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Maggie Verster

Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children's Learning (pdf ebook) - 7 views

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    The report Pockets of Potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children's Learning, by Cooney Center Industry Fellow Carly Shuler, makes the case that our nation's leaders should not overlook the role mobile technologies can play, if well deployed, in building human capital and in helping to stimulate valuable innovation. As Sesame Street has proven over four decades of remarkable work, exposure to research-tested educational media starting early in life can accelerate children's skills, while producing enduring economic benefi ts to society. Pockets of Potential argues that despite legitimate public concern about the "disruptive track record" of mobile devices in schools, there is reason to be excited about their potential. As an analysis of key industry trends, opportunities, and challenges, including small-scale studies of academic and industry projects, the paper recommends a series of urgent action steps for key sectors to consider. Of particular note are the promising innovations developed by an international group of mobile technology thought leaders - from Silicon Valley to Seoul to sub-Saharan Africa - whose pioneering work is featured in this report and its appendices. The report joins a series of studies the Cooney Center has undertaken since launching one year ago. We hope to stimulate a new debate that will lead industry, funders, scholars, and caregivers to consider how the devices children now rely upon as their social currency may one day help them learn essential skills needed for success. As Mrs. Cooney recently noted, "Now is the time to turn the new media that children have a natural attraction to into learning tools that will build their knowledge and broaden their perspectives." Unless we do, the gulf between what children do informally and in school will widen, diminishing the educational opportunities all of our children need and deserve.
Maggie Verster

Introducing iLearn4Free: educational apps for little learners - 8 views

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    English is a foreign language for 95% of the world's children. Yet almost all digital literacy tools for young children are written in English. Mobile learning is therefore out of reach for all but those very few children prepared to start learning a foreign language before they have mastered their own. Isabelle Duston, a self-professed "serial entrepreneur" decided to tackle the problem by creating educational applications that will bridge the digital language divide without losing cultural diversity in the learning process. Her iLearn4Free venture is developing apps in several languages for teaching little ones how to read in their native language.
Joseph Alvarado

Zac Browser | Zone for Autistic Children - 16 views

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    Great internet browser designed for autistic children.
mbarek Akaddar

5 Fun and Safe Social Networks for Children - 15 views

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    5 Fun and Safe Social Networks for Children
Maria da Luz Delfino

Learn to Read at Starfall - teaching comprehension and phonics - 1 views

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    A free website to teach children to read. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Contains exciting interactive books and phonics games.
Cara Whitehead

Summer Program - 1 views

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    VocabularySpellingCity has a new summer word study program that allows children to sharpen academic skills as they play. These simple assignments are a daily workout for the brain, building literacy skills such as vocabulary, spelling, and writing.
Ana Gerin

We are Busy Beavers - English Songs + Videos for Children and Preschool Kids - 7 views

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    Great videos and activities for kids!
Gilmar Mattos

KidRex - Kid Safe Search - 0 views

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    When parents ask about web filters or express concern about their children finding inappropriate websites, KidRex may be a resource to recommend to them
Maggie Verster

Edubuntu- all you need! - 1 views

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    Edubuntu is an educational operating system that is a part of the Ubuntu family. It aims to make Ubuntu, the popular Linux-based operating system, a great choice for the computing needs of children, students, parents, teachers, and schools.
Daniela Campos

Boowa and Kwala Home - songs, games, stories... - 13 views

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    This is a very interesting website that has interactive videos, music, educational games and many other ways of teaching children. Children have fun and learn simultaneously.
mbarek Akaddar

GiftedSpeech - 4 views

  • Children aged 4 to 10 have a unique ability to acquire the phonetics of any language. Our fun games and animated videos tap into this gift, giving children a multi-language foundation so they can speak any language with an authentic accent.
Maggie Verster

Saferpedia - 6 views

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    "Saferpedia.eu is an online encyclopedia that includes definitions and resources about Internet safety, developed within Sigur.info project. Sigur.info is a project aiming to raise awareness and information on safer Internet navigation for children."
Joseph Alvarado

Adults Fooled by Visual Illusion, But Not Kids | Wired Science | Wired.com - 8 views

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    When visual context is misleading, adults literally see the world less accurately than they did as children,"
Alexandre Oliveira

Rationale for educational blogging | EduBlog Insights - 2 views

    • Alexandre Oliveira
       
      Must we always talk about 'children' as the learners?
  • skills and concepts
  • help teachers learn to use blogs
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  • writing for a public audience
  • cite and link
  • comment tool
  • how to read web materials m
  • sharing opinions
  • grow communities of discourse and knowledge
  • knowledge as interconnected
  • meaning of voice
  • ownership and choice
  • worldwide audience
  • skills to foster a contributing audience on their blog.
  • archive feature
  • opportunity for collective and collaborative learning
  • possibility of connecting with experts
  • interactive nature
  • creates enthusiasm for writing
  • engages students in conversation and learning
  • global conversations
  • learn to write for life-long learning
  • teach responsible public writing
Alexandre Oliveira

Blogs and Pedagogy | EduBlog Insights - 7 views

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      children again: elementary and high school students. How about the adult learner, who comes from a pre-Internet existence, or learning experience.
  • meaning of voice.
  • hesitant to speak in a classroom will share their ideas on a blog
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  • dialogue that goes on in our classrooms about our learning through blogging
  • promote critical thought
  • social construction of meaning
  • blogs to be constructivist tools for learning
Eric G. Young

Free Tools and Resources about Internet Safety - 7 views

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    List of internet safety tools and resources to keep kids protected while they are online
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