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Terms of Use | Scholastic Inc. - 1 views

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Kate Petty

eReading Resources for Teachers to Use With Storia | Scholastic.com - 1 views

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    Resource/app for e-reading.  Different levels.  
djplaner

Face to Face: Alan Kay Still Waiting for the Revolution | Scholastic.com - 1 views

  • Seymour Papert once pointed out, just imagine the absurdity of a school that has only two pencils in each classroom. Or imagine a school where all the pencils are locked up in a special room.
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      #pencilchat built on/borrowed Papert's use of the pencil as an allegory see http://www.good.is/posts/why-pencilchat-is-the-most-clever-edcuation-allegory-ever/
  • www.squeakland.org
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  • or more information about Squeak,
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      Squeak was used to write Scratch. Perhaps the most widely used "introductory" programming language. Find out more about Scratch here http://scratch.mit.edu/
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    An interview with a man responsible for most of what you see in personal computers talking about why the computer revolution in schools hasn't happened yet. We may be using this during the Week 2 learning path.
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    Yes, Seymour appears to be confirming what the Government has promised over the next year, to put a laptop per student in every classroom.
djplaner

Free Classroom Lesson Plans and Unit Plans for Teachers | Scholastic.com - 21 views

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    Run by a publisher
christinepeterson66

How to Connect With Other Teachers in the Social Age | Edudemic - 1 views

  • In the 2012 Primary Sources Survey conducted by Scholastic and The Gates Foundation, teacher respondents claimed to spend only about 4% of each day collaborating with colleagues, while 44% of teachers surveyed responded that they would like that collaboration time to increase.
  • some of these same emerging trends in technology and teaching can help teachers connect with each other and exchange ideas and resources.
  • New teachers can find mentors online, people with tried and true experience to help get them through the tough dilemmas they face in the classroom. Veteran teachers can find research and new information about technology and ways to bring their practice to the next level.
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    this is an interesting article that gives suggestions on how we as educators can connect and collaborate with our peers
lucindalh

Blog of a Year 3 teacher- Alycia Zimmerman - 0 views

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    I think this teacher is interesting as she posts a lot of interesting and relevant ideas for teaching across a number of different content areas. 
tamarasteinhardt

Free Classroom Lesson Plans and Unit Plans for Teachers | Scholastic - 14 views

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    Lesson plans, unit plans, and classroom resources for your teaching needs. Browse or search thousands of free teacher resources for all grade levels and subjects
Karen Thompson

StudyJams - 1 views

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    Study jam maths and science activities
philipamck

Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom - 7 views

  • Modern technologies are very powerful
  • rely on
  • human brain has a tremendous
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  • the preference for visually presented information.
  • bias for visually presented information.
  • The developing child requires the right combination of these experiences at the right times during development in order to develop optimally.
  • The technologies that benefit young children the greatest are those that are interactive and allow the child to develop their curiosity, problem solving and independent thinking skills.
  • Children are natural "manipulators" of the world
  • With television, they watch and do not control anything
  • cameras and tape recorders and video cameras in the classroom
  • children think differently than adults
  • Children need real-life experiences with real people to truly benefit from available technologies.
  • Children have to have an integrated and well-balanced set of experiences to help them grow into capable adults that can handle social-emotional interactions as well as develop their intellectual abilities.
  • What's important is when experience is provided and how it's mixed in with other crucial experiences.
  • Parents and teachers must act as facilitators in children's learning.
  • parents and teachers can take advantage of the interactive qualities of a computer to enhance the experiences available to children.
  • our task is to balance appropriate skill-development with technologies with the core principles and experiences necessary to raise healthy children
  • he key to making technologies healthy is to make sure that we use them to enhance or even expand our social interactions and our view of the world as opposed to using them to isolate and create an artificial world
  • as with all other tools, adults must protect children from misuse or inappropriate access.
  • struggle with
  • ontrolling access to content that may not be developmentally appropriate.
  • ccess to information that is developmentally appropriate is something that we need to be very concerned about
  • may think that buildings are blowing up all over the place and many planes crashed — rather than understanding that these multiple stories are actually from single events
  • word processor and they can hand in papers that are clean and neat and they can see how to spell words correctly
  • put them on a
  • simplest level,
  • ine motor
  • arge motor problem
  • heir handwriting is very immature and very slow and looks sloppy
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    Using technology in the early years
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