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Elizabeth Crawford

One Globe Kids - 1 views

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global education culture app

shared by Elizabeth Crawford on 02 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Elizabeth Crawford on 02 Oct 15
     
    One Globe Kids lets students meet new friends online or on their iPad or iPhone. The free Globe Smart Education app presents memorable daily-life stories from youth around the world to help children in kindergarten through grade 5 gain cultural understanding, learn about other countries, and make comparisons to their own lives. The stories reflect the lives of children in Israel, Palestine, The Netherlands, Norway, Haiti, Indonesia, New York City, Burundi, and more. Students can visit Valdo in Haiti right away and then travel the world via in-app purchases ranging from $1.99 to $15.99, per friend. Real stories from around the globe are told child to child, with full-color photographs and narration. Students can record themselves speaking and counting in their friend's language. They can choose an "Adventure" story and decide how they want to interact with their new friends, and they can record a conversation with the "Tell me about yourself" feature. Students also learn interesting facts about each country they visit and enhance their knowledge of geography by putting themselves and their friends and family on the globe and seeing where they are in relation to their new friends. The Globe Smart Education app also includes in-depth teaching supports that will get students moving and thinking.
Lucy Gray

Map | TeachUNICEF - 4 views

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map UNICEF

shared by Lucy Gray on 04 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 04 Sep 14
     
    "Explore UNICEF projects and news from around the world and take action to help children in need. Click each pin to watch a video, listen to a podcast, view a lesson plan or read about a UNICEF project in the field. Download the TeachUNICEF Map Guide for information on how best to integrate the map into your classrom."
Henry Liebling

Teachers sharing with teachers - Education for Sustainable Development | Education and ... - 2 views

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shared by Henry Liebling on 27 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Henry Liebling on 27 Jun 12
     
    SandWatch project with primary aged children in Grenada "House Assembly Project" with secondary students in Canada The teachers describe their ways of teaching sustainability & the students' give their reactions. "
Linda Nitsche

Voices Of The World - 0 views

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shared by Linda Nitsche on 10 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Linda Nitsche on 10 Jul 08
     
    Voices of the World collaborative project connecting learners in the primary grades using a different tool each month.
  • Linda Nitsche on 10 Jul 08
     
    Voices Of The World was created by Sharon Tonner from The High School Of Dundee in Scotland to connect children from around the world using their voices rather than the standard text and images and prepare them for their globalised future.
Lucy Gray

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

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

technology schools change critique measurement effectiveness integration

shared by Lucy Gray on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • 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.”
Lucy Gray

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

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shared by Lucy Gray on 15 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Henry Liebling on 15 Feb 12
     
    "Bridging the gap between science and the practice of learning for nature, the environment and sustainability"
Lucy Gray

Bilingual babies' vocabulary linked to early brain differentiation - 3 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...110829070559.htm

education bilingual babies vocabulary brain

shared by Lucy Gray on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Kuhl's previous studies show that between 8 and 10 months of age, monolingual babies become increasingly able to distinguish speech sounds of their native language, while at the same time their ability to distinguish sounds from a foreign language declines.
  • almost nothing is known about how bilingual babies do this for two languages. Knowing how experience sculpts the brain will tell us something that goes way beyond language development.
  • the bilingual brain remains flexible to languages for a longer period of time, possibly because bilingual infants are exposed to a greater variety of speech sounds at home.
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  • This difference in development suggests that the bilingual babies "may have a different timetable for neurally committing to a language" compared with monolingual babies
  • "When the brain is exposed to two languages rather than only one, the most adaptive response is to stay open longer before showing the perceptual narrowing that monolingual infants typically show at the end of the first year of life," Garcia-Sierra said.
  • the size of the bilingual children's vocabulary was associated with the strength of their brain responses in discriminating languages at 10-12 months of age.
  • The researchers say the best way for children to learn a second language is through social interactions and daily exposure to the language.
Lucy Gray

UNICEF - Voices of Youth: Take action - 0 views

www.unicef.org/...takeaction_4439.html

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shared by Lucy Gray on 31 May 09 - Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 31 May 09
     
    UNICEF Voices of Youth video contest
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