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How Do You Play - 0 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 21 Mar 13
     
    instructions for all sorts of games, active games, board games, card games, classroom games, ice breakers etc
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Google Keep: Worth Trying, with Caution | TIME.com - 0 views

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  • Katie Day on 22 Mar 13
     
    "As expected, Google has flipped the switch on Google Keep, a dead-simple website and Android app for recording notes, checklists, images and audio. Also as expected, there's no shortage of tech pundits - still sore from Google's decision to shut down Google Reader - telling you to stay far, far away. As we witnessed with Reader, you can't trust Google to keep products around anymore, even popular ones, if they don't fit the company's long-term strategies. So maybe Google Keep won't exist in five years - it's still worth trying. "
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Janell Burley Hofmann: To My 13-Year-Old, An iPhone Contract From Your Mom, With Love - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 22 Mar 13
     
    An iPhone contract that went viral
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The Touch-Screen Generation - Hanna Rosin - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 22 Mar 13
     
    Great read about the Touch Screen Generation & technology. Challenges the status quo in a well articulated way.
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Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Makes Learning Better | TIME.com - 0 views

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  • the “learning paradox”: the more you struggle and even fail while you’re trying to master new information, the better you’re likely to recall and apply that information later.
  • let the neophytes wrestle with the material on their own for a while, refraining from giving them any assistance at the start.
  • These students weren’t able to complete the problems correctly. But in the course of trying to do so, they generated a lot of ideas about the nature of the problems and about what potential solutions would look like. And when the two groups were tested on what they’d learned, the second group “significantly outperformed” the first.
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  • The apparent struggles of the floundering group have what Kapur calls a “hidden efficacy”: they lead people to understand the deep structure of problems, not simply their correct solutions.
  • they’re able to transfer the knowledge they’ve gathered more effectively than those who were the passive recipients of someone else’s expertise.
  • “design for productive failure” by building it into the learning process.
  • Sean McHugh on 24 Mar 13
     
    " Kapur has identified three conditions that promote this kind of beneficial struggle. First, choose problems to work on that "challenge but do not frustrate." Second, provide learners with opportunities to explain and elaborate on what they're doing. Third, give learners the chance to compare and contrast good and bad solutions to the problems. And to those students and workers who protest this tough-love teaching style: you'll thank me later." Originally shared by JPL! Still awesome. (yes, you Jeff, and this article)
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Do Violent Games Lead Kids Astray? - IGN - 0 views

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  • dialogue is far removed, however, from the intensely heated conflict that exists at the smaller, more personal scale. On the one hand you have the millions of Americans who play games, whether on a console or a smartphone, and have been raised in a time where such things are ubiquitous. On the other is a (generally older) population whose exposure to games has been limited to the most visible examples of the medium, including billion-dollar series like Call of Duty and notorious time sinks like FarmVille that paint a limited portrait of gaming's full range.
  • "You’re not wrong to be concerned about the time your son spends playing video games," wrote Moody. "But let me ask you this: If there were no video games here, wouldn’t there be some other stimulus that could threaten his time by diverting his attention away from, wait, what did you call it? 'What I feel are much more worthwhile and ultimately rewarding pursuits.’ 
  • fears about video games are understandable. Like anything else, they can become the focal point of unhealthy behavior all too easily, a point Moody is quick to emphasize. As Moody says again and again, though, that’s hardly the fault of video games.
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  • Video games actually encourage problem solving and memory skills in young people. "[Children] have to discover the rules of the game and how to think strategically,"
  • Even video games that can horrify with their grisly depictions of violence have benefits that individuals like ADCP are unaware of due to an unwillingness to engage the material.
  • some studies are finding that video games can help improve people’s quality of life for longer.
  • their results point to the need for more study. They don’t know for sure if it’s the games that improves mental health in seniors, or simply the mental activity they stimulate.
  • Video games are just tools, outlets for people to express themselves in as vast a variety of ways as anything else. They are still relatively new creations, and the unknown can frighten anyone, hence the uproar that’s followed games for years. The same uproar and indignation that followed rock and roll in the '50s and novels in the 19th century.
  • This is why the Violent Content Research Act of 2013 is ultimately a good thing. It will lead to, ideally, a deeper understanding of how we interact with games. For parents, children, players, academics, and everyone else with a vested interest in a gaming future, the most important thing is to maintain perspective.
  • Sean McHugh on 24 Mar 13
     
    "Video games are just tools, outlets for people to express themselves in as vast a variety of ways as anything else. They are still relatively new creations, and the unknown can frighten anyone, hence the uproar that's followed games for years. The same uproar and indignation that followed rock and roll in the '50s and novels in the 19th century. This is why the Violent Content Research Act of 2013 is ultimately a good thing. It will lead to, ideally, a deeper understanding of how we interact with games. For parents, children, players, academics, and everyone else with a vested interest in a gaming future, the most important thing is to maintain perspective."
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2013 Horizon.K12: The Interim Results | The New Media Consortium - 0 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 25 Mar 13
     
    The NMC is pleased to announce the interim results of the 2013 Horizon.K12 Project, as presented at the 2013 CoSN Conference in San Diego. The Horizon Project Advisory Board voted for the top 12 emerging technologies as well as the top ten trends and challenges that they believe will have a significant impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in global K-12 education over the next five years. These initial results will be compiled into an interim report, known as the "Short List," and described in further detail.
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Avenue4Learning - The Tool Isn't The Problem - 1 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 25 Mar 13
     
    Blog post about a schools experience with ipads
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Millennial Students and Middle-aged Faculty: A Learner-centered Approach | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 25 Mar 13
     
    "The problem is my age. It relentlessly advances while the faces staring back at me in the classroom remain the same, fixed between late adolescence and early adulthood. In short, I grow old while my students do not. And the increasing gap between our ages causes me some concern, pedagogically speaking." Perhaps figuring out how to honor the two perspectives in the classroom can offer us the best of both worlds: a learner-centered classroom for both teacher and student.
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How to Foster Grit, Tenacity and Perseverance: An Educator's Guide | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Sean McHugh on 26 Mar 13
     
    "How can we best prepare children and adolescents to thrive in the 21st century? This question is at the heart of what every educator attempts to do on a daily basis. Apart from imparting content of knowledge and facts, however, it's becoming clear that the "noncognitive competencies" known as grit, perseverance, and tenacity are just as important, if not more so, in preparing kids to be self-sufficient and successful."
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How Free Play Can Define Kids' Success | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Creativity plays an integral part of developing these seven skill sets.
  • Keeping children on rigid, academically driven schedules denies them the space for some of the real self-learning that will see them through unexpected challenges, the ones that aren’t on the test.
  • Sean McHugh on 26 Mar 13
     
    "one of the most important skills a parent can foster in children is resilience, which he says can be fostered through creativity. Ginsburg relies on the "Seven C's of Resilience" as a road map for helping students to find their inner grit. "
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20 High Quality Free Fonts for Designers - StumbleUpon - 1 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 28 Mar 13
     
    Great fonts for designers. Beautiful!
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Ask H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts - StumbleUpon - 1 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 28 Mar 13
     
    Excellent article on how to combine fonts. Really useful
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Storyline Online - 0 views

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  • Sean McHugh on 29 Mar 13
     
    Um. ONline stories - read aloud my Hollywood super stars!
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