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Anastasia Goodstein on Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens are Really Doing Online. MySpace, Facebook, Xanga, Live Journal, Ning - foreign and frightening to some parents, tremendously popular and patronized by teens - online social networks are at an all-time high and show no signs of losing favor. Inspired by her daily blogging about teens and youth on YPulse and extensive interviews with teens, teachers and parents, Anastasia Goodstein arms adults with the language and knowledge they need to understand how teens are really using the internet, showing them when to set boundaries, and when to just relax. "Totally Wired" is a voice of reason amidst panic, and will open the eyes of concerned adults everywhere. Come learn which sites are appropriate for each age group and ways to monitor or block children from accessing certain sites; the ins and outs of online social networking and journaling; how to handle cyber bullying, the difference between healthy, harmless internet usage and potential dangers, and how to better talk to kids about the internet - Cody's Books

Seminário para pais sobre crianças e jovens e a sua relação com as redes sociais online. Excelente! Oradora: Anastasia Goldstein

Will Richardson---widely recognized as one of America's most progressive educational thinkers---worked to define the kinds of skills that would be necessary for students to succeed in an increasingly interconnected world.

Catálogo de vídeos educativos, devidamente organizados, para alunos dos 3 aos 18 anos.

"We have specialized in finding and reviewing high-quality free learning software and websites from the Internet - mostly for kids, but also for grown-ups."

The way to implement an innovation so it will transform an organization is to implement it disruptively. That means not attaching it to the existing paradigm and serving existing customers but targeting those not being served or not buying what's served, people we call nonconsumers. That way, all the new approach has to do is be better than a nonexistent alternative

Os bons professores são a magia na sala de aula... os comptutadoes não o são!

Portal com vídeos educativos para crianças. Pena que seja na língua Inglesa!

Eis um excelente sítio para a aprendizagem da língua inglesa.

"Tux Paint" é um programa de desenho para crianças. Ele possui uma interface simples com área de desenho de tamanho fixo, e permite escolher facilmente as imagens gravadas através de miniaturas (sem acesso ao seu sistema de arquivos). Ao contrário de outros programas de desenho populares, como o "GIMP," ele possui uma conjunto muito limitado de ferramentas. Contudo, ele proporciona uma interface muito mais simples, além de possuir orientados a crianças, como efeitos sonoros.

Vale a pena experimentar este poderoso software de desenho gratuito! As crianças adoram-no! E eu também...

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults, you can freely use our software, copy it, modify it to your needs and enjoy learning! Please have a look at the Tour webpage to get a quick preview of our programs which are translated in more than 65 languages. Our primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users. However, we also have programs to aid teachers in planning lessons, and others that are of interest to university students and anyone else with a desire to learn! While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows. Read more on the KDE-Edu on Windows page!