Nancy Jones's List: engaging students

• Technology should be like oxygen, Bellow said, quoting Chris Lehmann, the founding principal of Science Leadership Academy: Ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible.

• ocial-networking site Edmodo, which is designed specifically for use in schools.
• controlled environment
• eacher sets the parameters and can see everything, and there's no messaging solely between students
• who owns the material that students post
• Gaggle,
• Gaggle, for instance, allows a student to join only at the invitation of a teacher, does not allow students to have private conversations, and has filters (originally developed for school email systems) that block inappropriate language, sense bullying or threatening references, and feature a scanner that detects pornography.
• "interactive environments" rather than social networks
• ePals social-networking site.
• heir writing is so much more improved,
• online forum
• Gaggle typically costs schools and districts about $5 a year p
• ePals offers some services for free
• foreign languages,
• Livemocha
• Jamboree for Arts Camp & Music,

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• We’re 15 years into something so paradigm-changing that we have not yet adjusted our institutions of learning, work, social life, and economic life to account for the massive change.”

   

  “We are right on time to give up techno-phobia and to tackle the problems and opportunities of the digital world with good sense, pragmatics, realism, and purpose,” Davidson said. “Once we absorb the realization that we’ve already changed, and that we’re actually doing pretty well despite major realignments in our lives, then we can think about how we want to take this amazing new tool [the Internet] and use it in a way that better serves our lives. It’s time to

• How effectively do children’s after-school assignments advance learning?
• Enriching children’s classroom learning requires making homework not shorter or longer, but smarter.
• understanding and improving the ways in which children absorb, retain and apply knowledge.
• Spaced repetition”
• when we first acquire memories, they are volatile, subject to change or likely to disappear. Exposing ourselves to information repeatedly over time fixes it more permanently in our minds, by strengthening the representation of the information that is embedded in our neural networks.

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