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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Ching Lam

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Teaching Tolerance - 0 views

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    Tolerance.org is a great website that provides free educational materials for educators. Using the materials, the website promotes the idea of caring about diversity, equal opportunity and respect for differences in schools. The news, conversation and support of the website often provokes many thoughts of the educators with regard of the tolerance in the schools. Furthermore, the website provides various lesson plans. All of the lesson plans are customized for PreK-12 classrooms, which are particular useful and practical to help students learn respect for differences. In addition, when subscribed the website can send multicultural educational magazine, which is a useful media for educators to read in spare time.
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Webonauts - 0 views

shared by Ching Lam on 10 Apr 13 - No Cached
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    Webonauts is created by PBSKids.org to educate kids about important skills they need to know when they spend time online. Through the Webonauts Internet Academy adventure, kids pick their suit and helmet to explore different places and make choices that reflect what they will likely encounter while surfing the Internet in real life. Webonauts Internet Academy provides important rules or lessons a kid needs to understand about safety on the Internet with various missions. Each mission offers the child subtle clues on making the right decisions about their online activities. For example, it advises kids to show respect to others and only go to sites where the kid supposed to go. It also embed the idea that one should never giving out his/her passwords, family address, credit card information, or any other personal information to other people on line.
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SafeKids.Com - 0 views

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    The site provides lots of tips, advice, and suggestions to help parents keep their kids safe and away from the risks online. For example, it provides advice on how to prevent exposure to inappropriate material, physical molestation, harassment and bullying. It even has important information on keeping computer viruses and hacking in check, parental control of family computer, and online dating. The site also provides tools to promote the safety of the kids. For example, The Safe Kids Song serves as a great tool for teaching kids skills on Internet safety; The Online Safety Quiz helps a pre-teen how to be a safe Internet surfer. Overall, this is a very useful website for concerning parents to manage their kids' online activities and to educate their kids on Internet and computer safety.
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Flipped Classroom: Beyond the Videos - 0 views

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    To the author, the flipped classroom is not just a model where teachers must record videos or podcast for students to view at home; it has much more content that people have missed. The author pointed out that the advantage of the flipped classroom is that instruction can take place in different mediums. She also suggested that inside a flipped classroom, educators should be able to design collaborative, creative, student-centered activities and assignments to fully engage students' learning potentials.
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'Flipped Learning' Classroom Model Embraced By Teachers In Schools Nationwide - 0 views

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    This is a news article reporting the increasing use of the classroom model of 'flipped learning' nationwide and its overall positive impact on the student learning. The article also discussed the downsides of the "flipped learning". A video titled of "Flipped classrooms: an inexpensive solution to education reform?" is also included. The video discussed the pro and con of the flipped learning, with most of the downsides of the flipped learning getting addressed in the interview.
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The Flipped Classroom Defined - 0 views

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    This site is a great summary of the flipped classroom. It introduces flipped classroom and goes on to detail what the flipped classroom model does, how it works, and how it looks like. Each of the description is short but precise in nature. This kind of simple illustration gives readers a clear understanding of what a flipped classroom is. In addition, the site also provides statistics of the effect of using the flipped classroom, which suggest an overall positive result after usage.
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