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Eye to Eye with Child Labour - Save the Childen
Eye to Eye with child labour seeks to bring to life issues around children and work, through stimulating teaching resources based around the photos and stories of working children themselves.
These resources will allow us to see the world through their eyes and to better understand the challenges they face and some of the reasons why they work.
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21st Century Literacies: Tools for Reading the World
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n Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes." Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to choose and modify their own communication based on the rhetorical situation. Point of view is created by the reader, the audience and the medium.
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Debate: educational value of video games
In this lesson, students consider the educational value of video games by examining what books and video games have in common and debating whether playing video games leads to improved literacy skills.
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Calliope: Muse of Eloquence
Use knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology to understand the origin and meaning of new words.se of the conventions of punctuation and capitalization.
Use knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology to understand the origin and meaning of new words
Demonstrate use of sophisticated technology by following technical directions.
Produce legible work that shows accurate spelling and correct use of the conventions of punctuation and capitalization. -
ARTKids Debate: Homeschooling
It wasn't that long ago, that the average child did not attended any form of public schooling. Usually they were needed to work at home or in the family business. Those that did attend school either went to a one room school house in their community, or were taught at home. There's an astonishing list of successful adults that never attended what we now call "public school".
