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Keri-Lee Beasley

Dipity - Find, Create, and Embed Interactive Timelines - 1 views

www.dipity.com

timeline tools timelines dipity visualization

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 28 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 28 Feb 11
     
    Timeline creator
Louise Phinney

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/activities/activity18/activity_1... - 1 views

downloads.bbc.co.uk/...activity_18_09-03-26.swf

rocks interactive geology weathering minerals education science

shared by Louise Phinney on 10 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 10 Mar 11
     
    science video about rocks and weathering
Katie Day

Scholastic Poetry Idea Engine - flash game - 2 views

teacher.scholastic.com/...flash_pie.htm

poetry writing interactive primary_school teaching

shared by Katie Day on 12 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Katie Day on 12 Mar 11
     
    shows examples of free verse, haiku, cinquain, and limerick - and lets kids choose words to complete their own.... 
Louise Phinney

Thirstin's Water Cycle - 1 views

www.epa.gov/...flash_watercycle.html

Science watercycle Water interactive

shared by Louise Phinney on 19 May 11 - Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 19 May 11
     
    Simple water cycle graphic
Louise Phinney

MrNussbaum.com - A Thousand Sites in One; Educational Games in math, reading, science, ... - 1 views

www.mrnussbaum.com

math Interactive Reading

shared by Louise Phinney on 04 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 04 Aug 11
     
    some okay games for language arts and math
Jeffrey Plaman

Presentation Link - App for interactive presentations on the iPad for iPad on the iTune... - 0 views

itunes.apple.com/...id441472908

iPad presentation app nonlinear

shared by Jeffrey Plaman on 18 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 18 Sep 11
     
    This looks really interesting for non-linear presentations.
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 18 Sep 11
     
    Really interesting presentation app for ipad.
Mary van der Heijden

Secrets to attention-grabbing IWB content | News | eClassroom News - 1 views

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technology iwb

shared by Mary van der Heijden on 27 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 27 Jun 11
     
    many wonder how to make the jump from passive teacher lectures to truly interactive and engaging lessons.
Jeffrey Plaman

Facilitating Learner Voice and Presence in the Classroom Using Mobile Devices... - 1 views

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Learner voice presence team mobile

shared by Jeffrey Plaman on 15 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 15 Oct 11
     
    This post shows some ideas on how you can leverage mobile content created by students to build community and give them a platform for interaction.
Sean McHugh

Education Update:Finding New Ways to Assess Students' Learning:Purposeful Reflection - 0 views

www.ascd.org/...Purposeful-Reflection.aspx

shared by Sean McHugh on 31 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Purposeful reflection is a critical attribute for innovative lesson planning, for meaningful interaction with adults, for increasing student achievement, for effective supervision and evaluation, for good curriculum design, and for assessment with understanding
  • A reflective school culture, Prolman remarked, makes the "thought muscles" stronger for both teachers and students and is directly related to higher achievement.
David Caleb

Children benefit from the right sort of screen time - life - 26 March 2014 - New Scientist - 2 views

www.newscientist.com/...right-sort-of-screen-time.html

screentime technology

shared by David Caleb on 25 Nov 14 - No Cached
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    • David Caleb
      David Caleb on 25 Nov 14
       
      Great quote - no effect on those that played video games.
  • When you separate the different types of screen out, the effects start to vary.
  • "It doesn't say anything about what you're using that time for."
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  • For instance, a recent longitudinal study of 11,000 British children found that those who watched TV for 3 hours or more a day at age 5 had a small increase in behavioural problems two years later compared with those who watched for under an hour. But they found no effects at all for those who played computer games.
  • Passively watching TV is not the same as learning to read on a touchscreen, which is not the same as killing monsters on a console
  • First of all, lumping all screens into one category is not helpful. "Screen time is a really enticing measure because it's simple – it's usually described as the number of hours a day using screen-based technology. But it's completely meaningless,"
  • "The best research suggests that the content children view is the best predictor of cognitive effects,"
  • But they found no effects at all for those who played computer games.
  • "Children will learn from what they watch, whether that means learning letters and numbers, slapstick humour or aggressive behaviour,
  • The study found that all the children enjoy reading more when they look at stories using books and a touchscreen compared to just books.
  • children who watch age-appropriate, educational TV programmes often do better on tests of school readiness.
  • rise in BMI
  • hard to tease apart whether screen time actually causes the effects or whether they are linked in some other way
  • "It is impossible to determine with certainty that TV is causing obesity, and it is likely that other factors are involved in the complex problem of childhood obesity,
  • Her own studies have shown that children who struggle to learn using books often made more progress with iPads.
  • research in schools also found that iPads made children more cooperative and helped quieter kids to speak up
  • children receive immediate feedback
  • But they found no effects at all for those who played computer games
  • What is becoming clear is that it's not the technologies themselves we should be worried out but how they are used and how people interact with them
  • A lot of it is common sense. Don't unthinkingly hand over your device. There are educational apps whose benefits are backed up by research, says Flewitt.
  • Five hours sitting in front of the TV is not the same as 5 hours of some TV, a couple of hours playing on Dance Dance Revolution or some other kind of active game, followed by a Skype session with a grandparent.
Sean McHugh

Stop taking notes and start learning - - 1 views

www.5027mac.org/16452

learning notes

shared by Sean McHugh on 13 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • As early as I can remember, we were told to take notes.
  • during that conversation, I paid attention to more than just what was being said; I watched eye movement, body language, and every other form of nonverbal communication. I wasn’t just listening, I was engaging in an interaction. It was then that I found myself wondering, how much was I missing in other classes because I was too busy taking notes?
  • I started to challenge myself not to take notes during other classes and to actively listen, instead
Sean McHugh

The Scientific Case For Teaching Cursive Handwriting to Your Kids Is Weaker Than You Think - 2 views

nautil.us/...ting-and-other-education-myths

teaching handwriting research

shared by Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • here is ample evidence that writing by hand aids cognition in ways that typing does not: It’s well worth teaching. And I confess I’m old-fashioned enough to think that, regardless of proven cognitive benefits, a good handwriting style is an important and valuable skill, not only when your laptop batteries run out but as an expression of personality and character.
  • if they have the time and inclination.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      But should we be dedicating swathes of curriculum time towards this? Surely not.
  • what teachers “know” about how children learn is sometimes more a product of the culture in which they’re immersed than a result of research and data.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Never were truer words written.
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  • What does research say on these issues? It has consistently failed to find any real advantage of cursive over other forms of handwriting
  • our real understanding of how children respond to different writing styles is surprisingly patchy and woefully inadequate
  • Evidence supports teaching both formats of handwriting and then letting each student choose which works best for him or her
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Shouldn't we include touch typing here as well?
  • So was cursive faster than manuscript? No, it was slower. But fastest of all was a personalized mixture of cursive and manuscript developed spontaneously by pupils around the fourth to fifth grade
  • They had apparently imbibed manuscript style from their reading experience (it more closely resembles print), even without being taught it explicitly
  • While pupils writing in cursive were slower on average, their handwriting was also typically more legible than that of pupils taught only manuscript. But the mixed style allowed for greater speed with barely any deficit in legibility.
  • The grip that cursive has on teaching is sustained by folklore and prejudice
  • freeing up cognitive resources that are otherwise devoted to the challenge of simply making the more elaborate cursive forms on paper will leave children more articulate and accurate in what they write
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      Likewise if they can touch-type instead of wrestling with ascenders and descenders...
  • for typical children, there’s some reason to think manuscript has advantages
  • the difference in appearance between cursive and manuscript could inhibit the acquisition of reading skills, making it harder for children to transfer skills between learning to read and learning to write because they simply don’t see cursive in books.
  • There’s good evidence, both behavioral and neurological, that a “haptic” (touch-related) sense of letter shapes can aid early reading skills, indicating a cognitive interaction between motor production and visual recognition of letters. That’s one reason, incidentally, why it’s valuable to train children to write by hand at all, not just to use a keyboard.
  • even if being taught both styles might have some advantages, it’s not clear that those cognitive resources and classroom hours couldn’t be better deployed in other ways.
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
       
      In other ways... the time it takes for kids to learn cursive, spread over years, compared to the relatively short time it takes to master touch-typing being a case in point.
  • that cursive is still taught primarily because of parental demand and tradition, rather than because there is any scientific basis for its superiority in learning
  • inertia and preconceptions seem to distort perception and policy at the expense of the scientific evidence
  • How much else in education is determined by what’s “right,” rather than what’s supported by evidence?
  • Beliefs about cursive are something of a hydra: You cut off one head, and another sprouts. These beliefs propagate through both the popular and the scientific literature, in a strange mixture of uncritical reporting and outright invention, which depends on myths often impossible to track to a reliable source.
  • the reasons to reject cursive handwriting as a formal part of the curriculum far outweigh the reasons to keep it.
  • This must surely lead us to wonder how much else in education is determined by a belief in what is “right,” unsupported by evidence.
  • it’s often the case that the very lack of hard, objective evidence about an issue, especially in the social sciences, encourages a reliance on dogma instead
  • There needs to be wider examination of the extent to which evidence informs education. Do we heed it enough? Or is what children learn determined more by precedent and cultural or institutional norms?
  • Sean McHugh on 01 Oct 16
     
    There needs to be wider examination of the extent to which evidence informs education. Do we heed it enough? Or is what children learn determined more by precedent and cultural or institutional norms?
Sean McHugh

Digital media can enhance family life, says LSE study - 1 views

amp.theguardian.com/...nce-family-life-says-lse-study

study digital media family research screen time

shared by Sean McHugh on 07 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • engaging in digital media activities together such as watching films, playing video games and keeping in touch via calls and messaging apps brings families together rather than dividing them
  • rather than displacing established ways of interacting, playing and communicating – digital media sit alongside them
  • the report’s authors highlighted parents’ concerns about “screen time”, which is a source of conflict in homes, though sleep and behaviour cause more disagreement. They also flag up a lack of support for parents who may face particular challenges regarding their child or family’s digital media use. Whereas on other issues they might turn to their own parents for advice, the digital generation gap means they are unlikely to be able to help
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  • traditional, shared activities persist in families, alongside newer digital activities
  • Rather than worrying about the overall amount of screen time children get, it might be better to support parents, many of whom are digital natives themselves, in deciding whether, when and why particular digital activities help or harm their child, and what to do about it
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