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iPads in Kindergarten: tools or toys? | KC - 1 views

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Keri-Lee Beasley on 27 Feb 12

Nice post explaining that iPads in Kindergarten should clearly be seen as tools for learning, not toys. Some good ways to use them here...

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KP 2010-11 made a video to help the new KP class and their parents learn about kinderga... - 2 views

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Louise Phinney on 14 Aug 11

Blog from Yokohama Kindergarten teacher Zoe Page, with a video the children made to show parents their day at school

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Using iPod Touches in the Kindergarten Classroom - 0 views

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Using Instagram to Encourage Writing in Kindergarten | Exploring Digital Media in Educa... - 3 views

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Like this idea!

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Watch your child discover Kindergarten. | KP - 0 views

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a short video from Zoe Page at YIS introducing parents what happens in the class

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First Grade- Creating a Hebrew Visual Dictionary on the iPad | Langwitches Blog - 0 views

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Mary van der Heijden on 11 Nov 12

Kitah Alef, our first graders, received an introductory lesson on properly handling our iPads in the classroom. We created a short video of our rules and tips. Students were excited to be sharing the video with Kindergarten and Pre-schoolers in the future, so they could learn from them.well

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Kitah Alef, our first graders, received an introductory lesson on properly handling our iPads in the classroom. We created a short video of our rules and tips. Students were excited to be sharing the video with Kindergarten and Pre-schoolers in the future, so they could learn from them.well</div>

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Mathematically Speaking | kindergartenlife - 3 views

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shared by Mary van der Heijden on 11 Nov 12 - No Cached

Mary van der Heijden on 11 Nov 12

One of the most powerful things I have learned is how amazing young children are in their thinking around mathematical concepts. In Kindergarten I began developing a culture that not only had examples and artifacts of our learning, but ways for children to begin to use "math talk", which is the language I began modeling in explicit ways for children to see and began to practice in their own understanding of the concepts we are exploring. Through daily, explicit modeling through our daily number corner, math dyads and other mathematical work stations the children began to apply their understanding in meaningful ways throughout the day which has helped to build self-confidence in all of the children. What is important to understand here is that I did have to add something new onto my already full plate, but rather this was an opportunity to learn some new tools and a different way of thinking about what I was already teaching. This is one example of where I started to see how rigor and relevance applied in my teaching and how vital it is and has become in my daily teaching practice.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">One of the most powerful things I have learned is how amazing young children are in their thinking around mathematical concepts. In Kindergarten I began developing a culture that not only had examples and artifacts of our learning, but ways for children to begin to use "math talk", which is the language I began modeling in explicit ways for children to see and began to practice in their own understanding of the concepts we are exploring. Through daily, explicit modeling through our daily number corner, math dyads and other mathematical work stations the children began to apply their understanding in meaningful ways throughout the day which has helped to build self-confidence in all of the children. What is important to understand here is that I did have to add something new onto my already full plate, but rather this was an opportunity to learn some new tools and a different way of thinking about what I was already teaching. This is one example of where I started to see how rigor and relevance applied in my teaching and how vital it is and has become in my daily teaching practice.</div>

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Everything I know about engagement I learned in kindergarten - Home - Doug Jo... - 1 views

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Behind the Scenes, Part 2 - Creating a Rubric | Scholastic.com - 1 views

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Louise Phinney on 09 Mar 12

One way to empower students is to involve them in the process of analyzing their learning and evaluating their work. When they do, true learning takes place, way beyond the intended curriculum. READ ON to see how you can create rubrics with your students to evaluate student-created videos, writing, or other projects. Included are two examples of rubrics my kindergarten students made to evaluate their digital photo story and our class movie.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">One way to empower students is to involve them in the process of analyzing their learning and evaluating their work. When they do, true learning takes place, way beyond the intended curriculum. READ ON to see how you can create rubrics with your students to evaluate student-created videos, writing, or other projects. Included are two examples of rubrics my kindergarten students made to evaluate their digital photo story and our class movie.</div>

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Fighting Bullying With Babies - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Katie Day on 17 Nov 10 - No Cached

It seems that it’s not only possible to make people kinder, it’s possible to do it systematically at scale – at least with school children. That’s what one organization based in Toronto called Roots of Empathy has done. Around babies, tough kids smile, disruptive kids focus, shy kids open up. Roots of Empathy was founded in 1996 by Mary Gordon, an educator who had built Canada’s largest network of school-based parenting and family-literacy centers after having worked with neglectful and abusive parents. Gordon had found many of them to be lacking in empathy for their children. They hadn’t developed the skill because they hadn’t experienced or witnessed it sufficiently themselves. She envisioned Roots as a seriously proactive parent education program – one that would begin when the mothers- and fathers-to-be were in kindergarten.
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Here’s how it works: Roots arranges monthly class visits by a mother and her baby (who must be between two and four months old at the beginning of the school year). Each month, for nine months, a trained instructor guides a classroom using a standard curriculum that involves three 40-minute visits – a pre-visit, a baby visit, and a post-visit. The program runs from kindergarten to seventh grade. During the baby visits, the children sit around the baby and mother (sometimes it’s a father) on a green blanket (which represents new life and nature) and they try to understand the baby’s feelings. The instructor helps by labeling them. “It’s a launch pad for them to understand their own feelings and the feelings of others,” explains Gordon. “It carries over to the rest of class.”
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Katie Day on 17 Nov 10

how bringing babies into schools can help students develop empathy... and lessen bullying and aggression....

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Telling Time in Many Ways - 1 views

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shared by Louise Phinney on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached

Louise Phinney on 04 Oct 11

Canadian teacher, turned American tutor, Laurie Laurendeau, found herself being asked by parents about various ways in which they can help their children at home with Math concepts. So she started a blog to address many of these questions. Laurie targets parents of students in Kindergarten to Grade 3, and writes a new blog each week and covers all the strands of Math (Number Sense, Measurement, Computation, Geometry, Problem-Solving).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Canadian teacher, turned American tutor, Laurie Laurendeau, found herself being asked by parents about various ways in which they can help their children at home with Math concepts. So she started a blog to address many of these questions. Laurie targets parents of students in Kindergarten to Grade 3, and writes a new blog each week and covers all the strands of Math (Number Sense, Measurement, Computation, Geometry, Problem-Solving).</div>

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» Twitter in KC - how and why? KC-5101 - 0 views

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Keri-Lee Beasley on 18 Mar 13

A teacher from Shekou International School explains how they use Twitter as a part of their writing workshop and to learn about the world.

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Wix.com advent created by ktenkely based on Kindergarten - 2 views

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A neat advent calendar of Web2.0 tools - very cleverly done, and beautiful images. A super idea for a blog.

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Digital Kindergarten - 6 views

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Facebook and family communication

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iPad apps - yiskg@weebly.com - 1 views

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shared by Louise Phinney on 02 May 11 - No Cached

Louise Phinney on 02 May 11

List of apps used in Yokohama

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Screen Time? How about Creativity Time? - Mitchel Resnick - Medium - 1 views

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Too often, designers of educational materials and activities simply add a thin layer of technology and gaming over antiquated curriculum and pedagogy
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  I think because the designers of these apps are not educators and are therefore assuming that they often traditional education they experienced is the norm or at the very least is still a desirable outcome for the kids that they are designing their Apps for.
  
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But I’m also sure that some students found it very discouraging and disempowering. And the activity put an emphasis on questions that can be answered quickly with right and wrong answers — certainly not the type of questions that I would prioritize in a classroom.
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In many cases, the skeptics apply very different standards to new technologies than to “old” technologies. They worry about the antisocial impact of a child spending hours working on a computer, while they don’t have any concerns about a child spending the same time reading a book. They worry that children interacting with computers don’t spend enough time outside, but they don’t voice similar concerns about children playing musical instruments. I’m not suggesting that there are no reasons for concern. I’m just asking for more consistency.
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For kids growing up today, laptops and mobile phones aren’t high-tech tools — they’re everyday tools, just like crayons and watercolors.
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Of course there’s a problem if children spend all their time interacting with screens — just as there would be a problem if they spent all their time playing the violin or reading books or playing sports. Spending all your time on any one thing is problematic. But the most important issue with screen time is not quantity but quality. There are many ways of interacting with screens; it doesn’t make sense to treat them all the same
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Rather than trying to minimize screen time, I think parents and teachers should try to maximize creative time. The focus shouldn’t be on which technologies children are using, but rather what children are doing with them
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