Browse: Anibal Pacheco - Video Collection. Tech Tales: Marco Torres on Empowering Students Through Multimedia. Marco Torres, a social studies teacher and technology director at San Fernando High School, explores how the creation of multimedia projects empowers his students, as well as those who participate in the San Fernando Education Technology Team (SFETT). 1. You’ve been a teacher for five years now, but you started in politics. Why did you switch professions? I felt that working in politics gave me the proper skills to establish relationships to help schools out. I didn't think schools took advantage of elected officials enough to try to bridge together all the different resources available for its schools. Back to top 2. San Fernando's an old immigration city.
Like many Mexican immigrant towns, it struggles financially. 3. As Latinos, our history traditionally has been told through dance, through song, through literature, like poetry for example, through the arts, murals, through stories that our ancestors told. 4. Whenever we do any project in my class, there's a process that takes place. Browse: Anibal Pacheco - SIDLIT 2012. Who Owns the Learning?: Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age: Alan November: Amazon.com. TTS Demo. PowToon : Create Animated Presentations Online. Marc Prensky's Weblog: Verbs vs. Nouns. Exercise | Brain Rules | Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power. The human brain evolved under conditions of almost constant motion.
From this, one might predict that the optimal environment for processing information would include motion. That is exactly what one finds. Indeed, the best business meeting would have everyone walking at about 1.8 miles per hour. Researchers studied two elderly populations that had led different lifestyles, one sedentary and one active. So researchers asked: If the sedentary populations become active, will their cognitive scores go up? Exercise improves cognition for two reasons: Exercise increases oxygen flow into the brain, which reduces brain-bound free radicals. Read the introduction | Brain Rules |
Go ahead and multiply the number 8,388,628 x 2 in your head. Can you do it in a few seconds? There is a young man who can double that number 24 times in the space of a few seconds. He gets it right every time. There is a boy who can tell you the exact time of day at any moment, even in his sleep. The brain is an amazing thing. Your brain may not be nearly so odd, but it is no less extraordinary. This has strange consequences. Blame it on the fact that brain scientists rarely have a conversation with teachers and business professionals, education majors and accountants, superintendents and CEOs. This book is meant to get you into the loop. 12 brain rules My goal is to introduce you to 12 things we know about how the brain works.
The Brain Rules Bonus DVD, included with the book, and interactive tutorials at www.brainrules.net are an integral part of the project. . • For starters, we are not used to sitting at a desk for eight hours a day. . • Ever feel tired around 3 o’clock in the afternoon? Aníbal Pacheco • Instructional Technology Solutions. Marc Andreessen. Clay Shirky's Internet Writings.
From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning (9781452230092): Marc R. Prensky. Marc Prensky.