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How computer games help kids learn

Great TED video on Math and computers. 

Dr. Yong Zhao is an internationally known scholar, author, and speaker. His works focus on the implications of globalization and technology on education. He has designed schools that cultivate global competence, developed computer games for language learning, and founded research and develop institutions to explore innovative education models. He has published over 100 articles and 20 books, including Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization and World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Student

"@pbeens: I've just blogged about Google Blockly - A Great Way to Introduce Basic CS Concepts - http://t.co/0Z3f4bGY want to get into some coding. Check this out. Might see how it goes with some grade 2's

Great IWB site for math and other stuff. Simply drag the numbers and drop them on the example. Great for students to do on computers and teachers to model on IWB

A fun way to display your photos. Multipule templates for diplaying photos. Upload then save your finished image back to your computer. Fun Fun Fun

Read it, Google anything you don't understand, discuss. Great conversation starter for any maths lesson... Ok so maybe upper primary and above....

This is a great online maths activity for the advanced thinkers (if you are going to use all four cards) but allows for the not so high achievers. Deffinately going to introduce this to my upper grade 4's

This is a great online maths activity for the advanced thinkers (if you are going to use all four cards) but allows for the not so high achievers. Deffinately going to introduce this to my upper grade 4's

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Dave this ones for you ;-)

This is the google site that Peter and I put together as part of our VITTA presentation. It's got great examples of student work and planning documents etc worth bookmarking for future reference