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16 Of The Best Opening Lines From Children's Books - 4 views

www.buzzfeed.com/...ines-from-childrens-books-9npd education literature kidlit
shared by Vicki Davis on 11 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 11 Dec 13
     
    Literature teachers will love these book openings.
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News: Students Excel at Problem Solving - 4 views

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shared by C CC on 03 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • C CC on 03 Apr 14
     
    OECD Figures
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Kahoot! | Game-based blended learning & classroom response system - 3 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 31 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 31 Oct 13
     
    This has got to be the funkiest instant poll, quiz, response site around. Create questions, quizzes and polls with optional uploaded images for participants to complete in real time from a computer or mobile device. The users access the quiz by using a pin code. The 'question master' gets the data back instantly and it is stored on the site or can be downloaded. This is superb for checking the knowledge of children in your class or that your audience is still awake. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 14
     
    Got this email from a teacher Hi Vicki- I love your blog, tweets and contributions to flipboard! I am a teacher at a local school district charter high school and appreciate your zeal for teaching and learning. I am not sure if you have heard about Kahoot! but wanted to ask you to check it out by following it on Twitter or watching a few youtube videos of Kahoot in action. I have no financial investment in it or any reason for recommending it other than how much we are enjoying using it at our school and how valuable a tool I believe it to be. Questions can be entered by students or teachers and pictures can be uploaded to each question to add visual appeal. The students can use computers, smart phones, tablets and don't have to have an account- they just log in to kahoot.it and then join the interactive quiz. Everyone gets so involved and passionate and it is great for reviews before tests or for supplemental instruction. The results can be viewed on a spreadsheet and provide formative assessments. It can be used for any ages and any subjects. I am so jazzed about this great new tool and hope you will be too. https://getkahoot.com Kathryn Lewallen Payson, AZ Payson Center for Success High School
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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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shared by Bill Montana on 11 May 14 - No Cached
  • Since December, 20,000 teachers from kindergarten through 12th grade have introduced coding lessons, according to Code.org, a group backed by the tech industry that offers free curriculums. In addition, some 30 school districts, including New York City and Chicago, have agreed to add coding classes in the fall, mainly in high schools but in lower grades, too. And policy makers in nine states have begun awarding the same credits for computer science classes that they do for basic math and science courses, rather than treating them as electives.
  • coding looks less like an extracurricular activity and more like a basic life skill, one that might someday lead to a great job or even instant riches.
  • But the momentum for early coding comes with caveats, too. It is not clear that teaching basic computer science in grade school will beget future jobs or foster broader creativity and logical thinking, as some champions of the movement are projecting. And particularly for younger children, Dr. Soloway said, the activity is more like a video game — better than simulated gunplay, but not likely to impart actual programming skills.
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  • “There’s a big demand for these skills in both the tech sector and across all sectors,” said Britt Neuhaus, the director of special projects at the office of innovation for New York City schools.
  • Then, in 2013, came Code.org, which borrowed basic Scratch ideas and aimed to spread the concept among schools and policy makers. Computer programming should be taught in every school, said Hadi Partovi, the founder of Code.org and a former executive at Microsoft. He called it as essential as “learning about gravity or molecules, electricity or photosynthesis.”
  • Bill Montana on 11 May 14
     
    NYT article on coding movement, focusing on Mill Valley, CA. Coding should be taught in all schools.
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DiigoNotes - 7 Skills Schools Should be Teaching Them - 44 views

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shared by Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10 - No Cached
  • not just a Powerpoint, eh
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10
       
      Really I'd be happy if my students could use powerpoint.
  • This article is adapted from his book, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach The New Survival Skills Our Children Need—and What We Can Do About It (New York: Basic Books, 2008)
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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
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      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.
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Kerlan Children's Literature Research Collection, University of Minnesota  - ... - 8 views

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shared by Kim Yaris on 22 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Kim Yaris on 22 Sep 10
     
    Outstanding video of Kate DiCamillo speaking about her experiences being a writer and reflecting on her writing process. About 10 minutes long but worth watching.
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Flavored Milk: Nutrition Explorations - 4 views

www.nutritionexplorations.org/...schoolmilk_flavored.asp
shared by Ginger Lewman on 10 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • While there are some added sugars, flavored milk drinkers don't have higher intakes of added sugars or total fats than children who do not consume flavored milk.
    • Ginger Lewman
      Ginger Lewman on 10 Sep 10
       
      What the heck is THAT double-speak? 
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Building an Internet Culture - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 24 Mar 09 - Cached
  • ten conclusions that might guide a country's development of a culturally appropriate Internet policy
  • Do not spend vast sums of money to buy machinery that you are going to set down on top of existing dysfunctional institutions. The Internet, for example, will not fix your schools. Perhaps the Internet can be part of a much larger and more complicated plan for fixing your schools, but simply installing an Internet connection will almost surely be a waste of money.
  • Learning how to use the Internet is primarily a matter of institutional arrangements, not technical skills
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  • Build Internet civil society. Find those people in every sector of society that want to use the Internet for positive social purposes, introduce them to one another, and connect them to their counterparts in other countries around the world. Numerous organizations in other countries can help with this.
  • Conduct extensive, structured analysis of the technical and cultural environment. Include the people whose work will actually be affected. A shared analytical process will help envision how the technology will fit into the whole way of life around it, and the technology will have a greater chance of actually being used.
  • For children, practical experience in organizing complicated social events, for example theater productions, is more important than computer skills. The Internet can be a powerful tool for education if it is integrated into a coherent pedagogy. But someone who has experience with the social skills of organizing will immediately comprehend the purpose of the Internet, and will readily acquire the technical skills when the time comes
  • Machinery does not reform society, repair institutions, build social networks, or produce a democratic culture. People must do those things, and the Internet is simply one tool among many. Find talented people and give them the tools they need. When they do great things, contribute to your society's Internet culture by publicizing their ideas.
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New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development - MacArthur Foundation - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 09 Mar 09 - Cached
  • parents and their children came together around gaming or shared digital media projects, where both kids and adults brought expertise to the table.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 09 Mar 09
       
      And wouldn't it be great if teachers and students could interact in the same way? Some of us do, of course, or at least try to.
  • an effort to inject grounded research into the conversation about the future of learning in a digital world.
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Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies - 0 views

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shared by Jeremy Davis on 16 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Jeremy Davis on 16 Jan 09
     
    Government Report 2008
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Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscien... - 0 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...ng-parents-neuroscientist.html socialmedia school2.0 article
shared by Maggie Verster on 24 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 24 Feb 09
     
    Alarmist article? Research evidence?
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