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Lucy Gray

About GLOBE | GLOBE Program - 7 views

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    "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."
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    One of the foremost sites for global collaboration in the Science field, for any group of students in K-12 using real scientific data.
Lucy Gray

National Geographic Education Network--EarthCurrent News Digest - 0 views

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    The twice-weekly, bite-sized digest contains links to global news stories on classroom-perfect topics such as archaeology and paleontology, exploration and adventure, weather, peoples and cultures, plants and animals, science and technology, and much more
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    The twice-weekly, bite-sized digest contains links to global news stories on classroom-perfect topics such as archaeology and paleontology, exploration and adventure, weather, peoples and cultures, plants and animals, science and technology, and much more
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    The twice-weekly, bite-sized digest contains links to global news stories on classroom-perfect topics such as archaeology and paleontology, exploration and adventure, weather, peoples and cultures, plants and animals, science and technology, and much more
Jeff Johnson

The Ethics of Climate Change: Pay Now or Pay More Later?: Scientific American - 0 views

  • What should we do about climate change? The question is an ethical one. Science, including the science of economics, can help discover the causes and effects of climate change. It can also help work out what we can do about climate change. But what we should do is an ethical question.
  • Weighing our own prosperity against the chances that climate change will diminish the well-being of our grandchildren calls on economists to make hard ethical judgments
Lucy Gray

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

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    Mentioned in CCSSO/Asia Society ebook Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World
Toni Olivieri-Barton

Unchaining Dreams - 2 views

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    Amazing program about Modern Slavery. He is looking for International Schools to get involved.
Lucy Gray

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

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    "Bridging the gap between science and the practice of learning for nature, the environment and sustainability"
Henry Liebling

Review of Revolutions that made the Earth by Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson -- REVIEW - 0 views

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    An important new book.
Lucy Gray

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

  • 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.
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    Is assessing basic skills enough in a global economy?
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    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.
Shaun Fletcher

The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard - 0 views

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    From raw materials to garbage... the story of stuff.
Jeff Johnson

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - ICT Literacy Maps - 0 views

  • In collaboration with several content area organizations, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills developed a series of ICT Literacy Maps illustrating the intersection between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy and core academic subjects including English, mathematics, science and social studies (civics/government, geography, economics, history). The maps enable educators to gain concrete examples of how ICT Literacy can be integrated into core subjects, while making the teaching and learning of core subjects more relevant to the demands of the 21st century.
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