Ginger Lewman's List: Life Practice

" In a time when connections can seem like commodities and online interactions can become casually inauthentic, mindfulness is not just a matter of fostering increased awareness. It’s about relating meaningfully to other people and ourselves. With this goal in mind, I’ve compiled a list of 10 tips for using social media mindfully. "

"A Career Cluster is a grouping of occupations and broad industries based on commonalities. The 16 Career Clusters organize academic and occupational knowledge and skills into a coherent course sequence and identify pathways from secondary schools to two- and four-year colleges, graduate schools, and the workplace. Students learn in school about what they can do in the future. This connection to future goals motivates students to work harder and enroll in more rigorous courses."

For teachers hoping to infuse multimedia into their classrooms, YouTube makes for an excellent starting point. Plenty of universities, nonprofits, organizations, museums and more post videos for the cause of education both in and out of schools. The following list compiles some of the ones most worthy of attention, as they feature plenty of solid content appealing to their respective audiences and actively try to make viewers smarter.

We have developed this Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Tutorial based on excerpts from our PBL Starter Kit and highlights from our PBL 101 Workshop.  This tutorial will help you share resources with your colleagues, provide professional development and technical assistance opportunities, and offer tools for improving your practice.

Some "projects" border on busywork. Others involve meaningful inquiry that engages students' minds.

Collaborative games, zip lining, and classroom aikido are part of a new physical education movement that makes kids smarter.

Themed high schools can be charters, magnets, or traditionally governed. What they all have in common is an enrollment process open to all students in the district, usually by lottery, to ensure that schools like Bravo don't cream the crop (though it is true that, by dint of applying, students and their families may indicate a higher motivation and sophistication about making educational choices).

The Wolves' Lair is a range of resources for New Zealand students to gain an appreciation of, and practical experience in, preparing and pitching a business idea.

The delivery of the programme includes:

Teacher and student resources including this web portal, case studies, cross-curriculum education tools and resources and assessment criteria.
Teacher professional development through a series of workshops that will assist you by explaining how to implement the programme.
In-class processes where students take an idea they want to pursue and develop a business plan.
Pitching the idea, where teachers recreate a 'Dragon’s Den' environment. Students use the tools and resources to develop and refine their business ideas
The ‘real deal’ where each school has the option to select 1-2 ‘real’ business ideas to be entered into a regional final. The winners from each region will compete at the national final where an overall winner will be selected. At regional level the Wolves will consist of National Bank Managers and local successful business people. The National final will include high-profile business people who may invest in any ideas they believe to be viable. In addition to any investment, a series of prizes provided by the organisations involved in the project will be allocated to students.

How Big Really

Career academies and pathways have now been around long enough that researchers and educators have a good handle on what works best. These 10 tips draw on the expertise of the California Department of Education, ConnectEd, MDRC's research report, and many teachers and administrators in the Elk Grove Unified School District and at Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School.

Talk. Listen.TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.
Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.

A bone health campaign for girls and their BFFs to "grow strong together and stay strong forever!"

Want to know your learning style? Take the quiz. There are 24 questions, and it will take less than five minutes to complete. Try not to think too hard -- just go with your first thought when describing your daily activities and interests. At the end, you'll find out more about how you learn.

Sample education grant -- good tips here for filling out the real thing.

You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.

But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android's text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud.

To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior.

In a digital world, the question is not whether you will leave a mark.
The question is, "What kind of mark are you leaving?"