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How to Preserve a Halloween Pumpkin - Keep a Jack O' Lantern Fresh - 16 views

www.myscienceproject.org/pumpkin.html

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shared by Bill Genereux on 22 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Bill Genereux on 22 Sep 11
     
    This would be a fun experiment for students to test replicability of results.
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Harvard Education Letter - 7 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 13 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • divergent (brainstorming), convergent (categorizing and prioritizing), and metacognitive (reflective) thinking abilities
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School bans photographs of pupils - Telegraph - 1 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...ans-photographs-of-pupils.html

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shared by Bill Genereux on 15 Aug 11 - No Cached
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      Bill Genereux on 15 Aug 11
       
      Interesting that this photography ban is in a TECHNOLOGY school. How can you teach anything about digital media without using cameras?
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Are Today's Youth Less Creative & Imaginative? | School Testing & No Child Left Behind ... - 0 views

www.livescience.com/15535-children-creative.html

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shared by Bill Genereux on 15 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • there's evidence to suggest that, worldwide, youngsters are very creative, particularly with their use of digital media
  • creativity declines in adulthood as we become more aware of the notions of right and wrong answers
  • students who look different, nonconformists, will suffer, because they are not accepted
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  • Research shows that if creative personalities don't adjust to the school system, they can become underachievers and drop out of school
  • there is less time for pretend play
  • interaction between students and teachers has become one of "intellectual hide and seek." The students try to match what they think the teacher wants to hear.
  • Teachers don't spend a lot of time exploring unexpected ideas because they might not be sure where it will lead
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Mrs. Yollis' Classroom Blog: Mystery Skype Call With Langwitches! - 0 views

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mystery skype assignment criticalthinking 3rdgrade

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  • Bill Genereux on 10 Aug 11
     
    An interactive guessing game using skype.
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Cheating report confirms teacher's suspicions - CNN.com - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 08 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • "Nobody knows yet how to write machine-scorable standardized test questions that are able to measure anything precisely excepting memory," Brady says. "Memory is a thought process, but it's a fairly low-level thought process." "There's a whole range of thought processes: making inferences, generating hypotheses, and generalizing and synthesizing and valuing ... that every human being engages in every day, and nobody knows how to test them (with standardized tests)."
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