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Survey: Teens' Cell Phones Indispensable - CBS News - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 25 Jun 09 - Cached
  • The wireless trade association CTIA and Harris Interactive surveyed some 2,000 teens across the country and learned that teens feel that cell phones have become a vital part of their identities.
  • Another recent survey conducted by Nielsen revealed that kids are getting cell phones even before they hit their teens. Nearly half of kids age 8 to 12 years old own cell phones in the U.S, according to the Nielsen report. And on average kids get their first cell phone between the ages of 10 and 11 years old.
  • Most of the teens on the panel agreed that Apple's href="http://www.cnet.com/apple-iphone.html" class="link" target="new">iPhone is the coolest phone on the market. But none of them owned one, largely because the devices are too expensive and so is the monthly service fee from AT&T.
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  • And 42 percent of those surveyed say they could text blindfolded.
  • third of teens surveyed say they regularly play games on their phones
  • 20 percent of them use their phones for social networking.
  • 36 percent of teens in the survey said they don't like buddy-tracking features that reveal their physical location to others
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Jun 09
     
    Research shows that cell phones are a vital part of student identities with four out of five students having a cell phone. Now, nearly half of kids aged 8-12 years own cell phones. Most kids get their first cell phone between 10 and 11.
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Jun 09
     
    Percentage of US teenagers who have cell phones.
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Artsonia Kids Art Museum - The Largest Student Art Gallery on the Web! - 0 views

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shared by Alan K on 22 Nov 11 - Cached
  • Alan K on 22 Nov 11
     
    Artsonia is an art website where kids from all over the world can upload their work online for everyone to see. Artsonia would be classified as a "virtual museum".
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Children's Way - Teaching Kids and Parents Internet Safety - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 04 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 04 Oct 08
     
    Great place to teach digital citizenship for students in elementary ages. Schools can sign up for accounts. Excellent place to evaluate as part of how the www is changing the world and how information is moving between children.
  • Vicki Davis on 04 Oct 08
     
    I highly recommend that elementary and middle schools at least sign up for a school code for woogi world - this is a great tool suggested by Hoover City schools for teaching digital citizenship. My daughter (my intrepid tester of all kid virtual worlds) loves it and says she thinks it is great for kids.
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The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | What Makes a Great Teacher? | Amanda Ripley - 0 views

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  • This tale of two boys, and of the millions of kids just like them, embodies the most stunning finding to come out of education research in the past decade: more than any other variable in education—more than schools or curriculum—teachers matter. Put concretely, if Mr. Taylor’s student continued to learn at the same level for a few more years, his test scores would be no different from those of his more affluent peers in Northwest D.C. And if these two boys were to keep their respective teachers for three years, their lives would likely diverge forever. By high school, the compounded effects of the strong teacher—or the weak one—would become too great.
  • Farr was tasked with finding out. Starting in 2002, Teach for America began using student test-score progress data to put teachers into one of three categories: those who move their students one and a half or more years ahead in one year; those who achieve one to one and a half years of growth; and those who yield less than one year of gains. In the beginning, reliable data was hard to come by, and many teachers could not be put into any category. Moreover, the data could never capture the entire story of a teacher’s impact, Farr acknowledges.
  • They were also perpetually looking for ways to improve their effectiveness
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  • First, great teachers tended to set big goals for their students.
  • Great teachers, he concluded, constantly reevaluate what they are doing.
  • Superstar teachers had four other tendencies in common: they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
  • When her fourth-grade students entered her class last school year, 66 percent were scoring at or above grade level in reading. After a year in her class, only 44 percent scored at grade level, and none scored above. Her students performed worse than fourth-graders with similar incoming scores in other low-income D.C. schools. For decades, education researchers blamed kids and their home life for their failure to learn. Now, given the data coming out of classrooms like Mr. Taylor’s, those arguments are harder to take. Poverty matters enormously. But teachers all over the country are moving poor kids forward anyway, even as the class next door stagnates. “At the end of the day,” says Timothy Daly at the New Teacher Project, “it’s the mind-set that teachers need—a kind of relentless approach to the problem.”
  • t year’s end, teachers who score below a certain threshold could be fired.
  • What did predict success, interestingly, was a history of perseverance—not just an attitude, but a track record. In the interview process, Teach for America now asks applicants to talk about overcoming challenges in their lives—and ranks their perseverance based on their answers.
  • Gritty people, the theory goes, work harder and stay committed to their goals longer
  • This year, Teach for America allowed me to sit in on the part of the interview process that it calls the “sample teach,” in which applicants teach a lesson to the other applicants for exactly five minutes. Only about half of the candidates make it to this stage. On this day, the group includes three men and two women, all college seniors or very recent graduates.
  • But if school systems hired, trained, and rewarded teachers according to the principles Teach for America has identified, then teachers would not need to work so hard. They would be operating in a system designed in a radically different way—designed, that is, for success.
  • five observation sessions conducted throughout the year by their principal, assistant principal, and a group of master educators.
  • are almost never dismissed.
  • But this tradition may be coming to an end. He’s thinking about quitting in the next few years.
  • kimberly caise on 04 Feb 10
     
    "This tale of two boys, and of the millions of kids just like them, embodies the most stunning finding to come out of education research in the past decade: more than any other variable in education-more than schools or curriculum-teachers matter. Put concretely, if Mr. Taylor's student continued to learn at the same level for a few more years, his test scores would be no different from those of his more affluent peers in Northwest D.C. And if these two boys were to keep their respective teachers for three years, their lives would likely diverge forever. By high school, the compounded effects of the strong teacher-or the weak one-would become too great."
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FOXNews.com - Cyberbullying: Parents, Tech Companies Join Forces to Keep Kids Safe - Sc... - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 23 Oct 08 - Cached
  • An ex-friend’s mother faces charges in federal court as a result, and Missouri has made Internet harassment a crime.
  • Cyberbullies often commandeer e-mail accounts and social-networking profiles, attacking kids while pretending to be someone they trust, like a best friend. They use cell phones and the Web to spread embarrassing and cruel material, and they can harass their victims well beyond the schoolyard -- even when they're "safe" at home.
  • 85 percent of 5,000 middle-school students surveyed said they had been cyberbullied. Only 5 percent of them said they’d tell someone about it.
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  • Fake profiles and anonymous screen names are used in 65 percent of cyberbully attacks,
  • she went to a mental-health clinic
  • assuming that if they haven’t received a death threat or had a picture of their face posted on a naked body on the Internet, they haven’t been bullied.
  • They think that’s just part of online life,
  • Aftab said she knows of three other teens who have committed suicide after cyberbullying attacks, and that the problem is on the rise.
  • Cyberbullying peaks in 4th and 7th grade
  • 4th graders are especially into blackmail and threatening to tell friends, parents or teachers if the victim doesn’t cooperate.
  • The most outrageous recent way is through theft of a cell phone for a few minutes," Aftab said. "If your kids leave their cell phone unattended or accessible in their backpack, the cyberbully will take it and send a bunch of bad text messages or reprogram it.”
  • “This whole password thing freaks people out ... but a good password doesn’t have to be hard to remember, just hard to guess,” Criddle said. “Friends don’t ask friends for passwords.
  • October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month,
  • Vicki Davis on 23 Oct 08
     
    Excellent article on cyberbullying and an example of a girl who was harrassed online and killed herself. This sort of thing is tragic and we should consider what we think aboutinternet harrassment penalties, particularly against children. There are mention of several websites including one I'd never heard of called CyberBully Alert.
  • Vicki Davis on 23 Oct 08
     
    You should consider mentioning cyberbullying as an issue. This might also be a topic of interest to push forward for a social entreprenuership video.
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Goodreads | When Marion Copied:: Learning about Plagiarism by Brook Berg - Reviews, Dis... - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 05 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 05 Feb 13
     
    Some teachers recommended the book "When Marion Copied" for teaching kids about plaigarism in elementary.
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Discover Turkey: APRIL 23 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S DAY - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 06 Apr 12
     
    Information on International children's day which began in Turkey. Here's some information on this event. "Every year, the children in Turkey celebrate this "Sovereignty and Children's Day" as a national holiday. Schools participate in week-long ceremonies marked by performances in all fields in large stadiums watched by the entire nation. Among the activities on this day, the children send their representatives to replace state officials and high ranking bureaucrats in their offices. The President, the Prime Minister, the Cabinet Ministers, provincial governors all turn over their positions to children's representatives. These children, in turn, sign executive orders relating to educational and environmental policies. On this day, the children also replace the parliamentarians in the Grand National Assembly and hold a special session to discuss matters concerning children's issues. Over the last two decades, the Turkish officials have been working hard to internationalize this important day. Their efforts resulted in large number of world states' sending groups of children to Turkey to participate in the above stated festivities. During their stay in Turkey, the foreign children are housed in Turkish homes and find an important opportunity to interact with the Turkish kids and learn about each other's countries and cultures. The foreign children groups also participate in the special session of the Grand National Assembly. This results in a truly international Assembly where children pledge their commitment to international peace and brotherhood.
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Commentary & Opinion Commentary & Opinion: Young Kids Need to Learn About Social Entrep... - 0 views

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  • Niko Hahalis on 24 Mar 12
     
    Young Kids Need to Learn About Social Entrepreneurship
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The Human Anatomy, Animated With 3-D Technology - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 10 Jan 12
     
    NYU Medical students wear 3-D glasses and dissect a virtual cadaver projected on a screen. The professor says "it's like a living digital textbook." I do, however, really hope my doctors have experience with the human body and don't do like a kid who has practiced basketball and never played in the game - bumble the ball as they start. No one wants to be a practice dummy - in this case a practice cadaver. Yet, do you realize that we could now add human dissection to anatomy class? In 3D you could dissect the human body? There are very exciting things coming in this area.
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Eastwood High School c/o 2012 Flash Mob - YouTube - 2 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 11 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 11 Jun 12
     
    A flashmob at graduation? Oh yes. If you want to smile at kids and what happens in today's interconnected society watch this graduation flashmob. Without social media, I doubt this sort of thing would be possible. 
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Docs to Parents: Limit Kids' Texts, Tweets, Online - 0 views

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  • Jacob Holland on 28 Oct 13
     
    This article details the widespread availability of the Internet and other forms of technology in the lives of America's youth. However, doctors are now beginning to state that too much of this beneficial technology is bad and that usage should be regulated.
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Jaye Albright's Breakfast Blog: Alarming - 0 views

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  • The younger the person, the more likely they wake up to an alarm on their cell phone and not a radio.
  • At least half of the folks in the groups in multple cities I witnessed reported using the cell phone as their sole wake up device.
  • Vicki Davis on 16 Nov 10
     
    I find it funny that radio stations are concerned because kids are using their cell phones as their alarm clocks in the morning. They could use cell phones as calculators, dictionaries, and translators -- oops, I forgot, we don't allow them in schools.
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3M MPro 110 | Popular Science - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 12 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 12 Nov 08
     
    Here's your handheld projector - as my students and I joke - kids will no longer be texting in the bathroom but watching movies.
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No Future Left Behind - 0 views

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shared by Julie Lindsay on 07 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Julie Lindsay on 07 Mar 09
     
    This film was created as the Keynote for Net Generation Education Project: http://netgened.wikispaces.com When kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked to talk about education and their future, they gave Peggy Sheehy, the SMS media specialist, an earful. Listen and learn the bits of wisdom that can be gleaned from the students, if we only dare to ask them. Students from The Elisabeth Morrow School Tech Club contributed machinima created in Quest Atlantis. Marianne Malmstrom (aka Knowclue) worked remotely with the students of Suffern to create machinima of their avatars on Teen Second Life. Original music, "Harpsicord" was created by a former Suffern Middle School student, Larry Bordowitz. All editing was done by Peggy Sheehy and Marianne Malmstrom.
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YouTube - No Future Left Behind - 0 views

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shared by Julie Lindsay on 04 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Julie Lindsay on 04 Mar 09
     
    This film was created as the Keynote for Net Generation Education Project: http://netgened.wikispaces.com When kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked to talk about education and their future, they gave Peggy Sheehy, the SMS media specialist, an earful. Listen and learn the bits of wisdom that can be gleaned from the students, if we only dare to ask them. Students from The Elisabeth Morrow School Tech Club contributed machinima created in Quest Atlantis.
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SpringWoodsHS » home - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 27 Oct 08 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 27 Oct 08
     
    This group may be an interesting group to interview for Flat Classroom project - from Houston.
  • Vicki Davis on 27 Oct 08
     
    Got a link to this wiki from Estie Cuellar, amazing teacher who has joined in Flat Classroom this year. She says: "I would like to share something with you guys. I teach a Sports Marketing Class. I'm always looking for new and fun ways to reach the kids. Yesterday, I started my class on a comprehensive project that I'm calling, "Rock On." The goal of the project is for the students teams (all of my classes work in teams) to synthesize what they've learned in class so far (they've learned the marketing mix, target marketing, positioning, segmenting, and the 7-key functions of marketing) and plan a 20 city tour for their band. I found the project from a "Best Practices" book that Jeff McCauley of The Marketing Teacher compiled from marketing teachers and sent out as a PDF a couple of years ago. I have modified the original project to utilize Web2.0 technologies." Interesting ideas - wish I could teach marketing!
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U.S. official says online drug videos threaten teens | Reuters - 0 views

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  • The director of the White House war on drugs said on Monday that Internet videos that show people getting high pose a dangerous threat to teenagers by encouraging them to use drugs and alcohol.
  • Vicki Davis on 07 Oct 08
     
    Online videos are often to blame or being talked about in many forums.
  • Vicki Davis on 07 Oct 08
     
    It would be ineresting to see a STUDY on this. While I agree it is not good for kids to see -- we also need to see correlation before we jump into things. I still think that a rating system for youtube and online videos is needed to aid in filtering for age appropriateness.
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NEA: Teachers Caught on YouTube - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 07 Oct 08
     
    Teachers filmed and put online -- this is an issue and part of what is happening now. Anything can be filmed any place any where any time.
  • Vicki Davis on 07 Oct 08
     
    Article about teachers being filmed and put on youtube -- I did a post a while back called "spies like us" that talks about this happening. Again, talk about behavior to kids before this happens at your school - www.digiteen.net is our effort.
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