Children's Technology Workshop Children's Technology Workshop's programs encourage your child to explore, invent and create. We focus on the development of high-quality curriculum, software and children's programming. We teach classroom workshops - School Groups; run seasonal and summer technology day camps - icamp; host technology workshops - Workshop Club; and deliver Parties and Special Event programming. Owned and operated by people who share your neighbourhood. - Involve activities both on and off the computer. - Attractive to girls and boys. - Run year round at numerous locations. - Focus on engineering & robotics, video game creation, graphic design and digital art, animation and digital video production, and early literacy programs. Creative thinking can be your child's greatest asset.
Classroom 2.0 edWeb: A professional online community for educators Edu21: un repte per a tots, una responsabilitat compartida - Edu21 AMA (AmerMedicalAssn) Introducing Seeding Reading: Investing in Children’s Literacy in a Digital Age Today’s children are surrounded by digital media of all kinds. How will they ever learn to read? That question is at the heart of Seeding Reading: Investing in Children’s Literacy in a Digital Age, a new series of articles and analysis brought to you by New America’s Education Policy Program and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. Over the next six months, we will be exploring early education and parenting initiatives that are harnessing new technologies; scrutinizing the marketplace of digital “reading” products; and highlighting new research that may illuminate how communications technologies and digital media are affecting the learning of reading, the act of reading, and the reading brain, in both good ways and bad. The intersection of technology and reading is already populated with intriguing writing about teen and adult readers, whether it is by Clive Thompson in his new book Smarter Than You Think or Nicholas Carr in The Shallows. As Wolfe writes the end of her book:
Health News (HealthHive) Bill Gates talks education tech Bill Gates has been taking online classes for years. Now, he thinks it's time to make sure a whole lot more students do the same. Today, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is announcing a new multiyear grant program that will give millions of dollars to those with novel ideas on how to use technology, and in particular online courses, to improve education. The Next Generation Learning Challenges are aimed at both funding new ideas and getting various groups to partner and expand on some of the good ideas that are being tried out, but only at small scale. But with all of the problems facing education, can technology really make that big of an impact? Gates seems to think so. "What's surprising is given how the Internet has changed how we buy airline tickets and books and how we look up things, is that formal education hasn't changed hardly at all," Gates said. Online classes can be a big part of the solution, particularly at the college level, Gates said. There's the idea of the hybrid.