MyPlate Activities for Kids, Free Printable MyPlate Coloring Pages, Fun Healthy MyPlate Food Worksheets for Teaching Kids Healthy Food Printables My Plate The My Plate is a very easy way to help children understand how their plate should look. With My Plate it serves as a visual cue to children that there is a place on their food for every food group. Free Kids' My Plate Healthy Tips, Coloring and Activity Sheets Use these pull-down menus to filter the list of printables Displaying 1-20 of 57 free printables that matched your criteria. My Plate Colors Of The Food Groups My Plate page that teaches children about the foods belonging to each colored section of the My Plate. Published: Nov 08, 2011 Grades: PreK-5 Ages: 0-13 My Pyramid Food Group Healthy Serving Size Sheet Colorful informational printable to teach children about what is a serving from each of the food groups. Published: Jul 13, 2011 Grades: 3-5 Ages: 9-13 Printable - Balance Foods And Activity My Plate Tip 1 My Plate has 10 key messages to help children eat healthier foods and make healthy choices. Published: Aug 09, 2011 Ages: 5-13 Grades: K-5
Finally...You Tube Education If you haven't heard You Tube Education officially launched today. It's actually been around for a few weeks but today was the unavailing of the site and the announcement of major content partners. First, a video: So basically as as district or school you can (if your filtering allows) unblock just the subdomain of You Tube Education, have access to the content there while keeping the rest of You Tube blocked for end-users. I had the pleasure of talking with James Sanders, the project manager today about the vision for this and some things coming down in the future. You can search by Category (K-12, Higher Ed, or my favorite, Life-Long Learning). Now, remember, this is a beginning. So head over to You Tube Education and check out the great stuff there and if your district blocks You Tube perhaps you can suggest they check it out too.
Scientific Learning The iPad® and Student Engagement: Is There a Connection? April 1, 2014 by Carrie Gajowski When students at ACS Cobham International School (UK) got iPads, Richard Harrold saw an opportunity. Harrold decided to find out. Harrold's study confirmed the benefits of iPads in schools: iPads benefit learners of different ages, sometimes in different ways iPads have special benefits for learners in the very early grades The iPad makes typing easier for 1st and 2nd graders More generally, results indicated that: iPads improve student engagement “iPad buddies” collaborate more iPads boost perseverance The effects discovered were more than a reaction to a fun, new “toy.” These findings are exciting, especially for learners requiring intervention. In a time where “grit” is getting a lot of attention as a key indicator of future success, anytime that perseverance goes up – as with iPad use – educators would be wise to take notice. References: Harrold, R. (2012). Harrold, R. (2012). Related reading: False!
21st-Century Learner The 21st-century learner is here–is your classroom ready? By Mark Stevens NEA members attending this year's RA got a look at technology that could transform teaching and learning in their classrooms.Photo by Calvin Knight No one sees more clearly than educators how the technologies we use in our daily lives influence how students learn. Students have changed, educators have changed, learning itself has changed. And learning tools have evolved accordingly. Yet the typical physical building where all that learning takes place has remained largely the same over the last 100 years. Learning environments aren’t revolutionized by installing a few cool gadgets here and there. NEA Executive Director John I. It’s up to educators to find the best ways to integrate technology in fulfilling curriculum requirements, but many useful technologies are available off the shelf, some even for free. What does this 21st-century classroom look like? Look around and you’re likely to see: Joseph Cicero Toni C.
Damming the River Thinking Foundation 5 Myths about mobile learning [and how to overcome them] Photo by stefg74 Here are some common mLearning myths I regularly come across in English language teacher training – and some myth-busting lesson plans. Myth 1: Mobile learning means learning via texting with mobile phones Mobile phones (or cell phones) are just one of the myriad devices that can be used for learning. Myth 2: Mobile learning means ‘learning on the move’ This is one of the most common definitions of mobile learning I hear. *Thanks to Neil Ballantyne for alerting me to this theory, which states that all learners will have a long bus ride to work/school in which they will want to look at flashcards or similar Myth 3: Mobile learning means learning with apps Another common misconception. access video rich content reviewing mobile phones, and thenproduce their own audio reviews via mobile devices,which peers and teacher can then comment on. Myth 4: Mobile learning means content delivered in ‘bite-sized’ chunks This relates to Myth 3 above. What about you?
21st century education Revised August 2008. Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It . . . Like Alice, many educators, policy makers and even the general public respond resoundingly with "That's impossible!" when challenged to adopt a new paradigm of education for the 21st century. Most people today adhere to a paradigm of education that is strictly 19th century. Web 2.0 and new Social Communities Dr. What is 21st century curriculum? What does all this mean for how we design and build schools? 1. References Kellner, Douglas; New Media and New Literacies: Reconstructing Education for the New Millennium Grant, Jodi, Director of the After School Alliance; Fourteen Million Kids, Unsupervised McLeod, Scott, Dangerously Irrelevant Time, Learning and Afterschool Task Force, A New Day for Learning Belasco, James A., Teaching the Elephant to Dance, 1991 Wesch, Michael, Ph.
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