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Inchy Picnic - 7 views

www.fuelthebrain.com/...play.php maths measure measurement inches games
shared by Martin Burrett on 08 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 08 Mar 12
     
    A picnic themed measuring game. Move your ant around the course by inputting the inches to travel. Play full screen at http://www.fuelthebrain.com/Game/swfs/antWalk.swf http://j.mp/xNy0My http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
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Color World Origins - 2 views

www.coolmath-games.com/...ColorWorldOrigins_Coolmath.swf maths games angles logic
shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Mar 12
     
    A superb logic game from http://www.coolmath-games.com. Change the colour of the blocks by shooting coloured balls out of a cannon. But it's not always that simple! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Educational+Games
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Angry Birds Rio Online - 3 views

www.myhappygames.com/...Angry-Birds-Rio-Online.html maths physics games
shared by Martin Burrett on 07 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 07 Jun 12
     
    Angry Birds is a wonderful game for teaching all sorts of maths and physics. Play an online version of Angry Birds Rio. Play full screen at http://www.physicsgames.com/flash/angry-birds-rio.swf http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Educational+Games
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Too Noisy - 7 views

toonoisyapp.com ipad app classroom management behaviour management noise
shared by Martin Burrett on 30 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 30 Jul 13
     
    This is a great simple Apple device app to help you reach an appropriate level of volume in your classroom. Watch the gauge rise and the background change as the volume increases. You can adjust the sensitivity for the situation/activity. The app is supported by ads, but these only appear as you start the app. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/too-noisy/id499844023 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Management+%26+Rewards
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PinYinPal - 3 views

pinyinpal.com Mandarin Pinyin Chinese app ipad
shared by Martin Burrett on 29 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 29 Jul 13
     
    This is a great game app for learning Chinese Pinyin, simplified Chinese and Mandarin. Play the Scrabble-like game by arranging your tiles on the board to form Pinyin words. Choose a character and the correct meaning to gain extra points. Play against friends on the web. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinyinpal-only-free-mandarin/id573873383 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Mandarin+%26+Chinese+culture
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GoClass - 10 views

www.goclass.com/...index.aspx lesson curation classroom
shared by Martin Burrett on 18 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 18 Nov 13
     
    This is a wonderful site for designing lesson plans and collating resources to push out to an iPad app for students to access and interact with. You can put together websites, videos, audio, documents, images and instructions. You can make quizzes for your students to answer to provide you with instant feedback about how they are doing. Your students can make their own notes about the lesson from within the app. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/id467088232 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Planning+%26+Assessment
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Sketch Nation - 7 views

sketchnation.com game builder games art sketch
shared by Martin Burrett on 18 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 18 Nov 13
     
    This is a great iPad app which lets users design and play simple games by drawing the character and backgrounds. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sketch-nation-studio/id506337826 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
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Sounding Board - 3 views

www.ablenetinc.com/...SoundingBoard ipad communication app SEN
shared by Martin Burrett on 16 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 16 Dec 13
     
    This is a useful choosing board Apple app to help with communication. Make your boards using the preloaded images or take photos to make your own. Record a word or phrase which is played as each button is pushed. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/soundingboard/id390532167. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Special+Educational+Needs
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GamePress - 10 views

gamepressapp.com games design game builder coding
shared by Martin Burrett on 02 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 02 Nov 13
     
    This is a great iPad app which lets you make amazing games with the minimum of coding experience. Use the pre-made characters and props or make your own using your camera or gallery images. Control the behaviour of each item to make some intricate games with a flick of your finger. Your designs are only limited by your imagination. Share your games with others at the click of a button. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/GamePress/id637370800?mt=8 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
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Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...07mind.html learning cognition neuroscience education testing psychology
shared by Ed Webb on 06 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • instead of sticking to one study location, simply alternating the room where a person studies improves retention. So does studying distinct but related skills or concepts in one sitting, rather than focusing intensely on a single thing. “We have known these principles for some time, and it’s intriguing that schools don’t pick them up, or that people don’t learn them by trial and error,” said Robert A. Bjork, a psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Instead, we walk around with all sorts of unexamined beliefs about what works that are mistaken.”
  • The brain makes subtle associations between what it is studying and the background sensations it has at the time, the authors say, regardless of whether those perceptions are conscious. It colors the terms of the Versailles Treaty with the wasted fluorescent glow of the dorm study room, say; or the elements of the Marshall Plan with the jade-curtain shade of the willow tree in the backyard. Forcing the brain to make multiple associations with the same material may, in effect, give that information more neural scaffolding.
  • Cognitive scientists do not deny that honest-to-goodness cramming can lead to a better grade on a given exam. But hurriedly jam-packing a brain is akin to speed-packing a cheap suitcase, as most students quickly learn — it holds its new load for a while, then most everything falls out. “With many students, it’s not like they can’t remember the material” when they move to a more advanced class, said Henry L. Roediger III, a psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis. “It’s like they’ve never seen it before.”
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  • cognitive scientists see testing itself — or practice tests and quizzes — as a powerful tool of learning, rather than merely assessment. The process of retrieving an idea is not like pulling a book from a shelf; it seems to fundamentally alter the way the information is subsequently stored, making it far more accessible in the future.
  • “The idea is that forgetting is the friend of learning,” said Dr. Kornell. “When you forget something, it allows you to relearn, and do so effectively, the next time you see it.”
  • An hour of study tonight, an hour on the weekend, another session a week from now: such so-called spacing improves later recall, without requiring students to put in more overall study effort or pay more attention, dozens of studies have found.
  • “Testing not only measures knowledge but changes it,” he says — and, happily, in the direction of more certainty, not less.
  • “Testing has such bad connotation; people think of standardized testing or teaching to the test,” Dr. Roediger said. “Maybe we need to call it something else, but this is one of the most powerful learning tools we have.”
  • The harder it is to remember something, the harder it is to later forget. This effect, which researchers call “desirable difficulty,”
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Word Game on most commonly Misspelled Words | Dictionary.com - 16 views

dictionary.reference.com/...missspell spelling game dictionary.com vocabulary spellingbee resource online
shared by Kelly Faulkner on 07 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Kelly Faulkner on 07 Dec 10
     
    this suits secondary students. is sponsored by dictionary.com, so american spelling
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The First Unofficial Guide to Dropbox [Save PDF or Read Online] - 25 views

www.makeuseof.com/...pocket-dropbox-manual-download dropbox guide howto makeuseof
shared by Kelly Faulkner on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
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  • Kelly Faulkner on 22 Nov 10
     
    a guide to using the free online storage at dropbox.com.  if you don't have an account yet, here is an invite:  http://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE3MDMxNTE5?src=7 you can increase the basic storage by inviting other users. i have all my school files stored there, including all video! it's a great service :O)
  • Tero Toivanen on 23 Nov 10
     
    This is useful... Thanks for sharing!
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Brainstorm: Junk Analysis of Higher Ed by the 'Times' - Chronicle.com - 0 views

chronicle.com/...article chronicle.com academic labor
shared by Ed Webb on 10 Mar 09 - Cached
  • This isn’t good for anyone’s education: The only virtue of the arrangement is its cheapness, and that cheapness hasn’t lowered tuition; it’s simply served to provide money pots for high-rolling administrators to spend on favored projects and the expansion of the business curriculum. It’s also created a need to expand the ranks of management to train and supervise the constantly-churning mass of student and other casual workers.
  • journalists are living the same permatemping as the faculty, under the same quality management gutting the public sphere under both Republicans and Democrats
  • four decades of student casualization
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  • What about Joel Westheimer, who they illegally fired for supporting the grad student union, despite having the support of his entire discipline? Or any of the grad students themselves, who are doing better analysis of their employment than Stimpson.
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Classroom 2.0 LIVE! - 0 views

live.classroom20.com/calendar.html classroom2.0 calendar
shared by Kelly Faulkner on 20 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 20 Mar 09
     
    Keep up with Classroom 2.0 LIve conversations. I actually have this as part of my Google Calendar so I can keep up with it. This week: "This Saturday, Mar. 21st, Peggy George, Kim Caise, and Lorna Costantini will be hosting another Classroom 2.0 LIVE web meeting. Classroom 2.0 "LIVE" meetings are an opportunity to gather with other members of the community in real-time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing, and sometimes even video. (Special thanks to our sponsor, Elluminate, for providing the service that allows us to do this!) A Google Calendar of shows is available at http://live.classroom20.com/calendar.html. The topic this Saturday is: "Podcasting". Our special guest will be Kevin Honeycutt, founder of the "Podstock" Ning. Our Newbie Question of the Week will be: "What is a podcast and how can I use it to support my teaching?" We hope you'll join us to share your ideas and questions. Links for more information can be found at http://live.classroom20.com. We strive to make our shows beginner-friendly and if you've never participated in a live web meeting don't be afraid to come and take a peek at the show's format. We love newbies to join us and 'dip their toes in' the conversations until you feel comfortable enough to "jump in the conversations with both feet"! We want to encourage "experienced Web 2.0 users" to join us by contributing and extending the conversation by sharing real-life examples and tips/suggestions. Date: Sat., Mar. 21, 2009 Time: 9:00am PST/10:00am MST/11:00am CST/12:00pm EST Other time zones link and a link to the actual meeting room can be found at http://live.classroom20.com/. Location: Elluminate https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.97A21EB084879D9442B4EDF2437E3D"
  • Vicki Davis on 20 Mar 09
     
    Great resources and free PD. This calendar lists all types of activities and webinars for you in one place.
  • Kelly Faulkner on 13 Nov 09
     
    the classroom 2.0 calendar, for people (like me!) who have a busy teaching schedule, thereby (haha) getting days/time zones confused :O)
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In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...25human.html education humanities university academics college
shared by Felix Gryffeth on 27 Feb 09 - Cached
  • The study of the humanities evolved during the 20th century “to focus almost entirely on personal intellectual development,” said Richard M. Freeland, the Massachusetts commissioner of higher education. “But what we haven’t paid a lot of attention to is how students can put those abilities effectively to use in the world. We’ve created a disjunction between the liberal arts and sciences and our role as citizens and professionals.”Mr. Freeland is part of what he calls a revolutionary movement to close the “chasm in higher education between the liberal arts and sciences and professional programs.” The Association of American Colleges and Universities recently issued a report arguing the humanities should abandon the “old Ivory Tower view of liberal education” and instead emphasize its practical and economic value.
  • Derek Bok, a former president of Harvard and the author of several books on higher education, argues, “The humanities has a lot to contribute to the preparation of students for their vocational lives.” He said he was referring not only to writing and analytical skills but also to the type of ethical issues raised by new technology like stem-cell research. But he added: “There’s a lot more to a liberal education than improving the economy. I think that is one of the worst mistakes that policy makers often make — not being able to see beyond that.” Anthony T. Kronman, a professor of law at Yale and the author of “Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life,” goes further. Summing up the benefits of exploring what’s called “a life worth living” in a consumable sound bite is not easy, Mr. Kronman said. But “the need for my older view of the humanities is, if anything, more urgent today,” he added, referring to the widespread indictment of greed, irresponsibility and fraud that led to the financial meltdown. In his view this is the time to re-examine “what we care about and what we value,” a problem the humanities “are extremely well-equipped to address.”
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Postyourtest.com raises ethical concerns (eSchoolNews) - 0 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...index.cfm cheating ethics postyourtest postyourtest.com testing
shared by Jeff Johnson on 11 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 11 Aug 08
     
    Experts say sites like Postyourtest.com could change the way professors assemble their tests, aware that previous versions of their questions might be available in cyberspace.
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Why Dell.com (was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm - O'Reilly Radar - 0 views

radar.oreilly.com/...ot-com-is-more-enterprise.html digitalcitizenship ideastorm web2
shared by Keith Hamon on 29 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Keith Hamon on 29 Sep 08
     
    Why Dell.com (was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm
  • Keith Hamon on 29 Sep 08
     
    Teaches that Web 2.0 is more than just slick web-based software & sites. For O'Reilly, who coined the term, it is harnessing network effects, collective intelligence, to enrich the experience between the user and the organization.
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ELT notes: Teacher Interpreters - 0 views

eltnotes.blogspot.com/...teacher-interpreters.html blc08 ceraso elt notes fisher kuropatwa
shared by anonymous on 18 Jul 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 18 Jul 08
     
    Everything New is Old Again Living and Teaching in Accelerating Times Presenters: Darren Kuropatwa Clarence Fisher http://adifference.blogspot.com/ Preso info http://dkuropatwablc08.pbwiki.com/Everything+New+is+Old+Again
  • anonymous on 18 Jul 08
     
    Claudia notes on a presentation by Kuropatwa abd Fisher at BLC08.
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"Unprecedented Force for Change"-Dan Tapscott's Keynote - Horizon Project 2008 - 0 views

horizonproject2008.ning.com/...show edu_trends education technology
shared by Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Dan Tapscott, Horizon Project 2008’s keynote speaker, gave me insight and inspiration for the project. His knowledgeable comments on the baby boom generation were incredible and it amazed me that he decided to make his entire living on the study of the digital generation, the generation that I am a part of.
  • I am a part of the generation that is an “unprecedented force for change,” and we are actively inducing and creating change that will be beneficial and relevant to the world today and tomorrow.
  • I agree that technology must be at the center of this change in order for it to be effective.
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  • Enter technology; students can learn from each other by collaboration through technological advances such as wikis, blogs, You Tube, Facebook, and projects such as Flat Classroom and Horizon.
  • I really agree with both of what you two are saying, but my question remains, (in an attempt not to sound too cynical): how is this going to happen? I know that Dan Tapscott seeks to view change in the education system, but my question is, how is this going to happen?
  • with our advanced, technological world, we must not only acknowledge the new technologies emerging but we must gain knowledge on how to use them.
  • f school became an interactive place where both students and teachers put their two cents in: teachers teaching students, students teaching students, teachers sharing ideas and students executing these ideas-school would be great. If we all focus on change and ways to make interactive learning better we could reach so many people! Not only can we interact with each other but we can raise awareness and pose solutions on the many issues regarding education.
  • Teachers are no longer “transmitters of data,” but active participants in the student’s learning process.
  • but the real issue is, in so many places education is rigid and all about regurgitation of information. How do we look past that? Is it a mindset that we need to learn how to transgress, or is it a gradually changing aspect?
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 08
     
    Students talking about trends on the Horizon report are amazing me!
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Rise Of The iGeneration: Don't Call Me, Text Me | Online Media Gazette - 13 views

omgzam.com/...eneration-dont-call-me-text-me digital_citizenship genx netgen igen texting cellphone
shared by Sandy Kendell on 21 Feb 10 - Cached
  • According to Nielsen Mobile, in the first quarter of 2009, the average U.S teenager made and received an average of 191 phone calls and sent and received 2,899 text messages every month. By the third quarter, the number of texts jumped to a whopping 3,146 messages per month. This is equivalent to more than 10 text messages per hour.
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 21 Feb 10
       
      Are they communicating with each other less?  or more?  Research seems to indicate that kids are using this hyper-connectedness to actually enrich their personal relationships, not isolate themselves.
  • We are in the midst of four distinct generations: Baby Boomers (born 1946-64), Generation X (1965-79), Net Generation (1980-89) and the new iGeneration (born in the 1990s and beyond). The “i” designation represents the “individualized” nature of their media.
    • Sandy Kendell
      Sandy Kendell on 22 Feb 10
       
      This is one of the most specific categorizations of generations I've seen. I wonder what the writer's source is?
  • David Warlick on 21 Feb 10
     
    According to Nielsen Mobile, in the first quarter of 2009, the average U.S teenager made and received an average of 191 phone calls and sent and received 2,899 text messages every month. By the third quarter, the number of texts jumped to a whopping 3,146 messages per month. This is equivalent to more than 10 text messages per hour.
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