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online learning information april 2010
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Created on Apr 10, 10
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This is a collaborative space for collecting resources to be used in the K12 classroom:
MILPITAS, Calif. — When Kevin Jenkins wanted to teach his fourth-grade students at Spangler Elementary here how to use the Internet, he created a site where they could post photographs, drawings and surveys.
t began innocently enough--Lucy was trying to play with mommy's laptop, I thought maybe she'd like to see some pretty pictures on the computer, and I'd been meaning to check out the latest SecondLife viewer (I haven't been using SL much at all lately). Together, we arrived in Iowa (virtual Iowa) to see what's new at Dr. Z's place in world. A few minutes later, my 2.5 year old daughter had figured out how to walk, turn and fly in a virtual world. What just happened?
CENE : It is deep in the past, schools are using chalk and slates, stylus and tablets, chisels and granite. Suddenly a new technology appears:
About the EVOKE game
Posted by Alchemy on 27 Jan under Behind the scenes
EVOKE is a ten-week crash course in changing the world.
It is free to play and open to anyone, anywhere.
The goal of the social network game is to help empower young people all over the world, and especially young people in Africa, to come up with creative solutions to our most urgent social problems.
his is a guest blog written by my 16-year-old son. He’s a sophomore, and currently plans on majoring in Game Design. He’ll be back from time to time to offer the perspective of a high school student on education. Please leave feedback by commenting on the post – we’d both love to hear what you have to say.
FrontPage
Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity
A Call for Education
Elizabeth Gilbert: A Different Way to Think About Creativity
Dave Eggers: Once Upon A School
Teaching Children "I Can"
Gaming for Education and Social Good
Teaching Children About Food
Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight into the brain
Open Source: A Source of Sharism
This section contains more than 200 ready-to-use training games and activities. Most of them were published in the Thiagi GameLetter.
If you like these games and activities, please visit the endorsers' area to leave your comments. Thiagi may use these comments as blurbs for his future publications.
1. Abstracts
Basic idea. For three rounds, different teams read and analyze a research report and prepare an abstract. During the fourth round, each team comparatively evaluates three different abstracts of the same research report.
Reading materials. Research reports, experimental studies, or scholarly articles.
Bienvenido(a) a Aula 2.0.com, la red social para aquellos que están interesados en la Web 2.0 y los Medios de Comunicación Social en educación. Lo(a) animamos a inscribirse (sign up) para participar en discusiones, foros, recibir notificaciones de eventos, encontrar y conectarse con sus colegas.
StudyCast is a podcast created to help the students of Room 34 review for their Social Studies and Science tests. Basically, a StudyCast is an audio review session recorded by Mr. Coley for his students. These broadcasts are not intended to replace traditional studying, but rather to provide an additional study aid. You can listen to broadcasts right here on mrcoley.com or in iTunes. If you're looking for a way to study on the go, download a broadcast, then burn it to a CD or transfer it to your iPod.
A clip from Channel 11 in Colorado Springs regarding the use of video podcasting (vodcasting) at Woodland Park High School. This is the brainchild of Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams who teach at WPHS and also run a educational consulting busniess.
34 items | 1 visits
online learning information april 2010
Updated on Jan 11, 15
Created on Apr 10, 10
Category: Schools & Education
URL: