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Lucy Gray

About GLOBE | GLOBE Program - 7 views

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  • Adrienne Michetti on 20 Sep 10
     
    "Announced in 1994, GLOBE began operations on Earth Day 1995. Today, the international GLOBE network has grown to include representatives from 111 participating countries coordinating GLOBE activities that are integrated into their local and regional communities." "The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. GLOBE's vision promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system working in close partnership with NASA, NOAA and NSF Earth System Science Projects (ESSP's) in study and research about the dynamics of Earth's environment."
  • Adrienne Michetti on 20 Sep 10
     
    One of the foremost sites for global collaboration in the Science field, for any group of students in K-12 using real scientific data.
Anne Mirtschin

Amazing Race - Global Project - globalstudentsglobalperspectives - 3 views

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  • Anne Mirtschin on 19 Aug 15
     
    To facilitate student growth within a global environment. Students will have the ability to acquire skills in research, critical thinking, teamwork and leadership while fostering partnerships with peers around the globe.
  • Anne Mirtschin on 19 Aug 15
     
    To facilitate student growth within a global environment. Students will have the ability to acquire skills in research, critical thinking, teamwork and leadership while fostering partnerships with peers around the globe.
Lucy Gray

Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet: News in Science, Health, Weather, Environment and Na... - 2 views

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  • Lucy Gray on 24 Jul 11
     
    Mentioned in CCSSO/Asia Society ebook Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World
Lucy Gray

K12 Online Conference 2009 | 2009 PRECONFERENCE KEYNOTE:Going Global: Culture Shock, ... - 3 views

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  • Lucy Gray on 02 Dec 09
     
    Looking at daily life in foreign lands reveals a colorful spectrum of inspiring metaphors for the shifts we need to make in education. Often what we may find initially chaotic, disorienting and strange in other countries can actually spark new ways of thinking about teaching and learning. Through the voices of teachers and students from around the world, we'll examine the unique aptitudes which allow successful expats to thrive in any environment. These are exactly the skills that future students and teachers will need to confidently enter the digital, global, converging, collaborative world of tomorrow - wherever they might be physically located.
Lucy Gray

Research, sustainability and learning | Scoop.it - 6 views

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  • Henry Liebling on 15 Feb 12
     
    "Bridging the gap between science and the practice of learning for nature, the environment and sustainability"
Lucy Gray

Torbays-Urban-Forest.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 2 views

www.treeconomics.co.uk/...Torbays-Urban-Forest.pdf

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  • Henry Liebling on 09 Feb 12
     
    Recent assessment of value of an urban forest
Jeff Johnson

Carbon Footprint - Calculate, Reduce and Offset - What Is A Carbon Footprint? - 0 views

www.carbonfootprint.com/carbonfootprint.html

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 18 May 08 - Cached
  • A Carbon Footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.
Shaun Fletcher

The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard - 0 views

www.storyofstuff.com

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  • Shaun Fletcher on 13 Apr 08
     
    From raw materials to garbage... the story of stuff.
Jeff Johnson

An Inconvenient Truth > Carbon Calculator - 0 views

www.climatecrisis.net/...carboncalculator

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 23 May 08 - Cached
  • We all contribute to global warming every day. The carbon dioxide you produce by driving your car and leaving the lights on adds up quickly. You may be surprised by how much Co2 you are emitting each year. Calculate your personal impact and learn how you can take action to reduce or even eliminate your emissions of carbon dioxide.
Shaun Fletcher

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  • Shaun Fletcher on 13 Apr 08
     
    Amazing visualization of consumption in US.
Lucy Gray

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...-faces-questions-on-value.html

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  • When it comes to showing results, he said, “We better put up or shut up.”
  • Critics counter that, absent clear proof, schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals. They say the technology advocates have it backward when they press to upgrade first and ask questions later.
  • how the district was innovating.
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  • “We’ve jumped on bandwagons for different eras without knowing fully what we’re doing. This might just be the new bandwagon,” he said. “I hope not.”
  • there is no good way to quantify those achievements — putting them in a tough spot with voters deciding whether to bankroll this approach again
  • district was innovating
  • “Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things students are doing: learning to use the Internet to research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.”
  • If we know something works
  • it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training
  • The high-level analyses that sum up these various studies, not surprisingly, give researchers pause about whether big investments in technology make sense.
  • Good teachers, he said, can make good use of computers, while bad teachers won’t, and they and their students could wind up becoming distracted by the technology.
  • “It’s not the stuff that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.”
  • creating an impetus to rethink education entirely
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Like teaching powerpoint is "rethinking education". Right.
  • “There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.”
  • “They’re inundated with 24/7 media, so they expect it,”
  • The 30 students in the classroom held wireless clickers into which they punched their answers. Seconds later, a pie chart appeared on the screen: 23 percent answered “True,” 70 percent “False,” and 6 percent didn’t know.
  • rofessor Cuban at Stanford argues that keeping children engaged requires an environment of constant novelty, which cannot be sustained.
  • engagement is a “fluffy
  • term” that can slide past critical analysis.
  • that computers can distract and not instruct.
  • guide on the side.
  • Professor Cuban at Stanford
  • But she loves the fact that her two children, a fourth-grader and first-grader, are learning technology, including PowerPoint
  • $46.3 million for laptops, classroom projectors, networking gear and other technology for teachers and administrators.
  • Mr. Share bases his buying decisions on two main factors: what his teachers tell him they need, and his experience. For instance, he said he resisted getting the interactive whiteboards sold as Smart Boards until, one day in 2008, he saw a teacher trying to mimic the product with a jury-rigged projector setup. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said, leading him to buy Smart Boards, made by a company called Smart Technologies.
  • This is big business.
  • “Do we really need technology to learn?” she said. “It’s a very valid time to ask the question, right before this goes on the ballot.”
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