“Take a room full of five-year-olds and you will see creativity in all its forms positively flowing around the room. A decade later you will see these same children passively sitting at their desks, half asleep or trying to decipher what will be on the next test.”
“We’d always thought fatigue is symptom of depression, but now it’s looking more like lack of sleep causes depression, and that’s something looked at seriously.” Kids needs nine hours of sleep, and if schools were in synch developmentally with teenagers, should would start at 10 a.m., especially when kids enter adolescence. Teachers should also coordinate their exams with each other to ensure that students are not taking multiple tests on the same day.
AMAZING!!!!! You do not want to miss out on this resource. An online conference was held called Library 2.0 and all of the sessions were recorded. I challenge you to watch/listen to just one of these presentations and share that knowledge with your colleagues. Topics are ALL over the place, not just related to the library.
students need to share their work and projects with others outside the
classroom.
Skype sessions, blogs, wikis, creating podcasts, digital storytelling, content
specific interactive games and programs, VoiceThread, and online presentations
with Glogster
students need to work collaboratively inside and outside the classroom to solve
real-time issues, problems, and audiences