I'm combing the web to bring you the nuggets that juice up teaching skills to electrify lesson and jolt critical thinkin' opportunities ....
.... no worries about your time .... it won't take hours to read thiese and grab some insights.
1. Segway inventor Dean Kamen highlights the flaws in American science education as he discusses how to use innovation in class rooms. Click Here.
2. The strong performance of Cleveland's schools using innovation schools are compared to other public schools citywide. Click Here.
3. The devastation of Hurricane Katrina four years ago brought with it many changes for this city, but perhaps its most enduring mark may be the new charter school system that came cascading in during the storm's aftermath. Click Here.
You can get thousands of free learning games resources here http://www.educationreporting.com/Education_Games.xml
Jack
Showing posts with label learning games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learning games. Show all posts
01 July 2009
RSS Feeds: Fun, Free, Educational
I just updated these two feeds. Both are full of free information to use in K12 classes.
Learning games: http://www.educationreporting.com/Education_Games.xml
Green Learning, which includes service learning resources: http://www.educationreporting.com/greenschool.xml
Share 'em with a friend. :-)
Learning games: http://www.educationreporting.com/Education_Games.xml
Green Learning, which includes service learning resources: http://www.educationreporting.com/greenschool.xml
Share 'em with a friend. :-)
27 March 2009
K12 means cloud computing and smart objects?
The New Horizon Project (2009) was released ....
It was full buzz concepts like ....
.......Collaboration environments (increasing since professionals are expected to work across geographic and cultural boundaries)
....Cloud Computing ...the emergence of large-scale “data farms”)
....Mobiles (cell phones)
....Geo-stiff.(good ole GPS)
.....the Personal Web. ( desire to reorganize online content rather than simply viewing it)
.....Smart Objects. (aA smart object “knows” something about itself — where and how it was made, what it is for, where it should be, or who owns it, for example — and something about its environment.)
But the only this I really can apply to a k12 class that I ever taught were the challenges identified ....
...There is a growing need for formal instruction in key new skills, including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy.
....Schools are still using materials developed decades ago, but today’s students come to school with very different experiences than those of 20 or 30 years ago, and think and work very differently as well.
....Teachers are expected, especially in public education, to measure and prove through formal assessment that our students are learning, including collecting and measuring data. But, exiting systems are not capable of managing and interpreting real time information flows on the scale that is anticipated.
The challenges I can relate to 100%. I also get that collaboration environments (Project Based Learning) work to help students assimilate knowledge ... but I don't see the other technology trends impacting K12 classes .... do you?
Cheers Jack
PS - read the report here: http://www.educationreporting.com/2009-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf
Learning Games - thousands of K12 games in all content areas
Ed Tool Directory
Earn Extra Cash - Help K12 Education - work from home part time
Green Education Resources - resources for ecology and project learning
It was full buzz concepts like ....
.......Collaboration environments (increasing since professionals are expected to work across geographic and cultural boundaries)
....Cloud Computing ...the emergence of large-scale “data farms”)
....Mobiles (cell phones)
....Geo-stiff.(good ole GPS)
.....the Personal Web. ( desire to reorganize online content rather than simply viewing it)
.....Smart Objects. (aA smart object “knows” something about itself — where and how it was made, what it is for, where it should be, or who owns it, for example — and something about its environment.)
But the only this I really can apply to a k12 class that I ever taught were the challenges identified ....
...There is a growing need for formal instruction in key new skills, including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy.
....Schools are still using materials developed decades ago, but today’s students come to school with very different experiences than those of 20 or 30 years ago, and think and work very differently as well.
....Teachers are expected, especially in public education, to measure and prove through formal assessment that our students are learning, including collecting and measuring data. But, exiting systems are not capable of managing and interpreting real time information flows on the scale that is anticipated.
The challenges I can relate to 100%. I also get that collaboration environments (Project Based Learning) work to help students assimilate knowledge ... but I don't see the other technology trends impacting K12 classes .... do you?
Cheers Jack
PS - read the report here: http://www.educationreporting.com/2009-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf
Learning Games - thousands of K12 games in all content areas
Ed Tool Directory
Earn Extra Cash - Help K12 Education - work from home part time
Green Education Resources - resources for ecology and project learning
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