Exploring YouTube's education channels. Teachers are posting their lessons online in fun educational videos that draw-in tech-savvy kids who love multimedia.
NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports. YouTube is usually associated with the latest viral video, but now growing numbers of people are turning to the video-sharing website for education instead of entertainment. Teachers are broadcasting lessons online, everything from biology to foreign languages -- and for some, this online "classroom" is more inspiring than the confines of brick and mortar. Below, check out some of the most popular channels on YouTube EDU. Steve SpanglerYouTube was only five months old when this former teacher first taught viewers how to turn a bottle of Diet Coke and a roll of Mentos into an exploding geyser. Rob TarrouWhat started off as a way to help students at St. Alex DainisAlex Dainis is "a biology nerd, music lover, film geek.” Paul AndersonPaul Anderson started creating videos for the students in his class several years ago. The mind business. Yoga, meditation, ‘mindfulness’ – why some of the west’s biggest companies are embracing eastern spirituality ©Paul Shambroom General Mills, the company behind Cheerios cereal and Häagen-Dazs ice cream, is headquartered on a leafy expanse outside Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Enclosed walkways connect a network of modernist buildings, protecting Midwestern workers from heat and humidity in the summer, and bitter cold and towering snowdrifts in the winter. Inside the halls, some 3,000 people work on everything from product development and marketing to litigation, regulation and mergers and acquisitions. The employee base is generally reflective of middle America – predominantly white, casually dressed and possessing a genial, if hard-working, disposition. Yet there are signs that in some significant ways, General Mills has a distinctly unusual corporate culture. This isn’t some passing fad sweeping middle management, or a pilot programme dreamed up by human resources. Case Studies. School Success-the New Tech Network Rubric. How should we measure the success of a school system?
For the last few decades, the states have wanted to see high achievement on standardized tests. Parents want a safe school and a successful student ready for college and career. The local newspapers like it when the sports teams are winning. We could measure the success of a school in literally dozens of ways, from cost per pupil to dropout and attendance rates. But what would happen if we chose to focus on student success as the sole measure of a school’s success? That’s exactly what the New Tech Network has done with our re-imagined School Success Rubric. One of the things that distinguish highly successful schools is what the students experience while on campus … in short, the culture of the school.
Connected · Students have positive relationships with adults and peers in the school community and feel a sense of belonging. · Students feel empowered to contribute positively to the community and take on leadership roles. Engaged Skills. A Year at Mission Hill. Re-imagining school. Case Studies. Turning Around Turnaround: Real-World Examples - Rick Hess Straight Up. UserID: iCustID: IsLogged: false IsSiteLicense: false UserType: anonymous DisplayName: TrialsLeft: 0 Trials: Tier Preview Log: Exception pages ( /edweek/rick_hess_straight_up/2012/10/turning_around_turnaround_real-world_examples.html ) = NO Internal request ( 198.27.81.81 ) = NO Open House ( 2014-04-16 22:47:54 ) = NO Site Licence : ( 198.27.81.81 ) = NO ACL Free A vs U ( 2100 vs 0 ) = NO Token Free (NO TOKEN FOUND) = NO Blog authoring preview = NO Search Robot ( Firefox ) = NO Purchased ( 0 ) = NO Monthly ( c5641793-b1fb-9e77-1ff4-00e279dab5e9 : 3 / 3 ) = NO 0: /edweek/inside-school-research/2013/01/little_numbers_add_up_to_big_d.html 1: /ew/articles/2011/07/13/36iste.h30.html.
In Fieldston School Course, All of New York’s a Classroom.