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Lucy Gray

OECD Better Life Index - 2 views

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  • Lucy Gray on 13 Aug 14
     
    "More than 60 000 users of the Better Life Index around the world have shared their views on what makes for a better life. Explore the interactive map and find out what well-being topics are rated highest and where. Of course this is a small share of the world's population - so why not share your vision of a better life and help us reach 100 000 (or even more) by the end of 2014. "
Lucy Gray

Professional Curiosity - 0 views

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shared by Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08
     
    Meredith's blog detailing life in Chile
  • Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08
     
    Meredith's blog detailing life in Chile
  • Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08
     
    Meredith's blog detailing life in Chile
anonymous

The Open Source Teaching Project - 6 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Nov 09 - Cached
  • 1. We recruit people to share lessons learned about life, careers, culture, and academics.2. We apply social media as a seamless tool for teaching, managing, and collaborating with others.
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 09
     
    1. We recruit people to share lessons learned about life, careers, culture, and academics. 2. We apply social media as a seamless tool for teaching, managing, and collaborating with others.
Jeff Johnson

When glaciers disappear, the bugs move in (ENN) - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 28 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 28 Aug 08
     
    We've all been stunned by images showing the dramatic retreat of mountain glaciers. Yet few of us have given much thought to what happens next. Now the first study to look at how life invades soil immediately after mountain glaciers melt has an answer. Primitive bacteria step in to colonise the area, enrich the soil with nutrients, and even cement the ground, preventing landslides, say researchers who have studied the process in the Peruvian Andes.
Linda Nitsche

Video Gallery - 0 views

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  • Linda Nitsche on 01 Mar 09
     
    These 17 student-made videos are the product of a three-week digital storytelling initiative in rural Senegal. The students worked in pairs, with one student in front of the camera and the other acting as director. he result is a fascinatingly candid look into village life, a perspective that could only be filmed by a local. The students' narrations are in French, Senegal's official national language. English subtitles are provided.
Lucy Gray

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

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shared by Lucy Gray on 02 Dec 09 - Cached
  • 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.
Elizabeth Crawford

One Globe Kids - 1 views

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  • 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

Factories Ready to Hire, but Skilled Workers Scarce - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...02manufacturing.html

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shared by Lucy Gray on 02 Jul 10 - Cached
  • In a survey last year of 779 industrial companies by the National Association of Manufacturers, the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, 32 percent of companies reported “moderate to serious” skills shortages. Sixty-three percent of life science companies, and 45 percent of energy firms cited such shortages.
  • Employers say they are looking for aptitude as much as specific skills. “We are trying to find people with the right mindset and intelligence,” said Mr. Murphy.
  • Local leaders worry that the skills shortage now will be exacerbated once baby boomers start retiring. In Ohio, officials project that about 30 percent of the state’s manufacturing workers will be eligible for retirement by 2016.
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  • The jobs, which would pay $18 to $23 an hour, require considerable technical skill.
  • anonymous on 02 Jul 10
     
    Is assessing basic skills enough in a global economy?
  • anonymous on 02 Jul 10
     
    Yong Zaho is right, the US will loose by teaching to and assessing for basic skills. As Richard Florida and Dan Pink write about it is the Creative Class where there is real growth.
Jeff Johnson

"The Persistence of Memory" (January 4, 2008) - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 13 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Computer scientist Gordon Bell is at the vanguard of a movement called "lifelogging," digitally recording every moment of his day in an effort to create a complete virtual memory of his life. But why? We talk with Bell and also technology writer Clive Thompson about the implications.
Lucy Gray

A Night in the Global Village: Role-Playing Life in Poverty | Edutopia - 1 views

www.edutopia.org/night-global-village

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  • Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08
     
    This IS education. You must watch this!
  • Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08
     
    This IS education. You must watch this!
  • Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08
     
    This IS education. You must watch this!
Lucy Gray

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

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

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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.
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