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Top Cafes By Location In Singapore - Best Cafehopping List. Having put together different articles on the Top Cafes in different parts of Singapore, coming up with this ultimate cafehopping list is like a dream come true to me.

Top Cafes By Location In Singapore - Best Cafehopping List

With the cafe culture booming in Singapore and dozens of cafes opening up every month, it is close to impossible to promise the most 'accurate' list of best cafes across the island. We will do our best to keep it updated to aid your cafehopping adventures. Have fun and hope you find the list useful. Central Singapore - City Hall & Jalan Basar. Teaching Respect and Responsibility — Even to Digital Natives.

“We’re about to give your fourteen-year-old a computer,” Michael Allen recently told a group of parents attending a new student orientation, “and here’s why it could scare you.”

Teaching Respect and Responsibility — Even to Digital Natives

Then Allen, the principal of no-textbook New Tech High School, said he understood their biggest fears — the new sites and technologies that crop up all the time, kids multitasking while doing schoolwork, the reality of parents’ lack of control over what their kids see and how they behave online. One Teacher Lets Students Prove They’re Trustworthy With Devices. School administrators are looking to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies as a way to bring technology resources in the community to bear in the classroom when there is little funding for classroom devices.

One Teacher Lets Students Prove They’re Trustworthy With Devices

In a recent series, MindShift has been examining how three different teachers in three completely different communities — urban, rural, and immigrant — are dealing with BYOD issues, including trust, equity, and what happens when teachers try to put student-centered learning in the hands of students who’ve never experienced it. Meet a teacher who’s ready to shift responsibility to her students: (Read Part 1: Trust, Equity, and Student-Centered Learning With Fourth-Graders, and Part 2: Access to Technology For Immigrant Students) Part 3: Mutual Trust Helps BYOD Work.

Guide to the Best Homeschooling and Unschooling Resources. Getty Overwhelming.

Guide to the Best Homeschooling and Unschooling Resources

That’s the word you hear when you ask homeschooling parents about the resources available to them today. The homeschooling and unschooling movements, along with the open-education resource movement, have led to a wealth of free or low-cost and high-quality material available, especially online. Inquiry Learning Vs. Standardized Content: Can They Coexist? By Thom Markham As Common Core State Standards are incorporated from school to school across the country, educators are discussing their value.

Inquiry Learning Vs. Standardized Content: Can They Coexist?

It may seem that educators are arguing over whether the CCSS will roll out as a substitute No Child Left Behind curriculum or as an innovative guide to encourage inquiry rather than rote learning. 8 Tips and Tricks to Redesign Your Classroom. Editor's Note: Author David Bill is a designer and educator who consulted with The Third Teacher+ on the Remake Your Class project highlighted in the videos below.

8 Tips and Tricks to Redesign Your Classroom

The tips in this post go along with the companion video. We are excited by the simplicity (and low price tag!) Of this great redesign. Hope you'll share any of your own tips in the comments area below. If you're thinking of completing your own classroom remake project, good for you. The tips below can be used for smaller scale remakes right way. Whether you are looking to reorganize one corner or redesign the entire room, here are eight tips that may help you throughout the process. What Students Really Need to Hear. It’s 4 a.m.

What Students Really Need to Hear

I’ve struggled for the last hour to go to sleep. But, I can’t. Yet again, I am tossing and turning, unable to shut down my brain. For Students, the Importance of Doing Work That Matters. Teachers’ Most Powerful Role? Adding Context. Lenny Gonzalez Part 3 in the series Learning In the New Economy of Information.

Teachers’ Most Powerful Role? Adding Context

By Shawn McCusker During a recent unit on World War II, Courtney Wilhelm’s U.S. History class conducted a leader’s conference. Students explored broad topics such as economic and political philosophies from the perspective of European leaders from the 1930’s and 1940’s. Engaging our students to the end SmartBlogs. It’s test time!

Engaging our students to the end SmartBlogs

The majority of our students are currently involved in high-stakes, year-end standardized testing. They are going through rigorous reviews and even test-taking practice as if the year’s learning is effectively over. As a principal of a large, inner-city K-8 school, I was proud that our students were engaged and excited about learning until the very last day of school and even into the holidays. Their teachers challenged them to engage in projects that would make a difference. What Students Really Need to Hear. 10 things parents should never say to their kids. For Students, Why the Question is More Important Than the Answer.

Thinkstock In a traditional classroom, the teacher is the center of attention, the owner of knowledge and information.

For Students, Why the Question is More Important Than the Answer

Teachers often ask questions of their students to gauge comprehension, but it’s a passive model that relies on students to absorb information they need to reproduce on tests. How Children Have Become Their Parents’ Bullies. Fulltext/2006_KBTheory.pdf. Files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ910451.