"It's amazing what you can do with boxes and junk," he says.
That could almost be the slogan of the New York Coalition for Play, which provided the boxes and junk. The nonprofit association ran one of the two dozen booths at the Ultimate Block Party, an event last fall that brought together companies like Disney, Crayola, and Lego, along with researchers from Columbia and MIT, and attracted thousands of parents and children. The goal was to "celebrate the science of play" and to push back against the notion that education happens only when students are seated at their desks, staring at chalkboards, and scribbling furiously in their notebooks.
Appsfire - 0 views
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discover and share apps
I Education Apps Review - I Education Apps Review - 0 views
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apps review
Slide to Learn - 0 views
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slide to learn conference, could be good to make connections, has a twitter feed
Using iPod Touches in the Kindergarten Classroom - 0 views
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using ipods in kindergarten blog
Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Blog - Slide2Learn Ustream Session - 0 views
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learning in hand - using ipads and ipods in the classroom
Actually Going to Class? How 20th-Century. - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 0 views
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Interesting to think how this relates to primary and secondary education.... not just tertiary..... "In an era when students can easily grab material online, including lectures by gifted speakers in every field, a learning environment that avoids courses completely-or seriously reshapes them-might produce a very effective new form of college. That was the provocative notion posed here recently by Randy Bass, executive director of Georgetown University's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, during the annual meeting of the Educause Learning Initiative. He pointed out that much of what students rate as the most valuable part of their learning experience at college these days takes place outside the traditional classroom, citing data from the National Survey of Student Engagement, an annual study based at Indiana University at Bloomington. Four of the eight "high-impact" learning activities identified by survey participants required no classroom time at all: internships, study-abroad programs, senior thesis or other "capstone" projects, or the mundane-sounding "undergraduate research," meaning working with faculty members on original research, much as graduate students do."
The Case for Play - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views
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Within the world of those who take play seriously, there are multiple camps, each with its own dearly held tenets. There are the Free Players, who argue that play is a human right and that adults should more or less leave kids alone. There are the Play Skeptics, who see play as useful for blowing off steam but are dubious about its cognitive upside. And there are Play Moderates, who advocate a mix of free play, adult-guided play, and traditional classroom instruction.
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"How a handful of researchers are trying to save childhood" by Tom Barlett.... Interesting article on the range of research on the importance of play.... I will be buying some of the books mentioned in the article for the PD collection of the library.
inquirers.org - for thinking about learning - 0 views
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Posted on 03/05/2011 10:17 am by Simon Davidson Project overview The current project of the inquirers.org team is a research project on the traits of successful people, and how they relate to their educational experience and learning from life outside schools and colleges. The research question is What are the traits of successful people? - What are the underlying common traits that lead to success? - Are they different in different fields/cultures - How do they link to curriculum outcomes and other effects of education? This will be developed into a book and proposals for educational reform. The main authors are Simon Davidson and Lindsey Ferrie.
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a website/blog by Lindsey Ferrie & Simon Davidson (author of "Taking the PYP Forward"
Submit your questions to "Science Question from a Toddler" - Boing Boing - 1 views
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A great chance to submit the questions you've heard little kids ask about science.... Look forward to Maggie Koerth-Baker discussing some of the them....
Video: Garbage - what exactly fills a dump (engineerguy) - 1 views
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example of a video from EngineerGuy -- re the need for green design -- things that can come apart in order to be recycled
dy/dan - 0 views
Free Technology for Teachers - 2 views
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Infographic World - 12 Interesting Infographics Infographics can be
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Make a fake Facebook wall for a book character (or anyone else!)
TED to Name Winners of Video Ad Contest on Thursday - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"At the annual TED conference in Long Beach, Calif., organizers on Thursday are to announce the winners of the inaugural TED Ads Worth Spreading Challenge, a contest the group began in December to get advertisers to create online marketing videos that people actually want to watch, said Chris Anderson, the curator of the conference."
A Journey through Climate History - 1 views
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climate history information, user friendly
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