Google for Education: Computational Thinking (CT) is a problem solving process that includes a number of characteristics and dispositions. CT is essential to the development of computer applications, but it can also be used to support problem solving across all disciplines, including math, science, and the humanities. Students who learn CT across the curriculum can begin to see a relationship between subjects as well as between school and life outside of the classroom. CT involves a number of skills, including: These skills are supported and enhanced by a number of dispositions or attitudes that include: Confidence in dealing with complexity Persistence in working with difficult problems Tolerance for ambiguity The ability to deal with open ended problems The ability to communicate and work with others to achieve a common goal or solution See our Computational Thinking Concepts Guide for a printable version of this list, along with teaching tips for each concept.
Woman’s lifelong dream to honour mom on The Price is Right marred by cyberbullying TORONTO — When 30-year-old Shawna High walked onto the set of The Price is Right in Los Angeles earlier this year, she never thought she’d be the subject of international criticism for mistakenly thanking her friends in “Canadia.” But she says that after facing blowback from the media and people around the world online, her critics need to understand the full story. “I arrived that morning super excited, nothing was working in my favour; I was late, parked in a tow zone to run across the boulevard to make the gate,” she said, adding that she then met two Canadian women and chatted with them as they waited in line. “We got to know each other, we talked, I told my story of why I was there and I eventually had everyone surrounding me rooting for me to be a contestant on the show.” Family connection In 1981, High’s mother went on The Price is Right as a contestant and was one dollar away from winning a car in one of the show’s games, called Lucky $even. Canadian support ‘Canadia’ catastrophe
A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults Tomorrow is the 55th anniversary of the premiere of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. But instead of doing the usual content about Edward Albee, I thought I’d serve up a different (extremely cold) take: a brief and incomplete selection of moments that remind us how certain people really should have been afraid of Virginia Woolf, because she was full of epic—and sometimes kind of horrible and classist—insults. Writers, of course, make the worst enemies. Other than insane dictators with long-range missiles, I guess, so whoops on that, America. Oh well, at least we can make ourselves feel a little bit better by reading all of the very mean things Woolf wrote in her diary about other people. “Pale, marmoreal [T.S.] On Freud: “A screwed up shrunk very old man: with a monkey’s light eyes, paralysed spasmodic movements, inarticulate: but alert.” “I am reading Point Counter Point [by Aldous Huxley]. Yesterday the Granta said I was now defunct. On E.M.
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Insanity In Education: Making The Same Mistakes Insanity In Education: 52 Mistakes We Make Over And Over Again by Terry Heick The context for this one is simple enough–what mistakes do we constantly make in education that hold us back from the best versions of ourselves? From realizing our collective potential as a construct, field, and industry? Probably a lot, but 52 is enough for now. Forget learning should be fun.Stigmatize failure.Think of children like little adults.Gamify compliance to institutional policies instead of social change and disruptive creativity.Place students on the periphery when we design, plan, and respond to their learning. The Definition Of Insanity In Education: 52 Mistakes We Make Over And Over Again
Going global with Book Creator Wouldn’t it be good if schools from across the world could collaborate on a project…? Meg Wilson is a special education teacher and assistive technology specialist, as well as being an Apple Distinguished Educator since 2011. She blogs at iPodsibilities.com, IEAR.org, and EdReach.us about special education and mobile learning devices, app reviews, and other resources for educators. Meg hosts the MacReach podcast on EdReach.us, where she talks all things Apple each Thursday night. Redefining teaching and learning As a technology integrator for Avenues: The World School, I am constantly searching for technology tools that will allow students and teachers to redefine teaching and learning in a way that is personalised and accessible to a range of abilities. It is important that I find tools that allow for both creativity and collaboration. Collaboration made easy with Book Creator The Global iBook >> Download the Global iBook for free from the iBookstore
“Three Strategies to Power Your Self-Directed Learning” by @zslayback The most important skill for a young person today is learning quickly and effectively. Since the Great Recession, nobody buys the false impression that you can get a credential after studying for four years, land a job, and then have a career with the same core set of skills over your entire life. Even professional career tracks like medicine and law are under outside economic and technological pressure to change and adapt at a faster pace than ever before. The idea of school and college teaching you the skills you need to succeed is so laughable today that it is considered a joke among employers. This holds true even in an entry level job. Those who master this skill become captains of their fate. These are three effective strategies for self-directed learning, taken from my upcoming book, The Little Guide to Learning Anything and learned from some of the most successful self-directed learners I’ve met and studied. Get Early Access to the Little Guide to Learning Anything 1. 2. 3.
What Is Your Learning Style? What Is Your Learning Style? This quiz asks 24 questions and will take less than five minutes to complete. Try not to think too hard -- just go with your first thought when describing your daily activities and interests. By the end, you may have some new insights into your learning preferences. Editor's Note (2013): There is no scientific evidence, as of yet, that shows that people have specific, fixed learning styles or discrete intelligences, nor that students benefit when teachers target instruction to a specific learning style or intelligence. However, providing students with multiple ways to learn content has been shown to improve student learning (Hattie, 2011). Actualización Docente Siglo XXI: “#Twitter en el Aula Flip” por SMBerdaxagar Lograr que los alumnos: Accedan a temas gramaticales en inglés a partir de terceros sitios y a redes sociales horizontales y verticales. Interpreten citas extraídas de twitter referentes a canciones y a textos de celebridades y anónimos internacionales en inglés. Creen nuevas frases de expresión de temas universales desde su subjetividad y las difundan. Citas memorables o ingeniosas sobre temas universales.
Richell prize: Sam Coley wins literary award for 'captivating' road trip tale #RichellPrize @h… Sam Coley has won the 2017 Richell prize for emerging writers for his novel about siblings dealing with grief while road-tripping along New Zealand’s main highway. Coley’s manuscript, titled State Highway One, stood out among 579 entries to win $10,000 prize money and a year-long mentorship with Hachette Australia. For the first time in the prize’s history, the judges have also awarded a high commendation and a 12-month mentorship to a second writer from the shortlist of 20, to Michelle Barraclough for her novel As I Am. The Richell prize was established in 2015 to assist emerging writers of adult fiction and narrative nonfiction and is awarded to unpublished writers of any age. The prize is judged blind, and writers who submit do not need to have finished the manuscript. Coley’s novel follows twins as they come to terms with grief and confront their past while driving State Highway 1, which runs the length of New Zealand. … we have a small favour to ask.
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