunately, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists are starting to explain the foundations of that weirdness.
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  • contemporary children have very little experience with the kinds of tasks that they'll have to perform as grown-ups. Children have increasingly little chance to practice even basic skills like cooking and caregiving. Contemporary adolescents and pre-adolescents often don't do much of anything except go to school. Even the paper route and the baby-sitting job have largely disappeared.
  • first with the industrial revolution and then even more dramatically with the information revolution, children have come to take on adult roles later and later. Five hundred years ago, Shakespeare knew that the emotionally intense combination of teenage sexuality and peer-induced risk could be tragic—witness "Romeo and Juliet." But, on the other hand, if not for fate, 13-year-old Juliet would have become a wife and mother within a year or two.
  • This control system depends much more on learning. It becomes increasingly effective throughout childhood and continues to develop during adolescence and adulthood, as we gain more experience. You come to make better decisions by making not-so-good decisions and then correcting them. You get to be a good planner by making plans, implementing them and seeing the results again and again. Expertise comes with experience.
  • Wide-ranging, flexible and broad learning, the kind we encourage in high-school and college, may actually be in tension with the ability to develop finely-honed, controlled, focused expertise in a particular skill, the kind of learning that once routinely took place in human societies. For most of our history, children have started their internships when they were seven, not 27
  • experience shapes the brain. People often think that if some ability is located in a particular part of the brain, that must mean that it's "hard-wired" and inflexible. But, in fact, the brain is so powerful precisely because it is so sensitive to experience. It's as true to say that our experience of controlling our impulses make the prefrontal cortex develop as it is to say that prefrontal development makes us better at controlling our impulses. Our social and cultural life shapes our biology.
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Random Words - 5 views

muse.dillfrog.com/random_words words vocabulary English Literacy
shared by Martin Burrett on 31 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 31 Jan 12
     
    This is a superb random word generator split into nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Great for infusing a little magic into creative writing sessions. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
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Monster Bus - 10 views

mathsnacks.org/...MonsterBus.swf number bonds decimals maths flash games
shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Mar 12
     
    A fun game which practises maths skills, including number bonds to 10 with decimals by driving the monster bus around the town to take little monsters to school. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
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Oscar nominations: Complete list of of 86th annual Academy Award nominees | Fox News - 1 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 16 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Jan 14
     
    I'm officially clueless and haven't even seen one of the nominations for Best Picture. Here's the full list of Oscar Nominations for those of you (like me) who need to get a little pop culture into your life. These are the things many of our kids talk about so they become important to me. Nominees for best Picture: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Her, Nebraska, Philomena, 12 Years a Slave, and the Wolf of Wall Street. Many of these are a bit dark (understatement) and thus may not be something I choose to watch, but we can at least be familiar with the themes and what they are.
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Microsoft to extend Windows XP anti-malware updates one year | ZDNet - 1 views

www.zdnet.com/re-updates-one-year-7000025215 education education_trends news edu_trends techintegrator administrator
shared by Vicki Davis on 16 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Jan 14
     
    OK. I think this will be great news for many schools who are still clinging to Windows XP. Microsoft will keep supplying anti-malware updates to Windows XP until april 15, 2014. The March 2013 date caused an outcry among many and we've been working hard to update all the XP machines with extra RAM so they could go to Windows 7. But with the machines working so well on XP many of us wonder why we should dispose of machines that work so well especially in cash crunched times. Take your time - you've got a little longer although for us in the US if they'd go through June 2015 it means we can get 2 more school years out of XP machines. In a sign of the times, it can make all the difference between some kids using technology and some not.
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Robot Turtles - 6 views

www.thinkfun.com/robotturtles education news programming coding enrichment toddler
shared by Vicki Davis on 04 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 04 Feb 14
     
    A coding game for little kids. I don't know about teaching them to program before they learn to read, as it claims, but I do know that many are ready and moving head to teach their kids to code and that is awesome.
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Book Review: The Little Book of The Autism Spectrum | UKEdChat.com - Supporting the #UK... - 3 views

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shared by C CC on 14 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • C CC on 14 Feb 14
     
    A great book full of information for those wanting to understand Autism
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Crafty Way to Inspire Little Coders | UKEdChat.com - Supporting the #UKEdChat Education... - 7 views

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shared by C CC on 07 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • C CC on 07 Mar 14
     
    A great kickstarter project - Hope it gets funding to take off
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blink(1), the USB RGB LED by ThingM - Kickstarter - 6 views

www.kickstarter.com/...blink1-the-usb-rgb-led education productivity news internet_of_things
shared by Vicki Davis on 25 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Sep 13
     
    Cool little light that can show various colors to indicate things that have happened. This was funded on kickstarter and I noticed it being added to ifttt.com as a channel. So, for example, if you have a big download and want to be notified when it is done - or if you want to be notified when a certain person (Grandma) logs into skype but you don't want to have to log in or look at the screen - this USB RGB light will light in the color you wish. There are so many cool applications for this as we move into the "internet of things."
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OPINION: We Need Coding in Schools, but Where are the Teachers? | EdSurge News - 5 views

www.edsurge.com/...ols-but-where-are-the-teachers computer science education news hourofcode
shared by Vicki Davis on 13 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 13 Dec 13
     
    This is very true. Online tutorials can only get us so far. This is why I'm learning Scratch and brushing up on Java. I may even have to learn Python before I'm done. We need Computer Science but who will teach it? If we only rely on videos, it would be like asking kids to teach themselves math using Khan Academy without a teacher who knew how to work the problems. "The vast majority of my students do very well on their first hour or two of coding using structured lessons, but when they start to write code for a new problem, or hit the first set of bugs, they get frustrated and need help. Sometimes, all they need is a hint, a pointer to a similar problem, or my assurance that they can solve it. In some cases, they need someone to just re-explain it a little differently."
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Microsoft pulls Windows RT 8.1 update from the Store | ZDNet - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 21 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 21 Oct 13
     
    FYI. Microsoft Pulled the Windows 8.1 update after it "bricked" some devices. So, if you're trying to update Windows, wait a little while longer.
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Giza 3D - Dassault Systèmes - 2 views

giza3d.3ds.com/#discover history egyptians egypt 3D tour guide pyramid Ancient Egypt
shared by Martin Burrett on 08 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 08 Dec 13
     
    A truly stunning 3D reconstruction and tour of the Giza pyramids, the Sphinx and other structures. Watch a guided tour around and inside the structures at various points in history. You can even view the site in full 3D. The site may take a little time to load. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/History
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Photoshop Battle of the Day: Menacing Girl Holding an Owl Gets The Reddit Treatment - C... - 2 views

cheezburger.com/...-owl-gets-the-reddit-treatment education photoshop graphic design edu_trends
shared by Vicki Davis on 02 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 02 Oct 15
     
    There is a Photoshop group on subreddit. They often take pics and do all kinds of things with them. Of course, I hope these don't "get back" to those who are the topics like this viral photoshop of a little girl with an owl. And yet, this is also a concept we can apply when we teach PhotoShop.
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Online Learning in the Traditional Classroom | Edutopia - 8 views

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shared by Sandy Kendell on 24 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Sandy Kendell on 24 Aug 10
     
    A little village of providers of free online lessons is sprouting up. Many are video-based; all are free. MIT's OpenCourseWare helped launch this effort in 2001 and now offers 1,900 full, free courses online. The idea, simply and democratically, is to use the power of the Web to spread knowledge around the world.
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Princeton U. Decides to Shut Down Online Collection of Policy Videos - Wired Campus - T... - 3 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 28 Jul 10 - Cached
  • The University Channel Web site will shut down on November 3
  • Princeton (and other universities) can upload these videos onto their channel on YouTube (regular and .edu), which would actually make them available to a wider audience. They can also leverage their other social media channels (e.g., Twitter, Facebook and even their website) to promote the videos periodically. Rather than viewing this as a loss, I see this as a pragmatic, digital-era cost-saving measure that can also increase the opportunities to share this valuable content.
  • Articles like this aren't very helpful unless they provide readers key data, such as the yearly budget for running this sort of operation, and the traffic the service generated. Other information, such as why there are budget problems would be helpful.If there was little interest in this service, then paying for servers and bandwidth makes little sense. On the other hand, if there was a lot of interest, then finding alternative funding would seem to be something that Admins should be requested to do.Youtube is getting about 5B hits a month, so somebody is watching video out there.
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A Framework to Articulate the Impact of ICT on Learning in Schools (PDF) - 9 views

www.det.wa.edu.au/...impactframe.pdf framework school2.0 ICT in education learning research
shared by Maggie Verster on 03 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 03 Sep 10
     
    The literature review unequivocally found that it is not possible to provide a meaningful framework to describe or measure the direct impact of ICT on student learning per se. Most educational researchers view media comparison studies as of little value, misleading, and not generalisable. Where such studies have been conducted it has not been possible to identify a purely ICT effect disentangled from other elements of the learning environment. Most educational researchers would view such disentangling as counterproductive. Further, it has become increasingly difficult to measure student learning as more is understood of the complexities of learning. However, this review has identified significant impacts of the use of ICT on students, learning environments, teachers and pedagogy, schools provision of ICT capacity, and school and system organization, policy and practice. These are presented here as five dimensions
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The LA Times: Practicing Educational Research without a License - Living in Dialogue - ... - 9 views

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shared by anonymous on 28 Aug 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 28 Aug 10
     
    The heavy focus on measuring teacher quality can give the false impression that teacher quality is everything. Study after study, however, has shown that poverty is a stronger factor than teacher quality in predicting achievement. The best teachers in the world will have limited impact when children are undernourished, have high levels of lead in their bodies, live in noisy and dangerous environments, get too little sleep, and have no access to reading material.
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danah boyd | apophenia » "Bullying" Has Little Resonance with Teenagers - 17 views

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shared by Gary Bertoia on 18 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Empathy, Not Technology, Is Core of the Problem and the Solution
  • We won’t know how to stop bullying and no amount of legislation requiring education is going to do squat until we actually find intervention mechanisms that work.
  • Dave Truss on 18 Nov 10
     
    Empathy, Not Technology, Is Core of the Problem and the Solution My thoughts here: http://daily-ink.davidtruss.com/empathy-not-technology-is-core-of-the-problem
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