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For a bit of humor in your Day, Saturday, April 7 is national "no housework" day in the US. This seems a bit trivial amidst all of the other very important things we discuss and commemorate with days but I'm all for celebrating this one!
Life Success for Students with Learning Disabilities: A Parent's Guide. Teachers could send this to parents.
This website lets you create a timeline for your child but can also be used for children. When you use it, it creates a special email that lets you update their moment garden by sending to the email.
(Hat tip to Larry Ferlazzo for this gem) - put your pictures and house into the video and have a customized video created where Santa visits your house. Talk about a great way to excite the kids! So cool.
Although this was designed for summer, the list has a lot of ideas that parents can do with children over the break. While I do leave time for my kids to have a break, I do try to find things that will encourage their love of learning that I sneak in there kind of like sneaking vegetables into things without them knowing. Have a great break! Teachers might want to download and share with parents headed on break.
For our friends down under in Australia and the southern hemisphere who are on summer break, this is something you'll want to share.
The second part in the series for lifetime. It will be on my blog next week but if you read part one yesterday, here is part two!
Tips for parents to help their child with cyberbullying.
"Research suggests that between 10 – 20% of students will be a cyberbully at some poin"
Parent involvement is highly correlated with student success. Here is an overview of some meta analysis done through Harvard's school of education.
Apps are emerging like marble jar to help give children rewards and promote long term behavior improvements. This may work for some kids. I prefer the hug and kiss method myself. ;-)
Study finds 2 pneumonia bugs take the lives of 1 million+ children every year. Today's hot topic. http://tinyurl.com/lm4zkt #parenting
Social Media Saves Students - http://t.co/C2Kv9U5 via @Annie_Fox #edtech #edchat #youth #health #parenting
We've all see the parent too busy responding to text messages instead of hearing their child ask them a question. Which is more important?
The research from Stanford says that there is a danger not only to the parent: our ability to focus and accomplish tasks - but to the learning of our children and perhaps their inability to develop social skills.
Who is helping who? Who is in charge - are you at the beckon of every Tweet and message or are you in control of your own life? You decide.
in list: Cell Phones in Education
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Another Stanford study about to be published suggests it could be damaging tweens' ability to develop emotional and social skills.
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They found that people who juggle different sources of electronic information do not focus or remember as well as people who work on one task at a time.
For parents who want fun things for their students to do over the summer that will help students learn more and move forward in math and literacy skills - this is a website to check out.
"Students enter the tournament by going to www.DimensionU.com/SummerChallenge. Once registered (parental permission is required) they will compete in math- and literacy-based games for a chance to win gift cards and summer-related prizes like inline skates, inflatable pools, beach volleyball sets, or tents. Five lucky players will be randomly selected to win an iPod Nano each.
New this year is a social networking component that encourages students to build online “learning communities” of friends, family, community members, or even teachers – basically anyone who wants to help support the child’s academic efforts during the summer. Participants who earn the highest number of social network points in each tournament round will win prizes separate from those awarded for game play performance."
National PTA (the parents organization for public school parents in the US) has launched a webcast to communicate with parents.
Not sure where the podcast is, but it is probably linked here. It looks like a video. (It would be great to also rip the audio off and link as a podcast too, I think parents would find it useful.)
One thing this does do is legitimize the webcast for parents. You can say "Look parents, PTA is webcasting, it must not be evil." For the use of this tool, I applaud PTA.
I haven't listened to the webcast yet. Hope they turn it into to a podcast as my screentime is limited, but listen to things as I wash dishes and cook dinner (a nightly happening.)
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