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Glenn Hervieux

Learn Touch Typing Free - TypingClub - 2 views

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    "This online program will assist you with learning and improving your typing speed!" - check out this program for your class/school. Free and inexpensive paid versions.
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    "This online program will assist you with learning and improving your typing speed!" - check out this program for your class/school. Free and inexpensive paid versions.
Glenn Hervieux

Coding In The Classroom: 10 Tools Students Can Use To Design Apps & Video Games - - 2 views

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    "Coding In The Classroom: 10 Tools Students Can Use To Design Apps & Video Games" gives some of the best sites where students can learn code for design work. This is a must skill for students who have an interest in computer programming and developing games/apps.
Glenn Hervieux

How to: Inquiry | YouthLearn - 3 views

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    "Will you ever just walk into class and ask, "Okay, what do you want to study today?" Of course not. Inquiry-based learning is founded on students taking the lead in their own learning, but it still requires considerable planning on your part. Projects must fit into your larger program structure, goals and plans, but the students will be actively involved in planning the projects with you and asking the questions that launch their individual inquiries." In thinking about PBL and other inquiry-based learning, this post and the graphic of the inquiry process are easy to connect with.
Brendan Murphy

Monitoring your kids on Facebook? That's so 2009. - 3 views

  • much cooler after-party.
  • What sex education used to be — it's now the 'technology talk'
  • But as with anything online, each of these apps comes with serious caveats.
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  • Anyone receiving a text or photo can use their 10 seconds to capture a "screenshot,
  • "It's not anything that every parent and grandparent hasn't already seen," Harkness said. The problem, he adds, is the actions "get documented, replayed and sent around," and kids "forget how fast it moves and how far it goes."
  • some of the new social networking sites have become ripe targets for spreading malware and propagating scams.
  • Also worth noting is that almost every mobile app available collects some kind of personal data, such as a person's birthdate or the location of their phone, and shares that information with third parties for marketing purposes
  • Several consumer advocates actually recommend exposing their kids to social media sites earlier than age 12, when they're more receptive to hearing lessons about online etiquette and safety.
  • Levey links her kids' devices to her iTunes account so she's aware of any program they download.
  • Federal Trade Commission's guide to talking to kids about being online: http://1.usa.gov/PWkwfp
Jon Bunch

Multicultural Experience Enhances Creativity - 0 views

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    This site informs us about the practices of work and school exchanges and educational diversity programs to learn about creativity in a multicultural environment. The creative cognitive approach is also elaborated upon as well as other strategies to produce or enhance creativity. Scientific evidence and approaches are focused on in this article.
Jon Bunch

A Synthesis of Scholarship in Multicultural Education - 0 views

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    When planning for multicultural education in school programs, it is important to allow different conceptions of multicultural education to be expressed in the school decisionmaking process rather than to insist on one definition. Conceptions of multicultural education contain value beliefs and reflect the varying levels of understanding among people involved in the school decisionmaking process.
Lisa Noble

Why We Teach Scratch » bit by bit - 1 views

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    interesting article. Like the links to ISTE.
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