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Keri-Lee Beasley

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marco_torres video one students sfett

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 02 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 02 Oct 10
     
    The Power of 1 he video presentation Marco Torres did years back where he shows the student's "Power of One" video and discusses the merits of the video versus the students being required to do a 15 page essay
Katie Day

NSTA Blog: talk about science and science teaching - 0 views

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science early_years teacher_resources

shared by Katie Day on 02 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Katie Day on 02 Oct 10
     
    Category Archives: Early Years -- Tips and classroom resources for early childhood school science educators.
Katie Day

Books Go Global -- Voicethread book reviews by global grade 4 students - 0 views

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voicethread wikispaces book_review international

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  • Katie Day on 04 Oct 10
     
    "Right now, this project is being conducted in English with fourth grade classes around the world, but we would love to open it up to other age ranges and languages over the course of the year. We are actively looking for more partners, so please feel free to sign up here! Once you've signed up, check out the teacher planning page to see how to get started. "
Katie Day

Google Launches Contest to Encourage Kids to Code - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Katie Day on 11 Oct 10
     
    "The Google Open Source Program is announcing a new outreach effort, aimed at 13- to 18-year-old students around the world. Google Code-in will operate in a similar fashion to Google's Summer of Code, giving students the opportunity to work in open-source projects."
Katie Day

'11 the year of the QR Code - 1 views

www.thethinkingstick.com/11-the-year-of-the-qr-code

qrcode

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  • Katie Day on 11 Nov 10
     
    ideas of how QR codes will be used... in education and elsewhere...
Katie Day

Highrise - 0 views

highrise.nfb.ca

films cities documentaries culture

shared by Katie Day on 03 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 03 Nov 10
     
    "HIGHRISE is a multi-year, multi-media, collaborative documentary project about the human experience in global vertical suburbs. Under the direction of documentary-maker Katerina Cizek, the HIGHRISE team will be making lots of things. Web-documentaries, live presentations, installations, mobile projects and yes, documentary films. We will use the acclaimed interventionist and participatory approaches of the award-winning National Film Board of Canada's Filmmaker-in-Residence (FIR) project. Our scale will be global, but rooted firmly in the FIR philosophy - putting people, process, creativity, collaboration, and innovation first."
Katie Day

Welcome - 0 views

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un_day united_nations 2010 biodiversity

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  • Katie Day on 01 Dec 10
     
    The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity. It is a celebration of life on earth and of the value of biodiversity for our lives. The world is invited to take action in 2010 to safeguard the variety of life on earth: biodiversity
Katie Day

FT.com / Global Economy - World's hungry 'close to one billion' - 0 views

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hunger food global_concerns united_nations developing_countries statistics

shared by Katie Day on 30 Nov 10 - Cached
  • The Rome-based organisation said that a preliminary estimate showed the number of undernourished people rose this year by 40m to about 963m people, after rising 75m in 2007. Before the food crisis, there were about 848m chronically hungry people in 2003-05.
  • Prices of agricultural commodities such as wheat, corn and rice jumped to record levels earlier this year, triggering food riots in countries ranging from Haiti to Egypt to Bangladesh and prompting appeals for food aid for more than 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.Although food commodity prices have fallen about 50 per cent from this summer’s all-time highs, they remain well above pre-crisis levels. The cost of rice, for example, has halved since July, but it still trades at prices that are 95 per cent above 2005 levels.
  • The vast majority of the world’s undernourished people – more than 90m – live in developing countries, according to FAO estimates. Of these, 65 per cent live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia. In sub-Saharan Africa, one in three people – or almost 240m – are chronically hungry, the highest proportion of undernourished people in the total population.
  • Katie Day on 30 Nov 10
     
    The food crisis has pushed the number of hungry people in the world to almost 1bn, in what the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation described on Tuesday as a "serious setback" to global efforts to reduce mass starvation.
deb gordon

Worldometers - real time world statistics - 0 views

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mathematics science inquiry statistics world data reference

shared by deb gordon on 30 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Katie Day on 30 Nov 10
     
    Shows ticking numbers of Current World Population, Births this year, Births today, Deaths this year, Deaths today, Net population growth....
  • deb gordon on 17 Nov 12
     
    Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health.
Katie Day

BBC - A History of the World - Explorer - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...explorerflash

G5_conflict history timelines images objects

shared by Katie Day on 06 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Katie Day on 06 Dec 10
     
    "At the heart of the project is the BBC Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 objects. 100 programmes, written and narrated by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, and focusing on 100 objects from the British Museum's collection. The programmes will travel through two million years from the earliest object in the collection to retell the history of humanity through the objects we have made. Each week will be tied to a particular theme, such as 'after the ice age' or 'the beginning of science and literature', and the programmes will broadcast in three blocks, in January, May and September. Deep zoom imagery of the British Museum objects on the site lets you see the detail up close while listening to the programme. You can also watch short videos of many of the objects and download podcasts of each programme as it is broadcast."
Katie Day

When The Water Ends: Africa's Climate Conflicts by : Yale Environment 360 - 0 views

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water g3_water videos global_concerns

shared by Katie Day on 05 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • “When the Water Ends,” a 16-minute video produced by Yale Environment 360 in collaboration with MediaStorm, tells the story of this conflict and of the increasingly dire drought conditions facing parts of East Africa. To report this video, Evan Abramson, a 32-year-old photographer and videographer, spent two months in the region early this year, living among the herding communities. He returned with a tale that many climate scientists say will be increasingly common in the 21st century and beyond — how worsening drought in parts of Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere will pit group against group, nation against nation. As one UN official told Abramson, the clashes between Kenyan and Ethiopian pastoralists represent “some of the world’s first climate-change conflicts.”
  • But the story recounted in “When the Water Ends” is not only about climate change. It’s also about how deforestation and land degradation — due in large part to population pressures — are exacting a toll on impoverished farmers and nomads as the earth grows ever more barren.
  • The video focuses on four groups of pastoralists — the Turkana of Kenya and the Dassanech, Nyangatom, and Mursi of Ethiopia — who are among the more than two dozen tribes whose lives and culture depend on the waters of the Omo River and the body of water into which it flows, Lake Turkana.
Katie Day

In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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cognitive_science creativity ideas thinking

shared by Katie Day on 20 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Jump’s work has elements of management consulting and a bit of design-firm draftsmanship, but its specialty is conceiving new businesses, and what it sells is really the art of innovation. The company is built on the premise that creative thinking is a kind of expertise. Like P.&G. and Mars, you can hire Jump to think on your behalf, for somewhere between $200,000 to $500,000 a month, depending on the complexity and ambiguity of the question you need answered. Or you can ask Jump to teach your corporation how to generate better ideas on its own; Jump imparts that expertise in one- and five-day how-to-brainstorm training sessions that can cost $200,000 for a one-day session for 25 employees.
  • What’s clear is that in recent years, much of corporate America has gone meta — it has started thinking about thinking. And all that thinking has led many executives to the same conclusion: We need help thinking. A few idea entrepreneurs, like Jump, Ideo and Kotter International, are companies with offices and payrolls. But many are solo practitioners, brains for hire who lecture at corporations or consult with them regularly. Each has a catechism and a theory about why good ideas can be so hard to come by and what can be done to remedy the situation.
  • “We’re not only blind to certain things, but we’re blind to the fact that we’re blind to them.”
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  • You often hear this from idea entrepreneurs: Don’t ask us for the answers. Let us help you frame the questions, so you can answer them yourself.
  • At Jump, they prefer to brainstorm with a variation of a technique pioneered in improv theater. A comic offers the first sentence of a story, which lurches into a (hopefully funny) tale, when someone else says, “Yes, and?” then adds another sentence, which leads to another “Yes, and?”— and back and forth it goes. In the context of brainstorming, what was once a contest is transformed into a group exercise in storytelling. It has turned into a collaboration.
  • Why now? Why did innovation-mania take hold in the last decade or so? One school of thought holds that corporations both rise and die faster than ever today, placing a premium on the speedy generation of ideas.
  • Other ideas entrepreneurs offer a “great man” theory, pointing to the enormous influence of Clayton M. Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor and an author of books including “The Innovator’s Dilemma”and “Innovation and the General Manager.”
  • Dev Patnaik of Jump has his own answer to the why-now question. He contends that advances in technology over the past three decades have gradually forced management to reconceive its role in the corporation, shifting its focus from processing data to something more esoteric.
  • “Suddenly it’s about something else. Suddenly it’s about leadership, creativity, vision. Those are the differentiating things, right?” Patnaik draws an analogy to painting, which for centuries was all about rendering reality as accurately as possible, until a new technology — photography — showed up, throwing all those brush-wielding artists into crisis.
  • Most idea entrepreneurs offer what could be described as Osborn deluxe. Govindarajan, the Dartmouth professor, presents companies with what he calls the three-box framework. In Box 1, he puts everything a company now does to manage and improve performance. Box 2 is labeled “selectively forgetting the past,” his way of urging clients to avoid fighting competitors and following trends that are no longer relevant. Box 3 is strategic thinking about the future. “Companies spend all of their time in Box 1, and think they are doing strategy,” he says. “But strategy is really about Box 2 and 3 — the challenge to create the future that will exist in 2020.” He recommends to clients what he calls the 30-30 rule: 30 percent of the people who make strategic decisions should be 30 years old or younger.
  • Katie Day on 20 Dec 10
     
    long article on creativity, innovation, and people who are dedicated to the process of coming up with ideas....
Katie Day

Concord Review Showcases Student Writers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...08research.html

writing secondary_school magazines essays history

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  • Katie Day on 08 Jan 11
     
    "His mood brightens, however, when talk turns to the occasionally brilliant work of the students whose heavily footnoted history papers appear in his quarterly, The Concord Review. Over 23 years, the review has printed 924 essays by teenagers from 44 states and 39 nations. "
Keri-Lee Beasley

Google Zeitgeist 2010 - 1 views

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google zeitgeist 2010 search trends technology

shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 13 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 13 Dec 10
     
    " Based on the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed into Google this year, Zeitgeist captures the spirit of 2010. "
Mary van der Heijden

Building A Reading Community - 0 views

www.thelearningpad.net/id64.html

reading writers workshop

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  • Mary van der Heijden on 30 Dec 10
     
    Some nice literacy ideas for early years writers/readers workshop
Mary van der Heijden

21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020 - THE DAILY RIFF - edustange's... - 0 views

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digital literacy future professional_development

shared by Mary van der Heijden on 22 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • 1. DesksThe 21st century does not fit neatly into rows. Neither should your students. Allow the network-based concepts of flow, collaboration, and dynamism help you rearrange your room for authentic 21st century learning.2. Language LabsForeign language acquisition is only a smartphone away. Get rid of those clunky desktops and monitors and do something fun with that room.3. ComputersOk, so this is a trick answer. More precisely this one should read: 'Our concept of what a computer is'. Because computing is going mobile and over the next decade we're going to see the full fury of individualized computing via handhelds come to the fore. Can't wait.4. Homework
  • Mary van der Heijden on 22 Dec 10
     
    Interesting vision for the next 10 years
Katie Day

AusAID in Indonesia builds schools | Education revolution - 0 views

www.smh.com.au/...that-works-20110209-1an29.html

indonesia education article

shared by Katie Day on 15 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • In 2008, five of the 50 students who finished primary school went on to high school. Last year, the first full year of operations for the high school, 42 of 44 students continued to higher education.
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      Katie Day on 15 Feb 11
       
      Everyone must read this note....
  • Katie Day on 15 Feb 11
     
    article in the Sydney Morning Herald
Katie Day

Giving children the power to be scientists - 1 views

www.eurekalert.org/...uon-gct030911.php

teaching science software free download research primary_school

shared by Katie Day on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 15 Mar 11
     
    "Children who are taught how to think and act like scientists develop a clearer understanding of the subject, a study has shown. The research project led by The University of Nottingham and The Open University has shown that school children who took the lead in investigating science topics of interest to them gained an understanding of good scientific practice. The study shows that this method of 'personal inquiry' could be used to help children develop the skills needed to weigh up misinformation in the media, understand the impact of science and technology on everyday life and help them to make better personal decisions on issues including diet, health and their own effect on the environment. The three-year project involved providing pupils aged 11 to 14 at Hadden Park High School in Bilborough, Nottingham, and Oakgrove School in Milton Keynes with a new computer toolkit named nQuire, now available as a free download for teachers and schools. Running on both desktop PCs and handheld notebook-style devices, the software is a high-tech twist on the traditional lesson plan - guiding the pupils through devising and planning scientific experiments, collecting and analysing data and discussing the results."  Software is free to download
Katie Day

Singapore- Kampong Lorong Buangkok (Part 1 of 3) - YouTube - 0 views

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singapore videos history documentaries

shared by Katie Day on 10 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 10 Mar 11
     
    "This is part 1 of 3 of a 23 min short documentary on the last rural village, or 'kampong', in Singapore - Kampong Lorong Buangkok. This documentary is a product of love, sweat, and mosquito bites, created by a group of final-year students from NTU's School of Communication & Information. All rights reserved by Retrospect Pictures. Feel free to drop us a message for inquiries on usage!"
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