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Wolfram Programming Lab: Computational Thinking Starts Here - 0 views

  • Wolfram Programming Lab has a step-by-step introductory programming course built right in. Written by Stephen Wolfram himself, An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language teaches you the basics of the Wolfram Language in a straightforward, accessible way—even if you've never coded before
  • The Wolfram Language concept: make the language do the work, not you! Automate as much as possible, so you write a tiny piece of code, and the computer figures out everything else.
Phil Taylor

What Teachers Need to Know about BYOD ( Bring Your Own Device ) Trend in Education - 0 views

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    "Having technology everywhere in the classroom and not only in the computer lab is an amazing experience for both teachers and students"
Phil Taylor

Attention versus distraction? What that big NY Times story leaves out » Niema... - 0 views

  • robbing kids of their ability to concentrate
  • The question, though, is: distraction from what? And also: What’s inherently wrong with distraction?
  • Formal education, as we’ve framed it, is not only about finding ways to learn more about the things we love, but also, equally, about squelching our aversion to the things we don’t — all in the ecumenical spirit of generalized knowledge.
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  • He just doesn’t care about algebra.
  • The web inculcates a follow your bliss approach to learning that seeps
  • It’s a bottom-up shift that our top-down education systems, and journalism along with them, are grappling with.
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      The real issue? What is the correct balance?
  • It’s not ruining what was; it’s simply moving on. We don’t write like the Romantics anymore, not because we can’t enjoy or appreciate what they write, but because that is simply not the world we live in.
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Googleable vs Non-Googleable Questions \ The Lab - 0 views

  • The Why Every topic, every bit of learning has content that can be Googled, and we don't want teachers wasting precious enquiry time lecturing that content. We want students, instead, to be using class time to collaborate and debate around the questions that are Not Googleable, the rich higher order thinking
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30 years of collaboration towards empowering children to be creative thinkers on Vimeo - 0 views

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    "For the past 30 years, the LEGO Group and the MIT Media Lab have collaborated on projects based on a shared passion for learning through play"
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