Helicopter Parents: Leave Your Kids Alone. | PrincipalsPage The Blog Our society has come to believe we can control our children’s futures by controlling every aspect of their childhood. tags: Parents, Education Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Study: Children Who Blog Or Use Facebook Have Higher Literacy Levels A research by The National Literacy Trust on 3,001 children from England and Scotland showed that schoolchildren who blog or own social networking profiles on Facebook have higher literacy levels and greater confidence in writing. tags: blogging, social-network, literacy mong the key findings were that 56...
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As our fourth COETAIL course (Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy) here at ISB is drawing to a close. The students (33 teachers at our school) have one more course to complete next semester. The last hurdle in getting their certificate. The last course calls on them to overhaul one of their units...
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Influence Makers | Remote Access “The Royal Society has placed online 60 of the most influential papers published in its 350 years of scientific history. They have called the site Trailblazers.” tags: remoteaccess Do You Make These 10 Mistakes When You Blog? tags: blog, blogging Seth’s Blog: Getting meta “Information about information might be worth more than the information itself.” tags:...
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Well….maybe not yet, but in the coming year if you are a private or international school you better be monitoring and using these new social tools to engage new students and families. A Bloomberg report came out earlier this week titled: One Bad Twitter ‘Tweet’ Can Cost 30 Customers, Survey Shows. A negative review or comment...
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So maybe I’ve been reading to much Lifehacker lately. But I got to school this morning and some how got thinking about how I could hack-up the Google Doc Application that you get from Google when you install Google Gears to work with our school educational Google Apps domain. So here are the steps on...
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Still creating ‘word walls’ around your classroom?  Good for you – that’s exactly what needs to be done to create constant and progressive exposure to vocabulary.  Here are some examples of our evolving digital forms of word walls and vocabulary building tools.  Firstly, here’s an animated/spoken word wall that was built on visuals that...
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It’s about time for us to democratize the creation of ‘web apps’ for everyone – including students and teachers.  Runtime Revolution have just such an offering for teachers and students in their latest release of ‘RevMedia‘, which provides a web application development program for FREE on all major platforms – Mac, Windows, & Linux....
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Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown – NYTimes.com “A task force created by 49 state attorneys general to look into the problem of sexual solicitation of children online has concluded that there really is not a significant problem. “ tags: safety, nytimes, children, report Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Tomorrow I have the honor of presenting at our school PTSA meeting which is solely going to be centered around one topic: technology. I love it when topics are so broad. Really, we could talk about anything and everything under the sun. What scares me a bit is that we...
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