C.C.T. TEACHERS-Kids 6-12 Years
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Kickboard: a data driven instructional application for teachers by teachers.
Kickboard is designed and supported by educators who've been there – in today's classrooms, trying to make do with yesterday's tools. Kickboard goes far beyond traditional gradebooks and do-it-yourself spreadsheets: Kickboard pinpoints students' strengths and skill gaps and highlights how behavior impacts academic achievement. Kickboard creates a paradigm shift around the use of data.
Gerard LaFond is the VP of marketing for Pearson’s College and Career Readiness division and the co-founder of Persuasive Games. He’s currently working on the gamification of education through the Pearson start-up, Alleyoop. Kids spend hours a day on sites like Facebook and YouTube. They play highly immersive video games, watch engrossing shows on their HDTVs and interact with apps on their mobile devices. All of this is in stark contrast to how they spend their days at school, where educators lecture and write on blackboards, then ask kids to read boring textbooks and practice abstract skills or memorize obscure facts. The cycle of lecture, test and repeat is not the best way to engage kids.
Why Education Needs to Get Its Game On
Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com
If you have a child entering grade school this fall, file away just one number with all those back-to-school forms: 65 percent. Chances are just that good that, in spite of anything you do, little Oliver or Abigail won’t end up a doctor or lawyer — or, indeed, anything else you’ve ever heard of. According to Cathy N. Davidson, co-director of the annual MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions, fully 65 percent of today’s grade-school kids may end up doing work that hasn’t been invented yet. The contemporary American classroom, with its grades and deference to the clock, is an inheritance from the late 19 th century. So Abigail won’t be doing genetic counseling.
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How To Motivate Your Child To Learn
Motivating children to learn Motivating your child is like baking a pie. Certain ingredients are needed, including planning for what you want to accomplish each week, involvement with your children to get these things done and enthusiasm to keep your children encouraged to learn.Met Homo Zappiens schreef Wim Veen een ode aan de jeugd van tegenwoordig. ‘Zappen’ is een werkwoord met een doorgaans negatieve connotatie. Wie zapt, is oppervlakkig, snel verveeld, niet bereid ergens moeite voor te doen en heeft een attention span van een seconde of dertig. Opvoeders die zich zorgen maken over ‘de jeugd van tegenwoordig’ maken er graag gebruik van. Onzin, zegt Wim Veen , in het dagelijks leven hoogleraar Educatie & Technologie aan de TU Delft.
Homo Zappiens door Wim Veen (Boek) - ISBN 9789043017091 - Managementboek.nl
Internet past als tweede huid - Internet & Media - VK
Door Geert-Jan Bogaerts − 18/08/09, 07:27 ‘Homo Zappiens’ is in opkomst. Hij denkt in beelden, communiceert voortdurend op internet en heeft maar even aandacht voor één onderwerp.
Back to School : Got a new interactive whiteboard? | The Whiteboard Blog
So it’s mid-August and for many teachers the new school year has begun and for others it’s not too far away. Some of you will be starting at new schools and with that there’s a chance that you’ll be coming to terms with a new interactive whiteboard. You may already be familiar with whiteboards already, and are just starting at a school with a different brand. Photo Credit : Library Cart by Sweetjessie
Troy Williams is Vice President and General Manager of Macmillan New Ventures, the global media company’s division that discovers, develops and markets innovative technologies that make learning more engaging. It’s not revelatory that the academic and the tech worlds move at vastly different paces. Education often lags behind when it comes tech adoption and integration.
